Health and Safety Manager

Cheryl's Cookies; Wentworth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known manufacturing business in South Yorkshire is seeking a Health and Safety Manager. This role focuses on designing and implementing a comprehensive H&S management system while ensuring compliance with UK legislation. Successful candidates will have proven experience in H&S leadership, especially in manufacturing, along with a NEBOSH Diploma. This is a unique opportunity to lead change and foster a proactive safety culture within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Health & Safety role within manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Proven track record of building or improving H&S frameworks.
• Ability to work without a fully formed blueprint and make decisions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing the Health & Safety management system.
• Leading risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Ensuring compliance with UK H&S legislation.
• Embedding a proactive safety culture.
• Investigating incidents and driving corrective actions.
• Delivering training and coaching to teams.
• Preparing for audits and inspections.

Skills

Proven experience in Health & Safety leadership

Strong working knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation

Confidence to influence change

Ability to balance compliance with operational realities

Education

NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)

Job description

Futures recruitment are working for a well known manufacturing business in South Yorkshire. We are looking to appoint a Health and Safety Manager to work on a large single site. This is not a “steady-state” Health & Safety role — it's an opportunity for a proven professional to build, influence and embed a robust H&S framework from the ground up. There are challenges to address, legacy practices to improve and systems that need designing rather than inheriting. For the right person, this is a chance to leave a lasting mark, shape culture and be recognised as the architect of change.

The Role

As Health & Safety Manager, you will take full ownership of the H&S agenda across the manufacturing operation. You'll work closely with site leadership and operational teams to create structure, consistency and accountability, while maintaining a pragmatic, commercially aware approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing the full Health & Safety management system from scratch
• Leading risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work across manufacturing operations
• Ensuring compliance with UK H&S legislation and relevant industry standards
• Embedding a proactive safety culture, influencing behaviours at all levels of the business
• Acting as the subject-matter expert and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
• Investigating incidents, identifying root causes and driving sustainable corrective actions
• Delivering training and coaching to upskill managers and frontline teams
• Preparing the business for audits, inspections and continuous improvement initiatives

What We're Looking For

This is a hands‑on, sleeves‑rolled‑up role. We're looking for someone who is comfortable working without a fully formed blueprint and confident making decisions.

You Will Likely Have

• Proven experience in a Health & Safety leadership role within a manufacturing or industrial environment
• A track record of building or significantly improving H&S frameworks and processes
• Strong working knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation
• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) – essential
• The confidence to challenge constructively and influence change
• A pragmatic mindset — able to balance compliance with operational realities

Resilience, curiosity and the appetite to work through complexity