Health and Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager |Bedford | £50,000 Plus Benefits

Are you passionate about driving health and safety standards within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment?
Do you enjoy leading site teams, improving compliance and embedding a strong, practical safety culture?

We're seeking a proactive and inspiring Health and Safety Manager to lead safety initiatives at a busy site producing fresh food products. This hands-on leadership role involves shaping safety culture, championing environmental sustainability, and ensuring compliance across all operations.

Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Manager will include:

Providing the subject-matter expertise, leadership and coaching to build safety & health capability across the site.
Auditing health and safety performance, accurately reporting and investigating incidents and near misses.
Engaging with key internal and external stakeholders including contractors, regulators, and enforcement agencies.
Delivering in-house training and inductions to employees across the site.
The successful Health and Safety Manager will have:

Proven Health & Safety experience in manufacturing or industrial environments.
Strong communication, coaching, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage employees, managers, contractors, and senior leaders.
Experience in food is advantageous.
Strong risk management, accident prevention, and safety culture expertise
Ability to lead incident investigations and implement effective improvements
Relevant qualifications (NEBOSH)
Highly organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Pro-active and solutions focussed.

Join a forward-thinking organisation committed to safety, sustainability, and diversity. Grow your career in a supportive, inclusive culture where you can truly make a difference.

For more information or to apply, please contact Sam Tearne at or call (phone number removed).

Irwin and Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company, based in the South East of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health and Safety Director through to Health and Safety Advisor positions.

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