Job Description
Health & Safety Manager
Location: Birkenhead (with UK-wide site travel)
Salary: £45k - £50k plus car and 25 days holiday in an employee-owned company
Own the Function. Strengthen the Culture. Raise the Bar.
We re supporting a well-established engineering and manufacturing business to appoint a Health & Safety Manager.
This isn t a clipboard role.
It s a genuine ownership brief leading Health & Safety across both manufacturing operations in Birkenhead and site-based service teams across the UK.
You ll report directly to the Managing Directors, with the autonomy to shape systems, influence behaviour and embed standards that actually work in the real world.
What You ll Get
- Full ownership of the H&S function
- Direct access to senior leadership
- The authority to implement meaningful improvements
- Variety across factory and UK site environments
- The opportunity to strengthen culture, not just compliance
If you re ready to step into a visible, trusted role where your decisions matter this gives you that platform.
What You ll Be Doing
- Leading and managing H&S systems across manufacturing and services
- Ensuring compliance with UK H&S legislation
- Maintaining and improving RAMS
- Supporting site teams with project-specific safety requirements
- Leading accident investigations and driving corrective action
- Managing training records and competency frameworks
- Conducting internal audits and preparing for external certification
- Keeping the business audit-ready year-round
- Reporting performance metrics to senior leadership
If you have health and safety experience within manufacturing and/or service environments and your NEBOSH we d love to hear from you.
You ll be firm when needed, collaborative where it counts, and focused on practical solutions - not bureaucracy.
If you want a role where you can genuinely influence standards, build credibility across operations and see the impact of your work every day click apply now.
