Regional Health & Safety Manager, GB&I
Description
Position Title:Regional Health & Safety Manager, GB&I
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 45399
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
As Health & Safety Manager for GB&I, you'll play a critical role in creating safer workplaces across our four manufacturing plants and business functions.
This is more than a compliance role. You'll be a trusted partner to leaders across the region, helping shape our safety strategy, strengthen our culture, and drive continuous improvement. You'll work across diverse teams and operations to ensure our people go home safe every day while enabling sustainable business performance.
You'll lead the deployment of health and safety programmes, influence senior stakeholders, identify and reduce risk, and ensure we continue to meet both regulatory and McCain standards across the region.
What You'll Be Doingz.
You'll be responsible for:
- Leading the implementation and continuous improvement of Health & Safety management systems across the GB&I region
- Driving a proactive safety culture by coaching, challenging and supporting leaders and teams
- Ensuring compliance with local legislation and international standards, including ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 9001
- Monitoring safety performance, analysing trends and turning insights into meaningful action
- Identifying risks and implementing preventative and corrective measures
- Leading internal and external audits and ensuring robust follow-up of actions and commitments
- Overseeing incident investigations and root cause analysis to support learning and continuous improvement
- Providing expert guidance on risk management and safety best practice to sites and stakeholders
- Partnering with global and regional teams to align safety priorities and standards
- Delivering clear reporting, recommendations and strategic insights to leadership teams
- Leading cross-functional initiatives that improve safety performance and strengthen operational excellence
What You'll Bring.
We're looking for an experienced Health & Safety professional who combines technical expertise with strong influencing and leadership skills.
You'll likely have:
- A degree in Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety or a related discipline
- Significant Health & Safety experience within manufacturing, food production or other industrial environments
- Strong working knowledge of health and safety legislation across multiple countries
- Experience implementing and improving Health & Safety management systems
- Proven knowledge of ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 9001 standards
- Experience leading audits, investigations and corrective action programmes
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to drive decisions
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to influence at all levels of the organisation
- Experience working within complex, matrix environments
- Proficiency with reporting systems and digital tools, including Excel
Benefits and Package.
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Private healthcare (single)
- Generous monthly car allowance
- An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
- 25 days' annual leave from day one plus bank holidays (increasing with service), giving you plenty of time to recharge with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year
- Life insurance cover providing peace of mind for you and your family
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, because the moments that matter outside of work matter to us too
- Medicash health cash plan, helping you claim money back on everyday healthcare costs, with access to a virtual GP and wellbeing support
- TELUS Health employee and family assistance programme offering full wellbeing support - including a 24/7 confidential counselling line, legal and financial guidance, and a range of employee discounts.
- Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme
- A paid 'Chips In' Volunteering Day, giving you the opportunity to support projects that make a positive impact in our communities
And because you're joining a global business, your career opportunities don't stop at the factory gate. Whether you're looking to deepen your expertise, step into leadership, or even explore opportunities internationally, we'll support your growth. With ambitious plans for the future, there's plenty of scope to develop your career with us.
About McCain.
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Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
AI & Digital Capabilities.
At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiousity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): GB - United Kingdom : England : Scarborough || GB - United Kingdom : England : Whittlesey
Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd