Head of Health & Safety

Eurofins; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading laboratory services provider in Wolverhampton seeks a Head of Health and Safety to ensure a safe and efficient working environment across its various sites. Responsibilities include developing health and safety strategies, leading a dedicated team, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have a NEBOSH or IOSH qualification, strong leadership skills, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. This role offers competitive benefits and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption Pay

Company Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Free car parking

Career development opportunities

Access to Perkbox

Qualifications

• Relevant health and safety qualifications are required.
• Proven experience of leading and managing a health and safety team.
• Ability to converse on all levels and manage change processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe, healthy, and efficient working environment.
• Develop and implement health and safety strategies.
• Lead and coach the Health and Safety Team.

Skills

Health and Safety management

Strong leadership

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Team management

Education

NEBOSH certification or IOSH

Job description

Working hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm. This is a hybrid working role.

The successful candidate will need to be within a commutable distance to our Wolverhampton site ideally no more than 1 hour away for operational needs. We also require flexibility of the candidate to travel across the UK to our Eurofins sites dependent on business needs.

The role purpose for the Head of Health and Safety is to ensure a safe healthy and efficient working environment across all our Food and Water Testing sites. This role will also have some involvement with our Facilities department.

This leadership position involves strategic planning implementation and management of health safety and facility-related programs policies and initiatives.

The Head of Health and Safety is responsible for maintaining compliance with all relevant regulations enhancing workplace safety culture and optimising our site facilities.

• Develop and implement comprehensive health safety and facilities management strategies aligned with company goals.
• Determine the strategic direction and work priorities (in conjunction with line management) for the continuous improvement of our sites.
• Lead coach and mentor the Health and Safety Team.
• Lead the creation of policies procedures and programs to promote a safe and healthy work environment.
• Ensure compliance with local level group and UK specific health safety and facility legislation.
• Lead and mentor the health and safety team and facilities manager.
• Maintain and develop a culture of safety accountability and continuous improvement within the team.
• Develop and manage emergency response plans.
• Oversee audits and assessments.
• Advise line management and assist with the implementation of new or existing SHEQ-related legislation.
• To complete prevention inspections on a regular basis and ensure records maintained of same.
• Investigate incidents and accidents conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Develop and enforce safety policies and training programmes.
• Support where needed HR Director / HR Team with any necessary actions relating to health and wellbeing initiatives to promote employees well-being.
• To develop a monthly SHEQ Communication Strategy for all sites and levels of staff.
• Advise line management in Labs Office and on Site of health safety quality and environmental matters.
• Facilitate all forms of risk assessment.
• Monitors the sites permit-to-work system to ensure compliance with Company standards.
• Manage budgets for the health safety and facilities activity.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH certification or IOSH will be required to fulfil this role.
• Strong H&S / Facilities management knowledge.
• People management skills - proven experience of leading, managing and coaching a H&S team.
• Experience leading and managing Health Safety and Facilities.
• Team management experience.
• Must be able to converse on all levels and manage change processes.
• Must be self-motivated and show a passion for health & safety.
• Flexible regarding working hours to support needs of the business.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to travel to sites.

Benefits

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme 24 / 7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out the daily coffee or a summer holiday theres something to suit everyones lifestyle.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do so its incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit youll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data

As part of any recruitment process the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity being an Equal Opportunity Employer . We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and / or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025 through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Employment Type: Full-time