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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.
