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Group Health and Safety Director
Apply locations Lancaster House time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: September 3, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id R33368
Group Health & Safety Director
Circa £130,000 depending on skills and experience + Car Allowance
Full time, permanent, 37 hours
Location: Huntingdon with travel across the Anglian Water region is required.
Anglian Water Services is seeking a dynamic and visionaryGroup Health & Safety Directorto lead our Safety, Health and Wellbeing Strategy across our regulated and non-regulated businesses. This is a rare opportunity to influence safety culture at scale, driving transformation and continuous improvement across a diverse and complex organisation.
What you'll be doing?
As Group Health & Safety Director, you will lead the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Strategy across Anglian Water Group, including Strategic Alliances and Non-Regulated business. This senior leadership role is central to embedding a unified safety culture through a company wide cultural transformation and behavioural safety programmes and ensuring consistent, best-in-class standards across the organisation.
You’ll advise the Executive Committee on legal duties under UK health and safety legislation, and drive a multi-year transformation programme focused on behavioural change, strategic alignment, and operational excellence. You’ll lead the development of the 24-month Safer Every Day improvement plan and oversee the Capability Maturity Programme to elevate safety capability.
The role includes accountability for the corporate safety management system, performance reporting, and engagement with the Health and Safety Executive. You’ll lead a team of 90 safety professionals, ensuring effective business partnering and continuous improvement.
Externally, you’ll represent Anglian Water with regulators and industry groups, and internally, collaborate with senior leaders, unions, and contractors to embed safety and wellbeing in decision-making. You’ll also lead the Group’s Wellbeing Strategy, focusing on psychological safety, occupational health, and inclusive support for vulnerable workers.
This is a strategic, high-impact role for a leader passionate about creating a safer, healthier workplace for all.
Key duties will include:
* Strategic leadership of health, safety and wellbeing across the Group.
* Cultural transformation and behavioural safety programmes.
* Risk management, incident prevention, and regulatory engagement.
* Development of occupational health and wellbeing initiatives.
* Coaching and mentoring of safety professionals and senior leaders.
What does it take to be successful?
* Extensive Senior-Level Experience with a proven track record in a senior strategic Health & Safety leadership role, ideally within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
* Professional Qualifications: NEBOSH or Degree in Health and Safety.
* Proven track record in strategic change and cultural transformation.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Strong team orientated communication and influencing skills, with experience working alongside Boards, Directors, and external partners.
* Passionate about creating a safe and healthy workplace.
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
* 30 days holiday plus bank holidays (with flexibility for religious holidays)
* market need Car Allowance
* Personal private health care
* Life cover – 8x annual salary
* Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
* Annual bonus scheme and lifestyle benefits
Why Join Us?
We’re more than just a water company. We’re a purpose-led organisation committed to sustainability, innovation, and making life better for our customers and communities. Join us and help shape the future of health, safety and wellbeing in the water industry.
Closing Date: Tuesday 2 September 2025
About Us
We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.
We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk ’
To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.
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Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.
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