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

Brellis Recruitment; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in logistics safety is seeking a Head of Health & Safety to oversee H&S across warehouse, logistics, and environmental operations. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a focus on workforce engagement, and must hold at least a NEBOSH General Certificate. This role offers a salary of £60,000 - £65,000 plus a £7,000 car allowance, bonus, PMI, and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Car allowance

Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

25+8 days holiday

Qualifications

• Strong leadership in logistics, warehousing, or multi-site work.
• Experience with PUWER, LOLER, and contractor management.
• Proven track record in environmental compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead H&S across various operational sectors.
• Drive cultural change and engage with teams.
• Conduct risk assessments and safety training.

Skills

Health & Safety leadership

Influencing teams

Understanding of PUWER

Environmental compliance

NEBOSH General Certificate

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Job description

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

Mansfield + UK travel (Coventry & field-based)

£60,000 £65,000 + £7,000 car allowance + bonus + PMI + 25+8 days holiday

H&S-led role: approx. 70% Health & Safety, 20% Environmental, 10% Quality.

Ideal for Safety leaders from logistics, warehousing, engineering services or multi-site operations.

Our client is a global leader supporting retail and logistics operations, including warehouse distribution, field-service engineers, recycling/processing and shopfitting project teams.

We re recruiting a hands-on Head of Health & Safety to lead H&S across these high-activity environments.

This is a practical, operational role focused on workforce engagement, coaching, culture change and improving safety standards across warehouse teams, van-based engineers and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

Health & Safety Primary Focus (70%)

• Lead H&S across warehouse, logistics, engineering-service and recycling operations.
• Drive culture change, improving engagement with supervisors, operatives and field engineers.
• Manage risk assessments, SSoWs, RAMS, PUWER, LOLER and machinery safety.
• Oversee H&S for mobile workers, lone working, vehicle movement and client-site activity.
• Deliver H&S training, toolbox talks and behavioural-safety initiatives.
• Lead accident/incident investigations and close out corrective actions.
• Support shopfitting teams and contractors completing retail installation work.

Environmental Secondary (20%)

• Maintain environmental permits and ensure compliance (waste, emissions, discharge).
• Conduct environmental audits, training and reporting.

Quality Light Responsibility (10%)

• Maintain ISO9001 compliance and coordinate internal audits.
• Support customer audits and service-quality improvements.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong Health & Safety leadership in logistics, warehousing, engineering, field-service or multi-site work.
• Proven experience influencing shopfloor teams, supervisors and remote workers.
• Solid understanding of PUWER, LOLER, machinery safety and contractor management.
• Experience managing environmental compliance or waste operations.
• NEBOSH General Certificate minimum (Diploma/Grad/CMIOSH desirable).

Desirable

• Experience maintaining an ISO9001 Quality Management System.
• Background supporting retail supply chain, distribution or engineering services.

People Fit

• Visible, confident on the floor, strong communicator.
• Pragmatic and solutions-focused.
• Able to build relationships quickly.
• Comfortable balancing safety with operational demands.

Also known as:

Head of HSE, H&S Manager, Senior HSE Manager, Head of Safety & Environment