Interim Head of Health, Safety and Environment

Interim Head of Health, Safety and Environment

Contract Type: 6 months Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £70 - £75,000 + £7,000 car allowance (pro-rata)

Location: Enfield

Assured Safety Recruitment is partnering with the UK division of a multinational organisation, a global leader in providing a range of logistics and related services. As the Interim Head of Health, Safety and Environment, you will be part of the UK&I team, ensuring their commitment to health, safety, and the environment is upheld.

As the Interim Head of Health, Safety and Environment, you will be responsible for developing and leading a progressive compliance strategy across the UK&I, close to 20 sites. This will involve managing the HSE and Compliance Team, ensuring all operations comply with relevant legislation and H&S standards, and producing all relevant management information, ISO systems recertification (ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 27001), KPIs and statistics supporting H&S/Compliance performance.

Responsibilities:

• Review existing management systems and design and implement improvements to promote the sharing and transfer of best practices in safety and health.
• Uphold existing accreditations in Health & Safety (H&S), Environmental, and Quality, including ISO accreditations.
• Partner with the HR Director to design a comprehensive training, learning, and development matrix for UK&I staff, covering all grades and role
• Ensure corporate global compliance standards adherence by liaising with Senior Group Risk and Compliance Stakeholders.
• Represent corporate compliance strategy externally, supporting joint initiatives with customers, and managing inquiries and investigations.
• Promptly report any legislative breaches that could harm the company’s reputation to management and appropriate authorities, ensuring thorough follow-up.
• Build relationships and upskill Site Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders on their H&S responsibilities.
• Support the creation of complex risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work for specialist activities.
• Facilitate and supervise external audits.

Requirements

• Strong management system review experience.  
• ISO systems certification experience is essential.
• Previous experience in a Head of/ Group HSE role.
• Experience of managing a small HSE team.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Experience in a logistics or similar industrial/corporate setting.
• Qualified to Nebosh Diploma Level 6 or equivalent.