Health & Safety Manager

Health & Safety Manager

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

What they're looking for - Health & Safety Manager

• 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

Desirable - Health & Safety Manager

• 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.