Safety, Health and Environment Director

Overview

As Safety, Health and Environment Director, you will shape the strategy and standards for an enlarged, multi-site organisation and lead a Centre of Excellence. You will drive a proactive safety culture, enable safe growth, and advise executive leaders on SHE risk, acquisitions and regulatory matters. Expect to lead transformation, integrate operations post-acquisition, and strengthen governance with regulators and stakeholders. This role offers strategic impact with hands-on influence across a large food-manufacturing network.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Car allowance
• Private medical cover
• Competitive pension contributions
• Life assurance

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the Group SHE strategy with clear standards and implementation plans
• Provide visible leadership for behavioural and cultural change across leaders and ops teams
• Establish group-wide performance, assurance, incident and risk management processes
• Interpret regulatory changes and ensure risks are understood and mitigated
• Advise executives on SHE risk related to business activity, growth, and due diligence
• Build and lead a high-performing SHE Centre of Excellence and broaden capability across ~130 colleagues
• Collaborate with governance stakeholders on regulatory processes, insurance risk, and claims management
• Represent Greencore with regulators and external bodies to enhance reputation
• Lead environmental aspects of the SHE agenda and support sustainability commitments
• Role based at Leeds Head Office with travel across UK network

Key requirements

• Senior enterprise-level SHE leadership experience in a large, complex, multi-site organisation
• Extensive senior SHE leadership experience in food manufacturing or a closely comparable high-volume, regulated environment
• Chartered status with IOSH (CMIOSH or CFIOSH) and up-to-date knowledge of legislation
• Proven track record in developing and implementing SHE strategy, standards and governance
• Experience leading large-scale transformation, including cultural change and standardization across disparate operations
• Regulatory processes, risk oversight, insurance risk and claims management experience
• Credibility to influence executive and operational leaders, regulators and external partners
• Strong communication, judgement and relationship-building skills
• Post-acquisition integration experience and environmental/sustainability strategy knowledge (valuable)

• strong communication
• relationship-building
• judgement
• SHE governance
• risk management
• regulatory compliance

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