Health & Safety Manager in Banbury, Oxfordshire

Are you an experienced Health & Safety professional who enjoys making a real difference? We're looking for a proactive and hands-on Health & Safety Manager to take ownership of health and safety across a multi-site business.

Based at the Banbury head office, you'll play a key role in maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring legislative compliance and building a positive culture where safety is everyone's responsibility. Full time and part time hours considered.

You'll be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments, ensuring they are effective, up to date and aligned with current UK legislation
• Working closely with teams across the business, you'll carry out regular site inspections and audits, identify areas for improvement
• Ensuring any necessary corrective actions are followed through

• Leading accident and incident investigations, identify root causes and recommend preventative actions
• Delivering health and safety awareness training to new and existing team members
• Advising managers and colleagues on health and safety legislation, policies and best practice
• Monitoring compliance through site visits, audits and inspections across the UK
• Maintaining accurate records of incidents, training, risk assessments and other H&S documentation
• Producing reports, identify trends and recommending improvements
• Acting as the main point of contact for health and safety queries across the business
• Supporting the development and delivery of health and safety initiatives

You must be/have:

An experienced Health & Safety professional, confident working independently and building relationships at all levels of a business.

You'll ideally have:

• Previous experience in a similar Health & Safety role
• A NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent qualification
• Good knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and regulations
• Experience undertaking risk assessments, audits, inspections and accident investigations
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to advise, influence and deliver training
• Excellent organisation, attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• The ability to manage your own workload, prioritise effectively and use your initiative
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365

A full, valid UK driving licence is essential, as the role involves regular travel to other sites across the UK.

What's in it for you?

The salary for this role is £Competitive, holiday entitlement is 29 days' holiday during each holiday year, which includes the usual 8 public holidays. Holiday entitlement increases alongside length of service up to a maximum of 34 days. Additional benefits include employee discount on company products, auto-enrolment pension scheme, free onsite parking, learning and development opportunities, access to employee benefits platform including discounts and offers on hundreds of retail and leisure activities, online learning courses and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).