Background

Geary's are an entrepreneurial private bakery business based in Leicestershire supplying major retailers and foodservice customers. We have sales of £70m and aspire to be the UK's first choice for affordable high quality artisan bread at scale - unbeatable for Quality, Service, Innovation and Value-for-Money.

We have a proud and successful heritage stretching back 100 plus years, but we have a modern outlook and big ambitions. Geary's is run by Josh Wesson (Managing Director) with the assistance of Jason Geary who is the 4th generation master baker in the Geary family. Recently we received significant investment from the Unsworth Family to accelerate our ambitious growth plans.

We believe that great bread takes time and care. We specialise in sourdough-based propositions and long-fermentation where the time and care make all the difference to the taste. We have a passion to create great quality bread by integrating the best of traditional bakery skills and modern manufacturing methods.

The business has grown rapidly from £5m in annual sales to £60m in the last 13 years with strong and consistent profitability. We have an ambition to increase sales to more than £100m in the next 3- 5 years. A clear Vision and Strategy has been articulated and this is being backed with major capital investment and a renewal and upgrading of the people, processes, and systems.

We are a two-site business having opened our new £15m state of the art bakery in Glenfield in 2018 along with our facility at Barrow-upon-Soar. Each site has its own particular focus. In total we have just over 650 employees.

At its core, our business is remarkably simple, with 80 SKU's which includes 6 new sku's launching September 2023, 10 Customers, and around 125 differing raw materials/components. Although this is getting more complicated as we grow, keeping things simple is a fundamental part of our business approach.

Health, Safety and Environment Advisor

Personal Qualities

* Must be a team player and happy to work autonomously.

* Self-motivated and proactive can be left to their own devices.

* Focussed on delivering the tasks, not just identifying what should be done.

* Working on your initiative to complete and deliver.

* Simplistic approach. We like to keep things simple but effective.

* Persistent. If at first, you don't succeed. You will adapt and find a way to overcome.

* Solution focused, we are a small team, and you will have 100% responsibility for your area.

* Must have the ability to interact with all levels of people, from the board of directors to a new factory operative.

Geary's Values

Skills and Experience

• NEBOSH General certificate - Essential

• IOSH - Essential

• Manufacturing experience would be advantageous

Role Title:

HSE Advisor

Division:

Operations

Location:

Glenfield, Barrow

Reporting Structure:

Head of H&S

Working Pattern:

Mon - Fri, 40 hours per week

Overall Job Purpose:

* To assist Head of H&S with site Health and Safety & Environment strategy.

* To embed the above strategy within our organisation so it's at the heart of everything we do and is consistent across all areas of the business,

* To manage and co-ordinate our day-to-day Health and Safety tasks such as reporting and investigating near misses / accidents.

* To ensure you are visible across all areas of the business.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

* Organise relevant health and safety training for staff as required, including Toolbox Talks.

* Review and create risk assessments/SSOW's and special assessments as required by the business, including display screen equipment, manual handling, lone working, pregnant workers, young workers etc., COSHH risk assessments.

* Conduct health and safety inspections and prepare reports and documents as required.

* Carry out site inspections and report findings.

* Contribute to the review and revision of health & safety policies.

* Assist operations with Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis.

* Ensure injury and illness cases are effectively managed to closure through use of an incident management system (EOA)

* Assist with the integration of H&S organizer.

* To recommend & implement control measures and advice on the standard of P.P.E. issued to employees.

* Liaise with the Engineering to establish contractor health & safety procedures - hands on roll with contractors.

Assist with the H&S Committee, First Aid, Fire Marshal meetings and necessary scenarios