Regional Health and Safety Manager

Company: High Risk, Fast Paced Manufacturing Organisation
Role: Regional Health and Safety Manager
Salary: £75000 – £85000 per annum (DOE) + £7300 car allowance, >15% Bonus
Location: Elgin, Speyside Region, North Scotland
 
A real opportunity to revitalise and strengthen safety for an iconic Scottish brand with the backing of a global organisation.
 
Seeking a Health and Safety leader who inspires, connects and able to make safety part of how this company thinks and acts. If you’re passionate about health and safety, thrive in complex environments and want to help build workplaces where people genuinely look out for each other, this could be your next great challenge.
 

• Be a trusted partner to operational leaders and inspire teams to embrace safety as a driver of success, not a compliance task.
• Mentor and develop Health & Safety team, helping them grow in confidence, skill and impact.
• Drive a safety mindset where people feel empowered to speak up, step in, and make things better every day.
• Strengthen compliance, risk management and contractor engagement through practical systems and real conversations.
• Use data and lived experience to move from lagging indicators to forward-looking insights and collective improvement.

 
Key Responsibilities:

• To coach and mentor direct reports (x5) , who are all senior professionals with strong technical expertise.
• Responsible for driving and implementing improvement projects 
• To educate and empower the sites to take accountability for H&S.
• Run a detailed analysis and site review across the facilities, ensuring gaps are closed, join the dots between the facilities who have their own unique challenges
• Developing and executing H&S roadmap aligned to group requirements and programs whilst addressing local risk, compliance and improvement areas.
• Support, engage, educate and guide the sites, taking them on a cultural journey towards interdependency
• Educate, train and drive accountability for HSE across the sites, improve levels of ownership for HSE
• Ensure all H&S is paramount across the current and upcoming projects

 
Essential criteria:

• Diploma level qualified in H&S such as NEBOSH, NVQ Level 5/6, IOSH Level is desirable or will consider a candidate with NEBOSH Certificate with significant experience and people centric approach
• High risk background with experience supporting multiple sites at different levels of maturity and engagement
• Prior experience at this senior level of H&S, reporting into a Director or Head of Function
• Prior cultural change experience, taking the business on a journey 

 
Personal fit:

• People centric
• A strong leader who is trusted and credible
• Able to communicate with gravitas, an authentic approach who engages with all levels of the business
• Practical problem solver who can collaborate well coming up with workable solutions

 
 
For more details, please contact Sophia, sophia.darwin@hserecruitment.co.uk