Senior Health and Safety Sector Lead

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Job Description

Joining us at Wincanton, our safety-first culture is at the heart of what we do and value, having paramount importance to our customers, colleagues, and stakeholders.

As our Health and Safety Sector Lead, you will be a member of our Public and Industrial senior leadership team, with a focus on P&I whilst also forming with our wider sectors and Group Safety. As a valued senior leader, you will be leading our safety strategy taking ownership of our safety culture, people, budgets and shaping continuous improvement.

This is a national role that thrives from face-to-face engagement, pragmatic and innovative leadership, along with being results driven within our dynamic, compliant focused operations. Our P&I sector is complex and tailored to customer unique needs... that's where you come in, offering end-to-end safety solutions.

Key Accountabilities:
- Lead and take ownership of our SHEQ planning and strategy, through culture, people, budgets and key metrics.
- Key valued member of our senior leadership team, taking ownership within senior meetings on all matters SHEQ and compliance focused.
- Promote, engage, and deliver the SHEQ strategy, driving tangible improvements in safety performance and culture.
- Support, coach, and guide management teams on all aspects of SHEQ, being accountable for performance across the sector.
- Provide SHEQ SME knowledge and support to colleagues and line management within the sector, ensuring best practise in health and safety, including management, accident reduction strategies, safety culture engagement and training.
- Lead on statistical analysis and trends to identify areas of opportunity, assisting in creation, modification and delivery of relevant action plans and provide support for all HSEQ.

This is a national role and requires flexibility for travel and being visible to our site teams.

What will you bring to our team?

- Senior leadership SHEQ multi-site/sector experience, within different complex and unique operations.
- Thrive from measured results and successes, with experience in improvements against targets and strategy.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation experience, showcasing evidence of sharing best-in-class practises and lessons learned.
- Evidence of trend analysis, showcasing moving forward with culture and KPIS.
- Passionate for people safety and development, experienced in delivery safety culture, identifying individuals through succession planning, coaching and development.
- NEBOSH General Qualification (as a minimum).

What do we offer?

Our Culture & Benefits

In addition to a generous salary, company car/allowance, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company car, company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, and much more.

Our people are at the core of our business and what makes Wincanton great. That's why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

Be a part of our values; Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness & Trust.

Our Commitment

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes. Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.