European Head of Health & Safety

True North Talent Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK seeks a Head of Health & Safety to shape and lead the HSE & Food Safety culture across multiple sites. The role demands extensive experience in senior health and safety management, particularly in the FMCG sector. Candidates with a NEBOSH diploma and a passion for compliance and continuous improvement will thrive in this environment that values talent development.

Benefits

Bupa membership

Discounts on health items

Death in Service

Pension contributions after two years

Staff shop discount

Qualifications

• Proven track record in a multi-site, senior Health & Safety role.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering outstanding health, safety, and environmental policies.
• Strong background in coaching and developing successful HS&E teams.

Responsibilities

• Championing HSE & Food Safety culture across sites.
• Driving continuous improvement through leadership and support.
• Collaborating with leadership to implement strategies and track metrics.

Skills

Leadership and coaching

Root Cause Analysis

Compliance with legislation

Continuous improvement

Education

NEBOSH diploma

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a passionate HSE & Food Safety professional to play a pivotal role in shaping culture, driving compliance and delivering best practice across multiple sites. The successful Head of Health & Safety will lead the Health, Safety and Environmental function in ensuring that our client’s European Business Unit processes, procedures and systems comply with legislation and company policies.

About You

• As the Head of Health & Safety, you will possess a proven track record in a multi-site, senior Health & Safety role, ideally within the FMCG industry or other fast-paced manufacturing.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and delivering outstanding health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• A strong background in coaching, management, leading and developing successful HS&E teams.
• A proven background of responsibility and accountability, setting high expectations and putting vision into context and links to team performance.
• You will possess a high level of expertise in Root Cause Analysis
• Your qualifications will ideally include a NEBOSH diploma, or relevant equivalent.

What will you be doing?

This critical role will involve, but not be limited to:

• Championing HSE & Food Safety culture: embedding ownership across sites, ensuring compliance with legislation and industry standards while striving for excellence.
• Driving continuous improvement: leading root cause analysis, simplifying frameworks and inspiring others to improve the way they work.
• Developing people & teams: coaching leaders, upskilling employees and empowering sites with the knowledge and confidence to deliver safely and effectively.
• Collaborating with leadership: partnering with European and site leadership teams to implement strategies, track metrics and deliver on commitments.
• Providing visible leadership: leading investigations, reporting and improvement initiatives, ensuring HSE remains a top priority at all levels.
• Travel between UK and European sites is required.

What can they offer you?

• Bupa membership with the option of buying cover for family members
• Access to Simply Health (offering discount on a range of health items)
• Death in Service
• Pension, with a rising contribution after two years’ service
• Staff shop discount
• Joining a company whose approach to sustainability is closely aligned to their ethos and values and through their people, partnerships, products and giving back.
• A culture where people develop and thrive, with many employees within their teams having over 25 years’ service under their belts

We are seeking applications from talented Heads of Health & Safety, H&S Managers, HSE Managers, Health & Safety Managers, Senior H&S Managers, EHS Managers and Environmental Health and Safety Directors, who live within North-East Scotland, Inverness, Aberdeen, Aviemore or who is open to relocation.

How to Apply

If you have the desired qualifications and experience, please send your CV quoting re ES/TNT/2064 or call 0161 399 1575 / 07564 579301 for a confidential discussion.

True North Talent is recognised as a trusted supplier of permanent, contract and interim recruitment services to the food manufacturing and FMCG industries. Our teams of specialist recruiters operate across food manufacturing Operations Jobs, food manufacturing Engineering jobs, food manufacturing Technical jobs, food manufacturing NPD jobs, food manufacturing Supply Chain jobs and food manufacturing Commercial jobs. We may hold your data, as per our privacy policy detailed on our website.

We are only able to consider candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we can only contact successful applicants.

For more information on True North Talent or to discuss how we can find talent for your business then please visit our website.