Health and Safety Manager

Are you a passionate Health & Safety leader with the expertise to drive a world-class safety culture? Can you influence senior stakeholders, operational teams, and contractors to deliver safety excellence every day? Do you have the experience and credibility to support one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects?

If so, this is your opportunity to join a project helping to shape the future of Britan's energy landscape.

As a Tier One partner supporting Hinkley Point C, we provide critical warehousing and transportation services to one of the UK's largest infrastructure projects. We're looking for an experienced Health & Safety Manager to champion Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) standards at our site in Desford.

Reporting to the General Manager and Sector H&S Lead, you will lead the contract's Health & Safety agenda, partnering with operational leaders, client stakeholders, and specialist teams to create a proactive, safety-first culture.

This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week, between the hours of 06:00 and 18:00.

Pay, benefits and more

We're looking to offer a salary between £55,000 and £65,000 per annum depending on experience, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!

What you'll do on a typical day

• Lead and deliver the contract's Health & Safety strategy, ensuring compliance with client, company, and regulatory requirements
• Provide expert guidance and coaching to operational leaders, supporting continuous improvement in safety performance and culture
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning to prevent recurrence and strengthen controls
• Analyse SHEQ data and trends to identify risks, opportunities, and improvement initiatives across multiple sites
• Develop, implement, and review safety management systems, Safe Systems of Work (SSOW), training programmes, and annual SHEQ plans

What you need to succeed at GXO

• NEBOSH Diploma qualified (essential) with extensive Health & Safety management experience
• Proven experience leading SHEQ activities across multiple operational sites within logistics, warehousing, transport, construction, or industrial environments
• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent incident investigation, root cause analysis, and risk management expertise
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience interpreting and presenting SHEQ performance data

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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