Health And Safety Manager

Principal People; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

Principal People is recruiting a Regional Health and Safety Manager for a client based in Wakefield, Yorkshire. This multi-site, on-site role focuses on leading HSE culture and continuous improvement across locations.

You will engage senior stakeholders, embed a proactive safety culture, assess risks, investigate incidents and drive safety programmes. NEBOSH Diploma and sector experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma is essential.
• Experience in a high-risk sector such as manufacturing, logistics, waste and recycling, or engineering.
• Operational safety experience.
• Experience leading a health and safety team.
• Collaborative, personable with drive and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive cultural change across health, safety and environment across multiple sites.
• Oversee HSE compliance across all sites.
• Ensure risk assessments and safe systems of work are maintained and reviewed.
• Develop, implement and monitor safety action plans and compliance programmes.
• Manage accident, incident and near-miss reporting with thorough investigation and follow-up.
• Embed a proactive safety culture and be visible across locations.

Skills

NEBOSH Diploma

Team management

Collaborative communication

Behavioural safety

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Job description

Regional Health and Safety Manager - Logistics - Wakefield, Yorkshire - £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits Package

Principal People are excited to be working exclusively with a growing organisation who are looking to appoint a Regional Health and Safety Manager.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Health, Safety and Environmental professional to take ownership of a multi-site role, driving both cultural change and continuous improvement across multiple locations.

The successful candidate will join a market leading business that is growing steadily and places health, safety and environmental at the heart of its operations. This is an on-site, operationally focused role with the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders.

The key duties include:

• Leading and driving cultural change across health, safety and environment.
• Managing HSE compliance across the sites
• Ensuring risk assessments and safe systems of work are in place and regularly reviewed
• Developing, implementing and maintaining safety action plans and compliance programmes
• Managing accident, incident and near-miss reporting, ensuring thorough investigation and follow-up
• Able to embed a proactive safety culture across the business
• Being visible and operational throughout the locations and champion behavioural safety

Why should you apply for the role?

• Opportunity to lead HSE with great scope across the business
• The opportunity to progress to a Head of Health and Safety position in the years to come
• High levels of autonomy to make positive change, backed by engaged senior leadership
• A varied role covering multiple sites, each with challenges
• A chance to make a real difference within the company
• A wide variation within the company's risk profile

We would love to see CVs from people who have

• NEBOSH Diploma certificate

• Experience within a higher risk industry sector such as Manufacturing, Logistics, Waste and Recycling, Engineering etc.

• Experience within an operational safety environment
• Someone who has managed a team in a health and safety setting

• Someone who's collaborative who can communicate well, is personable with drive and resilience.