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JOB TITLE: HSE Advisor
REPORTING TO: HSE Manager
DEPARTMENT: Operations, HSE
DIVISION: Gourmet
DATE WRITTEN: 17/12/2025
DEPUTY: N/A
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JOB PURPOSE:
To provide efficient and effective Health, Safety & Environmental support to the business ensuring the maintenance, implementation and development of Health, Safety & Environmental systems and processes.
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JOB CONTEXT:
Key people, departments and disciplines which the role interacts with.
Managing Self
- Sets a good example for the team
- Motivates team members
- Effectively delegates tasks to team members
- Willing to meet the needs of the business in terms of working hours and alterations to the role/duties
- Able to adapt to changing priorities
Treat People with Respect
- Uses varying methods of communication and communicates appropriately according to the recipient and the situation
- Communicates in a professional manner and is clear, concise and accurate
- Actively seeks to obtain and clarify information
- Is an active listener
Working Together
- Effectively communicates tasks and required standards to the team
- Builds positive relationships, promotes good morale and cooperation within the team
- Actively involved in daily review meeting and feeds back on areas of opportunity
- Knows and understands individuals within the team and shows respect for everyone
Works with peer group across shifts to resolve issues in the department
Key Relationships: Senior Supervisor, Manager, Safety Representative, Engineering
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JOB DIMENSIONS:
- Carry out workplace HSE Assessments, ensuring that they are carried out in line with legislation and updated and reviewed when necessary.
- Manage the records relating to the above assessments ensuring that they are complete and up to date at all times.
- Organise and assist in the reviewing of HSE risk assessments after accidents/incidents.
- Deliver in-house training, ensuring all relevant areas of HSE are conveyed via an appropriate medium i.e. language, handbooks, presentation etc.
- Liaise with the site HSE Manager in respect of updates and changes in the HSE policies and procedures.
- Assist in conducting full and thorough investigation of accidents that occur on site.
- Ensure all injuries, accidents, near misses and environmental incidents are recorded correctly and in their entirety in the appropriate books and documentation.
- Assist in carrying out internal HSE audits and inspections.
- Proactively promote awareness of HSE issues throughout the site.
- Liaise with Departmental & Section Managers, Team and Line leaders, Managers and Human Resources regarding new starters.
- Set and maintain matrices for all areas of the factory where required.
- Implement the Company’s Health Safety & Environmental policies.
- To deal with any queries or issues in the absence of the HSE Manager.
- Deliver on key performance indicators.
- Mentor and coach people in HSE awareness & activities.
- Improve processes and practices.
- Objectively assess the team’s performance.
- Ensure that all statutory (industry guidelines), legal, food safety & customer requirements are met.
- Ensure adherence to all standards and processes relating to CCP monitoring, glass, complaints, label verifications and other paperwork in your area.
- Maintain knowledge of relevant legislation, internal company policies and procedures, codes of practice, technical specifications, COSHH regulations and developments in H.A.C.C.P systems relevant to the department.
- Uphold good housekeeping and hygiene practices to ensure product safety, with particular attention to temperature control and general hygiene.
- Respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick ethical policies and codes of conduct when interacting with colleagues.
- Ensure that all staff have been given the appropriate level of training necessary to carry out their work within legislative and Health Safety & Environmental guidelines.
- Ensure that you understand and adhere to your personal responsibilities with regard the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990, company HSE policies, site safety rules, and procedures at all times.
- To identify hazards in the workplace and to take corrective action or initiate controls to minimise the risk.
- To effectively promote Health, Safety and Environmental awareness within your areas of control.
- Ensuring that all HSE information relevant to “preventative and protective measures” is communicated.
- Carry out activities with full awareness of their impact on the environment, both in terms of people and the local area
- Effectively manage energy and waste within the department.
Note that the list of duties is not exhaustive and is intended for guidance only.
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HEALTH & SAFETY:
- Ensure that you understand and adhere to your personal responsibilities with regard the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 or Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order SI 1978/1039
- Take reasonable care for your own and other's health and safety while at work and to Co-operate with your employer on health and safety matters.
- Anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare must not be intentionally or recklessly interfered with or misused.
- Ensuring all machinery under your control have had a pre-start safety check to include; machinery, lighting, flooring, fire escape routes & good housekeeping standards.
- Responsible for reviewing risk assessments and safe working procedures.
- Responsible to ensure that your direct staff have the relevant training to carry the tasks they are undertaking and Responsible for monitoring & reviewing staff behaviours, challenging unsafe behaviours / practices and correcting them. Coaching and mentoring your team through periods of change.
- Ensuring effective engagement on H&S matters with your direct reports and creating a forum for communication.
- Ensuring all relevant safety inspections are undertaken and documented as required and any defects / issues are resolved in a timely manner.
- Ensuring any corrective actions assigned to yourself are closed out within agreed timescales.
- Responsible to ensure compliance to company policies, procedures, site rules and information and instruction given by your employer.
- To respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick ethical policies and codes of conduct, when interacting with your colleagues at all times.
- To work in an Environmental and Energy efficient manner and to respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick Environmental and Energy policies and Second Nature principles.
- Where there are any Environmental Permit conditions in place, to ensure that where you have direct influence on these areas, then these are adhered to within the required limits.
To work in partnership with the Senior Management team on site to be part of the Culture of the site which drives Food Safety, H&S, Ethical, Environmental and Energy behaviours.
FOOD SAFETY:
To understand the importance of ensuring all statutory (industry guidelines), legal, food safety & customer requirements are met and ensuring staff under your supervision are aware of the roles they play in meeting these requirements & adhere to established company procedures at all times
Ensure adherence to all standards and processes relating to CCP monitoring, glass, complaints, label verifications and other paperwork in your area.
TRAINING:
To be responsible for ensuring the company commitment on training and development is met within all the factory operations by ensuring that the following criteria is met:-
- All staff within your area of responsibility are fully trained on the Machinery/Operation they are working on.
- All staff within your area of responsibility have the relevant Legal compliance training completed (in liaison with the Health & Safety, Technical and the training departments
People:
All employees must treat each other equally and with respect.
Environmental:
Cranswick Country Foods plc is committed to reducing the impact of its activities on the environment and in order to meet these commitments, all employees will be responsible for ensuring that environmental issues, arising from their own activities, are managed according to the legal requirements, the company’s environmental policy, procedures and general good practice.
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KEY RESULT AREAS/ACTIVITIES:
Key outputs of the role, e.g. Right First Time, Staff Absenteeism, Routine implementation of GMP within designated area, Product Quantity and On Time Delivery, Minimal Customer Returns.
- Actively promotes and communicates appropriate health and safety behaviours and environmental awareness
- Promotes and applies KPI improvement techniques and processes
- Ensures that the site is operating to the correct working standard
- Able to identify hazards and problems and take corrective action
- Closure of actions and non-conformances within agreed timescales
- Ensures all Accident/ Incident Investigations, Risk Assessments and Inspections are completed when necessary and to the required standard
- Ensures compliance to statutory and company requirements
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KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
Knowledge and skills required to fill the role e.g.
- Group and site Induction
- Level 3 in H&S. Either IOSH Managing Safely or Cranswick equivalent
- NEBOSH qualification or equivalent
- Ability to influence and achieve results through others in a fast-paced operational environment
- Experience in environmental is essential, ISEP (IEMA)/NEBOSH qualification an advantage
- Experience of working with HSE management systems
- All relevant risk assessments and safe working procedures are reviewed and to current methods
- Hazards and near miss reporting training
- Accident investigation training
- Computer literacy
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AGREED BY:
EMPLOYEE JOB TITLE:
MANAGER JOB TITLE:
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