Regional Health, Safety And Wellbeing Manager

Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Location: Bristol

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

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