HSEQ Manager

Ramboll; Southampton; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consultancy firm in the UK is seeking an HSEQ Manager to lead health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives. The role involves implementing HSEQ strategies, ensuring legal compliance, and promoting a positive culture across the organization. Candidates should have significant experience in health and safety leadership, internal and external audits, and management systems to ISO standards. This position requires travel across the UK and offers the chance to impact core business decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Health and Safety leader essential.
• Internal and external audit experience essential.
• Experience implementing management systems to ISO standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive a proactive and positive HSEQ culture.
• Lead national HSEQ strategy.
• Oversee legal compliance and incident reporting.

Skills

Health and Safety leadership

Internal and external audit experience

Management systems implementation

Effective communication

Relationship building

Education

Degree (or equivalent)

NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)

Membership in relevant professional body (e.g., IOSH)

Job description

Overview

Ramboll has an exciting opportunity for a HSEQ Manager to join our UK and Ireland Business Unit. Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company with a significant presence in the UK and Ireland. We are a top ten engineering, environmental, and sustainability consultancy in the UK, employing over 1,800 people across 16 offices across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland. Ramboll blends British engineering expertise with its Nordic heritage, focusing on sustainable solutions. We are committed to sustainable and responsible business practices, emphasizing environmental and social responsibility across a wide range of business areas, including:

• Buildings
• Transport
• Energy
• Water
• Environment and Health
• Landscape and Architecture
• Management Consulting

What you\'ll be doing

As our new HSEQ Manager, you will lead the development and implementation of a proactive and positive HSEQ culture in our UK & Ireland operations, with a strong focus on health, safety and wellbeing. You’ll be part of our Business Operations department, reporting directly to the Head of Business Operations, with a dotted line to the Group HSEQ Director, and you will be a member of the global HSEQ community.

This role goes beyond compliance—you’ll shape how HSEQ is perceived and practiced both internally and externally. You will be a visible, trusted leader with the presence to influence across all levels of the business. You’ll work independently to drive key processes while fostering collaboration with our global network and UK & Ireland business areas. This role can be based anywhere in the UK, but it will involve some travel. You’ll play a central role in a growing, global HSEQ community, with the opportunity to impact core business decisions and build strong cross-functional partnerships.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Driving a proactive and positive HSEQ culture that aligns with national laws, ISO standards and best practice
• Leading and coordinating national HSEQ strategy in collaboration with global business area and Group teams
• Overseeing legal compliance, incident reporting/investigations and liaising with external agencies as needed
• Chairing the national HSE/Work Environment organisation and promoting wellbeing initiatives
• Coordinating onboarding, HSEQ training, internal audits, performance reporting, and inspections
• Developing business cases and presentations to support continuous improvement and strategic alignment
• Implementing the UK & Ireland integrated management system and its ISO certification, and contributing to crisis management planning

To do so, you will need to:

• Empower people to deliver excellence across the various UK & Ireland lines of business
• Build strong working relationships with the UK & Ireland Executive Leadership Team, Business Area HSE leads and HQ
• Liaise with and report to Group on all HSEQ matters, collaborating as part of the global HSEQ community
• Produce KPIs and reports making recommendations for improvement, reporting to both the UK & Ireland Executive Leadership Team and HSEQ Leadership Team at Group level on a regular basis
• Promote and improve the HSEQ performance across the UK & Ireland, providing guidance and expertise to the business and project teams regarding HSEQ issues
• Maintain consistently high and legally compliant standards of Quality, Environment, Health, Safety and Wellbeing within the organisation
• Manage direct reports in the UK & Ireland HSEQ team, and lead the wider UK & Ireland HSEQ community
• Travel to offices in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Experience as a Health and Safety leader essential
• Internal and external audit experience essential (IRCA lead auditor certificate preferred)
• Experience of implementing management systems to ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
• Available to travel across the UK (role involves frequent travel)

Education and Professional Qualifications:

• Educated to degree standard (or equivalent)
• NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)
• Member of a relevant professional body, eg. IOSH

Personal Qualities:

• Ability to build good relationships with colleagues at all levels of the business
• Ability to communicate and engage effectively at Executive Director level
• Passion for health, safety and wellbeing, and ability to engage colleagues on the subject matter
• Proven ability to deliver results within tight deadlines
• Collaborative approach to working as part of a wider team
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.