Health & Safety Manager

The Collective Network Limited; Westry; On-site; GBP 49,500 - 60,500; Full time

Job summary

The Collective Network Limited is seeking a Health & Safety Manager in Cambridgeshire to lead the H&S function and drive the strategy from a blank page. You will own safety across the site and build a robust culture that goes beyond compliance.

With NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) and FMCG/food manufacturing experience, you’ll coach managers, improve near-miss reporting, and ensure audit readiness while defending safety standards with credibility.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) required.
• Experience in food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Ability to coach managers and lead safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Own the Health & Safety function and shape the strategy for the site.
• Coach managers to lead safety with credibility and confidence.
• Drive near-miss reporting and continuous improvement in safety culture.
• Ensure audits are prepared and the site is always audit-ready.

Skills

H&S leadership

COSHH

RIDDOR

DSEAR

PUWER

Near-miss reporting

Audits

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent

Tools

GxP awareness

Job description

Health & Safety Manager

Cambridgeshire

Up to £55,000

Most Health & Safety Managers spend their career maintaining someone else's system. This one's different: you'd be building it.

This Food manufacturerknows its H&S function has been ticking along but needs to go to the next level for their phase of growth, and they're doing something about it rather than just talking about it.

They're bringing in a newly created position Health & Safety Manager to own the function outright, part of the senior leadership team, and shape the strategy from a blank page rather than inherit someone else's half-finished plan.

You'd be the go-to person for everything from PUWER and COSHH to RIDDOR and DSEAR, but the real job is bigger than compliance. It's building a safety culture that people actually buy into, not one they tolerate because the paperwork says so. Coaching managers to lead safety with confidence. Getting near-miss reporting up because people trust the process, not because they're told to. Making audits a non-event because the site is always ready, not scrambling the week before.

You’ll need proper food manufacturing or FMCG experience, a NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent), and enough backbone to hold the line when it's easier not to. Chartered IOSH status would help, but attitude and credibility matter more than another letter after your name.

If you want a role where you're managing a spreadsheet, this isn't it. If you want one where you're genuinely trusted to build something and change how a site thinks about safety, get in touch