Job Description
Health & Safety Manager
Full-time Role
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: On-site (mainly Cambridge area, with flexible travel across UK and potentially international sites)
The company is a high-technology defence startup. As our Health & Safety Manager, you’ll own the design, implementation and leadership of all health, safety and environmental processes across the business. You’ll bring foresight to our operations, ensuring compliance with UK, EU and international standards while shaping a culture of health & safety.
This role is about more than compliance: you’ll build systems that are clear, practical, and easy to follow – processes that encourage people to take ownership rather than seeing H&S as a tick-boxing exercise. By doing so, you’ll make safety an enabler of innovation, resilience and mission success.
Key responsibilities:
1. Strategy and leadership: Define and lead the company’s health, safety and environmental strategy across all sites and projects. Serve as the authority on HSE matters, advising the CEO, the Board, senior leadership, and engineering teams. Early engagement on upcoming projects and expansions to have H&S in place from the start to enable the business to progress rapidly and efficiently.
2. Risk management & compliance: Driv...