Marine HSEQ Director

The Crown Estate; City Of London; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious marine organization is seeking a Marine HSEQ Director to provide strategic leadership for Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality across its Marine business. The ideal candidate will possess significant marine industry experience and lead the implementation of HSEQ compliance strategies to create a safe marine environment. This role offers a competitive salary, performance-related bonus, and comprehensive benefits package including flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Performance-related bonus

28 days holiday with the option to buy more

Private healthcare

Life and critical illness cover

Qualifications

• Experience in leading HSEQ within the Marine industry.
• Proven ability to influence and build relationships.
• Strong skills in training and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of the Safety First strategy.
• Provide expert HSEQ advice to the Marine team.
• Oversee HSEQ performance monitoring and continuous improvement.
• Promote a high-performance, inclusive team culture.

Skills

CMIOSH or equivalent degree in HSEQ

Significant marine industry experience

Strong understanding of risk management

Excellent communication skills

Experience in incident investigation

Willingness to travel

Job description

Marine HSEQ Director

Advert Close date: 5th December 2025

Purpose of Role:

Provide strategic leadership for Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ) across the Marine business. Ensure robust legal and technical frameworks, drive the Safety First strategy, and foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to influence industry standards and create the safest marine environment.

Main accountabilities:

• Lead the implementation of the Safety First strategy within Marine, ensuring compliance and best practice.
• Provide expert HSEQ advice and assurance to the Marine team advising on a variety of legal accountabilities across leasing and investing versus supply chain management and employer obligations.
• Develop and maintain action plans and risk assessments, ensuring alignment with legal and industry standards.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies.
• Oversee HSEQ performance monitoring, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective management systems, training, and governance are in place.
• Lead incident investigation, reporting, and knowledge sharing.
• Promote a high-performance, inclusive team culture and support professional development.
• Deliver ad hoc projects and provide out-of-hours support as required.

Most important skills based requirements:

• CMIOSH or equivalent degree in HSEQ.
• Significant marine industry experience, including operational HSEQ leadership.
• Strong understanding of risk management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence at all levels.
• Excellent communication, training, and presentation skills.
• Experience in incident investigation and performance monitoring.
• Willingness to travel and work flexibly

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

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