Regional Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager
Listed on 2026-09-20
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Management
Regulatory Compliance Specialist -
Construction
Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Location:
England
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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