HSE Advisor

Job Description:

HSE Advisor

We are seeking a proactive and hands-on HSE Advisor to support the delivery of our health, safety and environmental strategy within a fast-paced food manufacturing site. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a highly visible, influential role and enjoys working closely with teams at all levels to embed a strong, practical safety and compliance culture aligned with BRC standards and food industry best practice.

Working closely with the HSE Manager, you will ensure that health, safety, environmental, and food safety interfaces are fully integrated into day-to-day production operations. This includes supporting alignment with HACCP principles, site hygiene requirements, and allergen controls, ensuring that safety and compliance form a core part of how the business operates. You will take ownership of your area of responsibility, balancing autonomy with collaboration, while ensuring that systems, procedures, and controls are robust, effective, and practical within a regulated food manufacturing environment.

HSE Advisor Personal Qualities

• A collaborative team player who is also comfortable working autonomously
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage their own workload effectively
• Focused on delivering practical outcomes, not just identifying issues
• Comfortable using initiative to complete tasks and drive improvements
• Pragmatic and straightforward in approach, keeping solutions simple and effective
• Resilient and persistent, able to adapt and overcome challenges
• Solutions-focused, with full ownership of their area of responsibility
• Confident communicator, able to engage with all levels of the organisation, from senior leadership to shop-floor operatives

HSE Advisor Skills & Experience

• NEBOSH General Certificate – essential
• IOSH qualification – essential
• Experience within a manufacturing or operational environment – desirable
• Strong working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation
• Practical experience implementing HSE systems and processes
• Confident in delivering training, toolbox talks, and safety briefings

HSE Advisor Key Responsibilities

• Support the HSE Manager in developing and implementing the company’s health, safety and environmental strategy
• Embed HSE principles into daily operations, ensuring consistency across all areas of the business
• Manage day-to-day health and safety activities, including reporting and investigating near misses and accidents
• Maintain a visible presence across the site, engaging proactively with employees
• Organise and deliver health and safety training, including toolbox talks
• Review, develop, and maintain risk assessments, safe systems of work, and specialist assessments, including COSHH, manual handling, DSE, lone working, young workers, and pregnant workers
• Conduct regular health and safety inspections and audits, preparing clear reports and recommendations
• Assist operational teams with incident investigations and root cause analysis
• Ensure injury and illness cases are managed through to closure using the incident management system
• Support the integration and effective use of health and safety management systems
• Recommend and implement appropriate control measures and provide guidance on PPE standards
• Work closely with engineering and operational teams to manage contractor health and safety procedures
• Support health and safety committees, First Aid and Fire Marshal meetings, and emergency planning scenarios

HSE Advisor Benefits and Hours of Work

• Salary up to £45k (DOE), Optional overtime. Bupa Healthcare Cashback plan, Pension scheme (5% you put in 3% by the employer), Death in service, Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme, Annual pay review (depending on performance and how the business has done), Annual family fun day, EAP programme, Christmas gift and voucher, Free parking and Free food

Unfortunately, due to time restrictions we cannot respond to every applicant, in the event that we haven’t contacted you within 48 hours please take it you have not been successful for this particular role, but your details will be kept on file and considered for all future vacancies.

We are an equal opportunities agency and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

We are acting on behalf of the client as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A NOT A SPONSORED JOB, ANY CANDIDATES WHO REQUIRE SPONSORSHIP OR ON A PSW WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.