Group SHEQ Director

COMPANY BACKGROUND:

SLINGCO is an award-winning supplier of high-quality tools and accessories for the installation and handling of cable, with over 40 years of industry heritage. We serve customers in over 70 countries worldwide from our head office in Lancashire, UK, and bases in Georgia, USA, and Bengaluru, India.

Our products are used in safety critical applications for a wide range of markets. With sectors including oil & gas, civil engineering, aerospace, transport, utilities, marine/offshore and the military – there’s no room for error. That’s why we do everything with the utmost care and precision.

We design and manufacture to the highest specifications and test to destruction. If our products don’t meet and exceed the most stringent national and international standards, they’re not good enough for our customers.

At Slingco, our goal is to create innovative high-quality products that our customers can depend on, whilst providing a positive experience for our customers and our employees. Every aspect of our work, culture and commitment to innovation is driven by our core values.

Onsite at Slingco's Head Office in Rawtenstall, Lancashire

• 33 days’ annual leave including Bank Holidays, rising to 38 with service

• Option to purchase up to 5 additional holidays

• Hybrid working option for eligible roles

• Enhanced employer pension contributions

• Your birthday off every year

• Life assurance cover worth 4x salary

• Gym membership

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Employee loan scheme

• Access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

The Group SHEQ Director is responsible for creating and leading a single, globally consistent Integrated Management System (IMS) spanning Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental compliance across Slingco’s UK, US and India operations. Building this unified IMS from the ground up is the primary focus for the role, alongside strengthening product and supplier quality performance and building the cross-functional reporting that links Quality, Health & Safety and compliance into the wider business and customer outcomes.

This is a delivery-focused, hands-on role.

• Design and Build the Group’s Unified Integrated Management System (IMS) — as the primary strategic priority of this role, conduct a gap analysis across all sites and design a single, globally consistent IMS architecture for quality, health & safety and environmental management under ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, then lead its phased roll-out across UK, US and India, establishing a single group-wide document control and governance structure throughout.

• Own Product Quality Control & Supplier Quality Performance
  , partnering with the Supply Chain function to maintain consistent product quality standards across internal manufacturing and the external supplier base, and to strengthen supplier quality performance management — extending quality ownership beyond the factory walls, not just within them.

• Own Manufacturing Product Compliance
  , ensuring products are manufactured, tested and released in line with applicable product standards and specifications and leading resolution of any non-conforming product. Product certification and accreditation strategy remains with the product and technical teams; this duty owns compliance verification and control within the manufacturing process itself.

• Build Cross-Functional Quality Reporting
  , developing quality data sets and reporting structures that link into wider functional and customer-facing performance metrics — including Supplier Performance and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) — so quality insight informs broader organisational and customer conversations, not just compliance ones.

• Close Open Compliance Gaps
  , prioritising resolution of quality and H&S non-conformances by operational and commercial risk, and establishing governance to prevent recurrence.

• Own Group Health & Safety Performance
  , driving ISO 45001 implementation and a consistent H&S framework, leading investigation and close-out of serious incidents and audit findings group-wide.

• Own Group Environmental Compliance & Reporting
  , driving ISO 14001 implementation and consistent…