Health & Safety Manager

6-Month Fixed-Term Contract (with potential to become permanent)

£50,000–£60,000 + Company Car or Car Allowance

Fully Remote with UK-Wide Travel (Ideally Midlands-based)

Are you ready to shape the future of health and safety within a critical and fast-moving hazardous materials environment?

We are working exclusively with a well-established, UK-wide fuels and distribution organisation seeking a forward-thinking Health & Safety Manager to build and lead a national health and safety function. This is a rare opportunity to create a best-in-class H&S framework from the ground up—without inheriting legacy systems or managing a team.

This role offers full autonomy to design and implement a modern, scalable safety strategy across a national depot network, supporting safe and compliant operations throughout the UK.

The Opportunity

Reporting at senior level, the successful candidate will take full ownership of the organisation’s health and safety strategy, culture and systems across approximately 35 operational depots nationwide.

This is a blank-canvas role suited to a confident and self-sufficient SHEQ professional who thrives on building frameworks, influencing stakeholders and embedding a proactive safety culture within hazardous materials operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a national health and safety strategy aligned to hazardous materials and fuels distribution operations

• Develop and embed policies, procedures, Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) and compliance frameworks from first principles

• Lead risk assessments, incident investigations and root cause analysis

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across multiple operational sites

• Provide expert guidance and coaching to operational leaders and frontline colleagues

• Ensure full compliance with UK health and safety legislation and industry-specific standards

• Oversee audit programmes, performance reporting and trend analysis

• Act as the organisation’s subject matter expert on all health and safety matters

• Promote and embed a positive, values-led safety culture across the business

Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in a senior Health & Safety role within a high-risk environment

• Experience within fuels, chemicals, logistics or other hazardous materials sectors is highly desirable

• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and regulatory requirements

• NEBOSH Diploma (advantageous)

• Demonstrable experience building or transforming H&S systems

• Confident communicator with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels

• Pragmatic, hands-on approach with the ability to work autonomously

• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally

What’s on Offer

• £50,000–£60,000 salary

• Company car or car allowance

• 33 days’ holiday, including bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional leave

• Company pension and life assurance

• Healthcare cash plan

• Employee assistance programme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Long service recognition

• Funded training and accredited development opportunities

• Access to retail, leisure and lifestyle discounts

• Clear progression opportunities within a wider multi-division group

Why Apply?

This is a genuinely unique opportunity to architect a national health and safety function within a growing hazardous materials business. The successful candidate will have the autonomy, senior-level exposure and strategic influence to make a measurable impact from day one.

If you are motivated by building systems, shaping culture and operating at both strategic and operational levels, we would welcome a confidential discussion.