Description
The Health and Safety Manager will lead and embed a consistent health and safety culture across all sites of the Focusrite Group, with a focus on manufacturing locations.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain health and safety policies and procedures
- Drive compliance and build a strong reporting and safety observation culture
- Provide assurance to senior leadership and the board that risk is being properly identified and managed
- Oversee mandatory training programmes and lead aspects of the Group's compliance programme
- Investigate incidents and near-misses, and ensure root cause analysis is robust
- Maintain clear and accurate health and safety documentation
- Support the Group's commitment to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking
- Build and sustain a positive reporting culture
- Coach and support site and line managers to take ownership of day-to-day safety
- Design and deliver health and safety training and induction programmes
- Establish a consistent framework of audits, inspections, and self-assessments across all sites
Person specification:
- NEBOSH National Diploma or equivalent
- Chartered membership of IOSH
- Demonstrable experience managing health and safety across multiple sites
- Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation
- Experience presenting health and safety performance and risk information to senior leadership or board level
- Proven ability to lead incident investigations and drive root-cause corrective action
- Excellent influencing and communication skills
What success looks like in the first 12 months:
- A single, consistent health and safety reporting framework in place across all sites
- A demonstrable increase in near-miss and safety observations reporting
- Enhanced visibility of safety incidents through improved reporting practices
- Board and senior leadership confident that they are receiving accurate, timely, and meaningful assurance on health and safety risk