Health & Safety Manager
Are you looking to shape Health & Safety across both factory floors and live construction environments?
This is your opportunity to step into a Health & Safety Manager position with a long-established UK manufacturer with several local production facilities and a wide range of installation and construction activities across the region.
As the Health & Safety Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping culture across both factory and site environments - supporting managers, coaching teams and ensuring safe, consistent operations every day. With direct access to senior leadership, this H&S Manager role offers autonomy, visibility and the chance to make a real impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
As the Safety Manager, you will:
* Lead Health & Safety across multiple manufacturing facilities and active construction/installation sites across the Midlands and South England
* Carry out inspections and audits across factories and sites – ensuring safe equipment use, lifting operations, strong RAMS and effective subcontractor control
* Develop and improve Health & Safety documentation including risk assessments, RAMS and SSOW
* Support and coach supervisors, site managers and production managers to strengthen day-to-day safety leadership
* Lead accident and incident investigations, ensuring clear actions and meaningful learning
* Deliver internal H&S training and toolbox talks and maintain constructive relationships with regulatory bodies
What We’re Looking For
To succeed as the Health & Safety Manager, you’ll bring:
* A blend of manufacturing and construction/site experience – experience in either environment with strong transferable skills will also be considered
* Understanding of machinery/equipment safety, workplace transport, lifting operations and construction-phase risks
* Practical experience working with subcontractors, RAMS, crane operations, scaffolding or site-based installation activities
* NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent level H&S qualification (or NEBOSH Certificate with highly relevant experience)
* Confident communication skills and the ability to challenge appropriately while building trust across diverse teams
* Full UK driving licence
What’s On Offer
* A competitive basic salary of £50,000 – £60,000
* Fully funded EV company car (Tesla)
* Mileage reimbursed at HMRC EV rate
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays
* Pension scheme
* Laptop, phone and travel expenses paid
* 1–2 days per week home working once established
* Flexible working hours around role requirements
Why Join?
This Health & Safety Manager role offers:
* A high-impact, autonomous position where you can shape the Health & Safety function
* Direct access to senior leadership in an open, collaborative environment
* Strong foundations already in place – with space to refine, improve and influence culture
* A stable, long-established business entering an exciting phase of operational development
* The chance to work across both manufacturing and construction environments, offering genuine variety and career development
If you’re a motivated, people-focused Health & Safety professional looking to take on a varied H&S Manager role across manufacturing and construction environments, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now through Sustainable Futures Group (SFG) – Global Recruitment Experts in Health, Safety & Sustainability