Head of SHE Safety, Health & Environmental

Head of SHE

UK Wide

Permanent

Competitive + Flexible Benefits

Summary

We're hiring for a critical leadership role within our Built Environment division: Head of SHE (Safety, Health and Environment).

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and drive SHE strategy at divisional level, working as part of the Senior Leadership Team. You will lead our SHE function, influence culture across our operations, and ensure compliance with Group SHE standards, helping us continue to embed an industry-leading approach to safety, health, and environmental performance.

As the Head of SHE, you'll set strategy, develop policy, build capability, and act as the division's SHE figurehead internally and externally. This role reports directly to the Managing Director and has responsibility for the SHE team across the division.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

Health & Safety Leadership

• Develop and implement divisional SHE strategy and policy to meet internal and external compliance standards.
• Ensure the "Safety First and Foremost" message is embedded across all Built Environment division activities.
• Lead initiatives to continuously improve safety culture and environmental performance.

Best Practice & Continuous Improvement

• Promote the highest levels of SHE standards, practices and behaviours across the organisation.
• Strengthen the SHE function by developing competencies aligned to industry and Group best practice.
• Influence senior leaders to enhance SHE awareness and drive behavioural change.

Team Leadership & Engagement

• Lead, develop and support the SHE team through clear objectives, accountability and performance management.
• Provide guidance, coaching and feedback to maximise team performance and capability.

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Build and manage effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, representing the division as a SHE authority.
• Act as the divisional SHE champion, influencing change at all levels.

Compliance & Governance

• Ensure adherence to all statutory and regulatory SHE standards, plus Group SHE requirements.
• Maintain certification, accreditation and compliance across all sites.
• Ensure SHE issues are recorded, investigated and closed out appropriately, with key learnings shared.

Performance & Reporting

• Lead reporting of divisional SHE performance in line with Group standards.
• Identify trends and work with local management to develop proactive solutions.
• Support continuous improvement through clear communication of performance insights.

To be successful in this role:

We need someone with substantial SHE leadership experience within a complex operational environment - ideally within construction and engineering sectors.

We're also looking for the following:

Experience

• Significant experience delivering sustained SHE performance improvement through leadership and behavioural change.
• Strong understanding of SHE governance, compliance and management systems.
• Ability to influence at senior levels with credibility and strategic insight.

Qualifications

• Chartered membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. IOSH).

Additional Skills & Competencies

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate strategy into operational performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.
• Ability to lead, coach and develop teams to build high performance.

Benefits:

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme

Next Steps:

As a business, we're on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We'll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.