Health & Safety Manager

EDF; Desford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Life assurance

Benefits platform access

Retail discounts

Job summary

EDF is seeking a Health & Safety Manager for the Desford site to champion SHEQ standards across the contract and partner with operational leaders, client stakeholders and specialist teams to foster a proactive safety culture. You will lead the safety agenda, provide coaching, investigations and risk management, and drive continuous improvement on a major UK infrastructure project.

The role is full-time, Mon-Fri, 37.5 hours, with a salary of £55,000–£65,000, 25 days leave, pension and life

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma qualified with extensive SHEQ management experience.
• Led SHEQ activities across multiple sites within logistics/warehousing.
• Strong leadership with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent incident investigations and risk management capabilities.
• Analytical mindset for SHEQ data interpretation and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the contract’s Health & Safety strategy, ensuring compliance with client, company, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide expert guidance and coaching to operational leaders, supporting continuous improvement in safety performance and culture.
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Analyse SHEQ data and trends to identify risks, opportunities and improvements across sites.
• Develop, implement and review safety management systems, SSOW, training programmes and annual SHEQ plans.

Skills

NEBOSH Diploma

Health & Safety management

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Incident investigation

Data analysis

Job description

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The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Are you a passionate Health & Safety leader with the expertise to drive a world-class safety culture? Can you influence senior stakeholders, operational teams, and contractors to deliver safety excellence every day? Do you have the experience and credibility to support one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects?

If so, this is your opportunity to join a project helping to shape the future of Britan’s energy landscape.

As a Tier One partner supporting Hinkley Point C, we provide critical warehousing and transportation services to one of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects. We’re looking for an experienced Health & Safety Manager to champion Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) standards at our site in Desford.

Reporting to the General Manager and Sector H&S Lead, you will lead the contract’s Health & Safety agenda, partnering with operational leaders, client stakeholders, and specialist teams to create a proactive, safety-first culture.

This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week, between the hours of 06:00 and 18:00.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary between £55,000 and £65,000 per annum depending on experience, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead and deliver the contract’s Health & Safety strategy, ensuring compliance with client, company, and regulatory requirements
• Provide expert guidance and coaching to operational leaders, supporting continuous improvement in safety performance and culture
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning to prevent recurrence and strengthen controls
• Analyse SHEQ data and trends to identify risks, opportunities, and improvement initiatives across multiple sites
• Develop, implement, and review safety management systems, Safe Systems of Work (SSOW), training programmes, and annual SHEQ plans

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• NEBOSH Diploma qualified (essential) with extensive Health & Safety management experience
• Proven experience leading SHEQ activities across multiple operational sites within logistics, warehousing, transport, construction, or industrial environments
• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent incident investigation, root cause analysis, and risk management expertise
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience interpreting and presenting SHEQ performance data

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low‑carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.