<div><p>Providing visible, risk-based HSE leadership across a multi-site UK estate, you will partner directly with Business Directors, Senior Operators, and General Managers. Your focus is to:</p><ul><li>Move teams from compliance to proactive safety ownership.</li><li>Embed our "See, Care, Share" safety culture.</li><li>Ensure safety, food hygiene, and allergen standards are integrated into everyday operational decision-making.</li></ul><h3>Food Safety & Hygiene Responsibilities</h3><p>Given the food-biased nature of our complex estate, you will guide our Operators to ensure high levels of food safety assurance across our catering operations. Your responsibilities include:</p><ul><li>HACCP & Management Systems: Oversee, implement, and maintain the Food Safety Management Plan and HACCP systems to ensure full legal and corporate compliance.</li><li>Allergen Control & Management: Enforce rigorous allergen management controls, ensuring strong communication to Operators to ensure robust application of policies.</li><li>Hygiene & Operational Standards: Ensure high standards of food hygiene, kitchen cleanliness, and temperature monitoring are maintained, driving consistency through proactive site assessments and audits and complaint responses.</li><li>Supply Chain & Traceability: Ensure strict adherence to approved food supplier policies, stock rotation procedures, and traceability protocols from delivery to service.</li><li>Auditing & Inspections: Conduct detailed, proactive internal food safety audits. Support local teams through EHO inspections and client assurance audits.</li></ul><h3>What Else Youll Do</h3><ul><li>Lead Culture Change: Champion a proactive, open safety environment. Support leaders to take personal accountability, building a culture of trust and openness.</li><li>Defence Governance & Compliance: Maintain and oversee the Workplace Safety Management System, ensuring all activities meet health and safety management plans.</li><li>Operational Risk Management: Maintain direct oversight of high-risk activities. Manage permit-to-work systems, temporary works, and contractor-controlled activities.</li><li>Incident Management & Learning: Lead investigations for food safety, health and safety, and allergen incidents, prioritising learning over blame. Ensure timely reporting.</li><li>Assurance & Performance: Deliver a robust assurance program. Track performance for leading and lagging indicators, ensuring continuous ISO 45001 / 14001 compliance.</li><li>Client & Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary HSE interface for clients during contract governance forums, performance reviews, and client assurance meetings.</li><li>Strong safety ownership and proactive engagement at all levels.</li><li>Swift tracking and closure of corrective/preventive actions.</li><li>A strong safety culture where the principles of See, Care, Share are applied.</li></ul><h3>What Were Looking For</h3><ul><li>Experience: Experience in an HSE role within complex, food-biased environments.</li><li>Influence: Proven ability to challenge unsafe behaviours constructively, coach teams, and hold operational leaders to account.</li><li>Culture: Positively demonstrate that people are the most important asset above all else.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications & Certifications</h3><ul><li>Food Safety Level 3, ideally 4 (Essential)</li><li>NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent (Essential)</li><li>Advanced understanding of HACCP principles and Allergen Management (Essential)</li><li>Ability to deliver role-relevant, targeted HSE and food safety training (Essential)</li></ul><h3>Benefits</h3><p>We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:</p><ul><li>Financial & Career: Contributory pension scheme alongside career advancement through our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes.</li><li>Health & Wellbeing: Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, wider healthcare benefits, and free wellness, mindfulness, and exercise classes.</li><li>Lifestyle Perks: Exclusive travel discounts (TUI, Expedia, Booking.com), food shopping discounts (Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons), and up to 44% off cinema tickets.</li><li>Share the Perks: You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families!</li></ul></div>