Health and Safety Manager - Multi Site

Ready to shape the future of safety across one of the UK's most diverse ADR transport networks? Could you be the leader who takes safety from compliance to culture? Join us as our National Health and Safety Manager!

Here at GXO, join us as National Health and Safety Manager, where every decision you make helps protect our people, strengthening customer partnerships and shape the future of our critical transport operation. You’ll be responsible for driving the Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality strategy across GXO's national energy transport contracts, including Valero, Phillips 66, and Water operations.

Leading H&S performance across 19 locations and approximately 350 colleagues, this leadership role ensures regulatory compliance, reduces operational risk, strengthens safety culture and delivers continuous improvement across complex ADR and logistics environments. Working closely with operational leaders, customers and union representatives, you’ll provide leadership, influence strategic decision-making and embed a proactive, accountable safety culture that supports operational excellence, customer satisfaction and long-term business success.

This is a full time, permanent position. Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 (flexibility required for business needs). Whilst the role is national, due to site locations it would be beneficial to be based in the Midlands.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £55,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Develop and deliver the HSEQ strategy across multiple energy transport contracts, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements and customer expectations
• Provide visible leadership across a national, multi-site operation, driving a strong safety culture, accountability and continuous improvement at all levels of the business
• Lead risk management and safety performance initiatives, reducing incidents, strengthening operational controls and embedding effective risk assessment and safe working practices
• Oversee incident investigations, compliance governance and audit programmes, ensuring robust root cause analysis, regulatory compliance and the effective implementation of corrective actions
• Manage HSEQ improvement programmes, budgets and performance reporting, using data-driven insights to influence decision-making, mitigate risk and enhance operational effectiveness across the network

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Significant senior-level HSEQ leadership experience within transport, logistics or other complex, high-risk operational environments, with a proven ability to influence safety performance across multi-site operations
• Strong knowledge of UK health & safety legislation, compliance frameworks and HSEQ best practices
• Demonstrated success in driving behavioural safety initiatives, leading cultural change and influencing both operational and senior leadership teams within customer-facing and unionised environments
• Highly analytical with the ability to interpret performance data, identify trends and implement sustainable improvements that reduce risk and enhance operational performance
• NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent), experience applying HSEQ principles in high-risk environments, competence in root cause analysis and risk assessment methodologies, plus a full UK driving licence and willingness to travel nationally. Experience within ADR, petroleum transport, continuous improvement or leading HSEQ teams would be advantageous

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.Promoting and driving a culture of safety engagement in line with the Road to Zero philosophy and improving performance through the implementation of relevant management systems current standards and legislation; maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment by the identification and control of risks, leading to the prevention of accidents and causes of work-related ill health.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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