Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Location: England
Industry: Highways & Infrastructure
Salary: up to £95,000 + company care + benefits
Scope of Work: An exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing to join a leading infrastructure organisation, providing strategic HSW leadership across major highways maintenance operations.
Are you an experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing leader with a background in complex, multi-site operations?
Do you have the ambition to lead safety culture and continuous improvement across major infrastructure projects?
Turner Lovell is currently recruiting for a Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing to join a leading highways and infrastructure organisation.
You will provide strategic leadership across Health, Safety and Wellbeing, driving a positive safety culture, ensuring legal compliance and supporting continuous improvement across multiple contracts and operational teams.
Working closely with senior leadership, clients and stakeholders, you will play a key role in embedding best practice, managing risk and ensuring the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing.
In this role you will:
- Provide visible HSW leadership across multiple operations, projects and contracts
- Lead, develop and coach HSW teams, promoting high standards and accountability
- Ensure compliance with UK Health & Safety legislation and CDM Regulations
- Oversee audits, inspections, compliance reviews and corrective actions
- Lead incident and near-miss investigations, ensuring effective root cause analysis and shared learning
- Monitor HSW performance, KPIs and emerging risks to drive continuous improvement
- Build strong relationships with clients, senior stakeholders, subcontractors and supply-chain partners
- Champion wellbeing and mental health initiatives across the organisation
- Support senior management with HSW strategy, business improvement and operational decision-making
- Drive best practice, innovation and continuous improvement across HSW systems and processes
The ideal profile is someone who has:
- NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 6 or equivalent
- Chartered IOSH status (CMIOSH), or working towards it
- Significant senior SHEQ/HSW leadership experience across multi-site operations
- Strong knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation and CDM Regulations
- Proven experience in incident investigation and root cause analysis
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams
- Strong data analysis, reporting and Microsoft 365 skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior leadership
If you are considering what your next senior leadership role could look like within the highways and infrastructure sector, and have a passion for driving a positive Health, Safety and Wellbeing culture, please apply and get in touch with Jo Enderby via the link provided for more information.