Health and Safety Manager

Job Opportunity: Health and Safety Manager - Southern Home Counties

Location: Southern Home Counties
Salary: 60,000 - 65,000
Position Type: Full-time

Are you an experienced Health and Safety professional looking for a role where you can make a real impact and take ownership? This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a standalone Health and Safety Manager role with a well-established medium-sized contractor specializing in small-scale refurbishment schemes.

Our client is seeking a dedicated Health and Safety Manager to oversee all aspects of health and safety across their sites in the Southern Home Counties. With a strong focus on compliance, site safety, and continuous improvement, this role offers significant career progression as you take full responsibility for the day-to-day health and safety operations.

In addition to managing site safety, you'll also play a vital role in tendering processes when required, ensuring health and safety measures are fully integrated into project proposals and plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage health and safety policies and procedures.
• Conduct site inspections and audits, ensuring full compliance with industry regulations.
• Provide guidance, training, and support to project teams to promote a positive safety culture.
• Investigate incidents, near-misses, and accidents, implementing corrective measures as needed.
• Prepare reports and ensure accurate record-keeping to meet statutory and company requirements.
• Contribute to tendering processes, ensuring health and safety is embedded into proposals when needed.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Minimum of 6 years' experience in a health and safety role, ideally within a contractor environment.
• Proven experience working on refurbishment or construction schemes.
• NEBOSH qualification (essential).
• A solid understanding of construction health and safety regulations and best practices.
• Full, clean UK driving license (essential).
• Understanding of the tendering process
• A proactive, hands-on approach and the ability to work independently.
• Strong communication and leadership skills to influence and engage at all levels.

Desirable:

• Previous experience working for a well-known contractor would be highly advantageous.

This is a newly created role due to the company's growth, giving you the chance to shape the health and safety function from the ground up. As the sole Health and Safety professional, you'll play a critical role in ensuring safe and compliant operations across multiple sites, with the freedom to implement your vision and ideas.

Salary and Benefits:

• Competitive salary of 60,000 - 65,000, depending on experience.
• Opportunity to make a tangible impact and grow within a thriving business.

If you are looking for a role where you can take ownership, grow your career, and work within a supportive and collaborative team, we want to hear from you.

Join us in driving a culture of safety and excellence - apply today!

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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