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Health & Safety Manager – Meat Manufacturing Site (Winsford)
We’re looking for a Health & Safety Manager to join our Meat Manufacturing Site in Winsford. This critical role will support the implementation of the Myton Health & Safety Strategy, ensuring compliance, driving culture change, and fostering a proactive safety lens across the organisation.
About the Role
The Health & Safety Manager will play a key leadership role in:
- Supporting the delivery of Myton’s Health & Safety Strategy – driving seamless compliance, fostering a positive safety culture, and embedding Health & Safety standards across the site.
- Collaborating with site leadership to ensure alignment with company policies, environmental regulations, and legislative requirements.
- Proactively improving safety performance through continuous audits, root cause analyses, and risk mitigation.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to support colleagues at all levels in maintaining safe working practices.
- Overseeing environmental management, permits, and authority engagements, including effluent controls and spill response.
- Leading investigations into accidents, near-misses, and incidents, ensuring robust action plans to prevent recurrence.
- Leveraging relationships with regulators, external consultants (legal, compliance), and other internal sites to share best practices.
Key Responsibilities
Compliance & Policy Holding
- Ensure full compliance with Health & Safety legislation, Myton policies, and operational standards.
- Monitor and update site management systems, including risk assessments, policies, and procedure documentation.
- Maintain audit trails for environmental, safety, and regulatory inspections.
Incident & Risk Management
- Conduct independent investigations of accidents, incidents, and whistle-blower concerns, presenting findings to relevant authorities (including HSE).
- Implement root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions to prevent repeat incidents.
- Escalate high-risk incidents for management review.
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Stakeholder Engagement & Culture
- Build trust and advocacy with colleagues at all levels, fostering a shared responsibility for safety.
- Coach and mentor stakeholders across sites, promoting best practice and aligning safety priorities.
- Present and embed safety-related key performance indicators (KPIs), improving audit scores and reducing accidents.
Training & Enforcement
- Ensure all colleagues receive mandatory Health & Safety training aligned with their roles.
- Sustain inconsistent safe working practices, workplace cleanliness, and environmental controls.
- Lead independent audits and follow up on corrective actions until completion.
Regulatory Liaison
- Interface with external partners (legal/environmental consultants) on behalf of the site.
- Resolve disputes with regulatory authorities via structured follow-ups.
- Support environmental compliance, including effluent testing, spill protocols, and emission controls.
About You
We’re seeking a Health & Safety professional with the expertise to:
- Drive a safety-led operational culture, particularly in FMCG manufacturing/logistics.
- Demonstrate industry-recognised qualifications:
- NEBOSH General Certificate (essential, with warehousing, logistics, or food manufacturing experience preferred).
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Excels in fast-paced environments with a focus on results and people development.
- Has a proven ability to build collaborative relationships and coach teams on safety best practices.
- Is self-motivated, independent, and skilled in risk assessment methodology.
- Has experience with supply chain-impacting risk, including potential damage to product/distribution.
- Understands the impact of unsafe behaviours on productivity and how to mitigate them.
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Benefits & Opportunities
For committed professionals who embrace the role, we offer:
- 6 weeks (including bank holidays) holiday entitlement.
- 15% store discount from day one.
- 10% Morrisons More Card discount for named individuals.
- Secure long-term career growth and internal training.
- Career rewards such as Long Service Recognition Awards and optional payroll donations to charities.
- Corporate wellness programme including:
- Subsidised staff canteen.
- Free parking and energy-efficient incentives.
- Access to Aviva Digital GP, enhanced maternity/parental leave, and healthcare benefits.
- MyPerks discounts for cinema shows, gyms, high-street shops, and much more.
- Market-leading pension scheme and personal cover.
About Our Company
From small beginnings to becoming the UK’s fourth-largest supermarket chain and second-largest manufacturer of fresh food, we take immense pride in delivering local, fresh produce to customers across the UK and beyond. Our commitment includes:
- 18 manufacturing sites, ensuring our flowers, fish, veg, bakery, and meat remains fresh for over 500 stores.
- 97,000 colleagues working harmoniously across distribution and supply chain operations.
- 11 million customers served weekly by a 2,000-strong fleet, all powered by a shared passion for serving communities.
Applications for this critical role should demonstrate your keen interest in food safety, health, and environment campaigns, combined with a willingness to lead safety culture change. If you see yourself in this profile, we’d love to hear from you.
Department: Sustainability – Health and Safety Salary: Min £55,00k -dependent on experience Location: Parsloes Meat Processing, Winsford All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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