Health & Safety Manager in Poole
Posted by Holt Engineering
£56,250 – £65,200 a year
Poole · Permanent
Poole, Dorset
Health & Safety Manager salary: £56,250 – £65,200
Please note: only applicants with the full-time, permanent right to work in the UK will be considered.
Health & Safety Manager Overview:
✅ Lead Health & Safety strategy across a busy engineering and manufacturing environment
✅ Own ISO 45001 systems, risk assessments, audits and incident investigations
✅ Work closely with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality and senior leadership
✅ Drive behavioural safety, training, contractor compliance and continuous improvement
✅ Combine strategic H&S leadership with a visible, hands-on presence across the site
This Health & Safety Manager role is with an established engineering manufacturer in Poole, supporting a varied production environment across manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, warehousing and office functions.
The Health & Safety Manager will take ownership of the company’s H&S strategy and management system while remaining close to day-to-day operations. The role needs someone who can influence at senior level, challenge unsafe practices constructively and work directly with teams to reduce risk and improve standards.
The Health & Safety Manager role
As Health & Safety Manager, you’ll lead the development and continuous improvement of H&S policies, systems and objectives while ensuring compliance with UK legislation and ISO 45001 requirements.
This is not a purely desk-based compliance role. The Health & Safety Manager will spend significant time across the operation, carrying out inspections, reviewing working practices, supporting managers and leading investigations and improvement activity.
Day-to-day responsibilities of a Health & Safety Manager
- Develop and lead the company’s Health & Safety strategy and annual improvement plans
- Maintain and improve the H&S Management System in line with ISO 45001
- Provide practical H&S guidance to managers, supervisors and employees
- Lead risk assessments across manufacturing, engineering, maintenance and warehouse areas
- Develop and review Safe Systems of Work, method statements and permit-to-work processes
- Support machinery safety, ergonomic improvements and emergency-response arrangements
- Conduct workplace inspections, behavioural safety observations and internal audits
- Manage corrective and preventive actions arising from audits and inspections
- Lead investigations into accidents, incidents, near misses and unsafe conditions
- Monitor H&S KPIs, trends and improvement actions and report to senior management
- Develop and deliver H&S inductions, refresher training and toolbox talks
- Support contractor compliance, including RAMS reviews and permit systems
- Contribute to ISO 14001, environmental controls and waste-management activity
- Support external audits, regulatory visits, customer audits and insurance inspections
- Promote employee engagement through safety campaigns, committees and improvement initiatives
- Strong experience within Health & Safety in a manufacturing or engineering environment
- NEBOSH General Certificate
- Strong knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation
- Experience managing or supporting ISO 45001 systems
- Practical experience with risk assessments, audits and workplace inspections
- Confident leading accident, incident and near-miss investigations
- Good understanding of Safe Systems of Work, RAMS and permit-to-work arrangements
- Strong communication and influencing skills across shop-floor and senior-management levels
- Able to balance strategic H&S leadership with hands-on operational support
- Strong analytical, reporting and problem-solving capability
- Comfortable managing several priorities within a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- NEBOSH Diploma or currently working towards it
- TechIOSH, GradIOSH or CMIOSH membership
- Internal or Lead Auditor qualification
- ISO 14001 experience
- Fire Risk Assessment training
- Machinery safety or engineering risk-management experience
- Experience developing behavioural safety or employee-engagement programmes
What’s on offer - Health & Safety Manager
Health & Safety Manager salary: £56,250 – £65,200
A senior H&S role with genuine ownership of strategy, systems and site-wide improvement activity.
The opportunity to influence how Health & Safety is embedded across Engineering, Production, Maintenance and wider operations.
A strong position for a Health & Safety Manager who wants both strategic responsibility and a visible operational presence.
How to apply for the Health & Safety Manager position
If you’re interested in this Health & Safety Manager role, get in touch to talk through the site, manufacturing environment and H&S scope.
Call or message Hayden at Holt Engineering on (phone number removed).
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