Health Safety & Environment Manager

H&S / Environment | Leyland | Full Time | Permanent

Since our beginnings at Dr. Oetker, we have been breaking new ground. With pizza, cake, and desserts, as well as digital platforms and services – quality and an innovative spirit set us apart.

What awaits you? It's up to you! At Dr. Oetker, you can actively shape the future – both yours and ours. We want to be part of something bigger. Don't you?

JOIN THE TASTE.

Do you love pizza, and would you like to be part of the team that makes the UK’s favourite frozen branded pizza? Do you thrive on getting things done and making real change? Then carry-on reading!

Why join Dr. Oetker?

At Dr. Oetker UK we are continuously investing to maintain our state-of-the-art production facility. All our teams contribute to the success of our business, and we are as proud of our hard-working friendly culture as we are of the fantastic market leading pizzas we make. Being a family-owned business we “Create a taste of home” through our quality products and our culture.

Great news! We have a fantastic opportunity for Health Safety & Environment Manager to join our Health Safety & Environment Team.
We’re looking for someone to support the Head of Health Safety & Environment to promote and strengthen our existing health and safety culture. We are looking for you to have a passion for Health Safety & Environment combined with the necessary knowledge and ability that will enable you to inspire others to share your passion.

What’s the role?

The Leyland Facility is where the Chicago Town Pizzas started over 30 years ago. We are looking for a dedicated individual with a drive for continually improving processes to join our state-of-the-art production facility and play a key role working alongside our teams who are proudly making the Dr. Oetker and Chicago Town branded pizzas.

Being a key member of the HSE Team, with a direct link with the site wide team you will be responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of a site wide strategy to deliver a sustainable culture of excellence.

Safety is our number one priority and, working alongside our Leyland & Leeds teams your role will be to promote and strengthen our existing health and safety culture. A hands on role with an emphasis and passion for training and audit, we are looking for an enthusiastic, driven and detail conscious individual, combined with HSE knowledge and ability.

Who we are looking for?

At Dr Oetker we believe that our employees play a key role in our success. To help shape our future you will ideally be educated to a minimum of Nebosh Certificate with IOSH membership & desirably IEMA certificate and Nebosh (or equivalent) Diploma .

A confident communicator, presenter and influencer with internal and external stakeholders, you will have the ability to demonstrate a high level of energy and commitment necessary to ensure critical and statutory projects are completed on schedule and on time, alongside a proven track record of managing, delegating and inspiring others to take responsibility for HSE.

A proven ability to create and deliver in house training as well as internal audit skills and an understanding of ISO45001 & ISO14001 would be advantageous.

The ability to work within a rapidly changing environment is key, being able to maintain working to high standards whilst meeting short term time pressured goals alongside long term strategic objectives, demonstrating practical problem solving and resourcefulness with the ability to make key decisions.

Whilst this is predominantly a days based role, work outside core hours will sometimes be required due to the operating hours of the factory operations, as well as travel to our head office in Leeds and potentially internationally.

Liaising with key stakeholders, you will lead efforts to analyse key business drivers and identify, prioritise, plan and deploy improvement initiatives to drive sustainable business results

What We Offer 

Th position offers a competitive salary alongside many other benefits including;

• 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays) which increases with service
• Free Life Assurance at 4 times basic annual salary
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme (3% employee contribution, 6% employer contribution)
• Private medical insurance (BUPA)
• Health care Cash Plan Scheme (BUPA)
• Annual healthy heart MOT’s
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave
• Free pizzas
• Subsidised on site restaurant with hot and cold meals, a salad/deli bar, snack machines and microwaves and storage facilities for those who prefer to bring their own
• Free tea, coffee and fresh fruit.
• Free on-site parking
• Free Wi-Fi on site
• Employee Referral Scheme £350 – once you know how great it is to work here, you’ll want to bring your friends and family!
• Regular Employee Forums ensuring all employees have a voice
• Incentivised employee suggestion scheme
• Employee loyalty scheme recognising length of service milestones at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15 20 years and beyond!
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free eye test vouchers