Head of Health & Safety (with Environmental & Quality Oversight)

Brellis Recruitment Ltd; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Head of Health & Safety in Coventry. This hands-on leadership role involves overseeing health and safety across warehouse and engineering environments, with a focus on cultural and behavioral improvements. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in logistics or warehousing, NEBOSH qualifications, and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary, car allowance, and the chance to make a significant impact within a global business.

Benefits

Car allowance

Bonus

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Significant experience in logistics, warehousing, engineering, or field service operations.
• Experience in managing environmental permits and ISO9001 compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Health & Safety across various environments.
• Improve culture and engagement with teams.
• Oversee RAMS, SSoWs, PUWER/LOLER, and safety measures.
• Support field engineers and manage mobile worker safety.
• Deliver training and implement behavioural-safety improvements.
• Lead investigations and corrective actions.

Skills

Strong Health & Safety background

Confident communicator

Experience with PUWER and LOLER

Behavioural improvement

Education

NEBOSH minimum; Diploma or IOSH status desirable

Job description

Head of Health & Safety (with Environmental & Quality Oversight)

Mansfield, Coventry + travel

£60,000 – £65,000 + £7k car allowance + bonus

This is a hands‑on Health & Safety leadership role. ~70% H&S, ~20% Environmental, ~10% Quality.

Best suited to H&S Managers / Leads from logistics, warehousing, engineering or field‑service operations.

Our client is a global supplier to retail and logistics operations. You’ll lead H&S across a busy warehouse, a national team of field‑service engineers, a small recycling operation and shopfitting project teams.

This role is all about workforce engagement, behavioural improvement and practical H&S leadership — not sitting in an office writing policies.

What you’ll do

• Lead Health & Safety across warehouse, logistics and engineering environments
• Improve culture, communication and engagement with teams and supervisors
• Oversee RAMS, SSoWs, PUWER / LOLER, machinery safety and contractor control
• Support field engineers and mobile workers (lone working, client sites, vehicle safety)
• Deliver training, toolbox talks and behavioural‑safety improvements
• Lead investigations and implement corrective actions
• Manage environmental permits and basic ISO9001 compliance

What we’re looking for

• Strong Health & Safety background in logistics, warehousing, engineering or field service
• Confident communicator who can influence shopfloor teams
• Experience with PUWER, LOLER and machinery / warehouse safety
• NEBOSH minimum; Diploma or IOSH status desirable
• Environmental experience beneficial
• Comfortable travelling between sites

Why apply?

• Senior H&S leadership role
• Large operational scope
• Global business
• Strong package + car allowance + PMI
• Opportunity to drive real cultural change

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