Regional Health and Safety Manager in Wakefield

Principal People are excited to be working exclusively with a growing organisation who are looking to appoint a Regional Health and Safety Manager.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Health, Safety and Environmental professional to take ownership of a multi-site role, driving both cultural change and continuous improvement across multiple locations.

The successful candidate will join a market leading business that is growing steadily and places health, safety and environmental at the heart of its operations. This is an on-site, operationally focused role with the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders.

The key duties include:

• Leading and driving cultural change across health, safety and environment.
• Managing HSE compliance across the sites
• Ensuring risk assessments and safe systems of work are in place and regularly reviewed
• Developing, implementing and maintaining safety action plans and compliance programmes
• Managing accident, incident and near-miss reporting, ensuring thorough investigation and follow-up
• Able to embed a proactive safety culture across the business
• Being visible and operational throughout the locations and champion behavioural safety

Why should you apply for the role?

• Opportunity to lead HSE with great scope across the business
• The opportunity to progress to a Head of Health and Safety position in the years to come
• High levels of autonomy to make positive change, backed by engaged senior leadership
• A varied role covering multiple sites, each with challenges
• A chance to make a real difference within the company
• A wide variation within the company’s risk profile

 
We would love to see CVs from people who have 

• NEBOSH Diploma certificate  

• Experience within a higher risk industry sector such as Manufacturing, Logistics, Waste and Recycling, Engineering etc. 

• Experience within an operational safety environment 
• Someone who has managed a team in a health and safety setting

• Someone who’s collaborative who can communicate well, is personable with drive and resilience.