GXO Logistics
Health and Safety Manager
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Contract Health and Safety Manager
Ready to lead the safety values and agenda across a national transport operation, influencing over 300 colleagues and driving meaningful change across multi-sites? Do you have Health and Safety Manager leadership, commercial awareness and HSEQ expertise to shape a world-class safety culture while partnering with senior leaders to improve performance, reduce risk and protect our people?
Here at GXO, we're looking for an experienced and influential Contract Health and Safety Manager to lead the Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality strategy across our Marshalls and Marley transport contracts. Operating nationally across multi sites and supporting around 300 colleagues, you'll play a pivotal role in driving safety performance, reducing operational risk and embedding a positive safety culture throughout the organisation. Working closely with senior operational leaders, you'll provide visible leadership, strengthen compliance and governance, and deliver continuous improvement initiatives that support operational excellence, customer satisfaction and long-term business success.
Pay, benefits and more
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £56,000 per annum (dependent on level of experience) + jobs need car, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts!
What you’ll do on a typical day
- Lead the HSEQ strategy across multiple transport sites, partnering with senior operational leaders to drive compliance, continuous improvement and a strong safety culture
- Drive safety performance and risk management, reducing incidents through proactive audits, inspections, risk assessments and operational improvement plans
- Lead incident investigations, ensuring robust root cause analysis, effective corrective actions and the sharing of best practice across the network
- Strengthen compliance and governance, overseeing audits, regulatory requirements, customer standards and assurance activities to maintain operational excellence
- Develop capability and influence stakeholders, coaching leaders, leading safety engagement initiatives and using data-driven insights to improve HSEQ performance across the business
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What you need to succeed at GXO
- An experienced HSEQ leader with a proven track record in transport, logistics or other complex operational environments, influencing safety performance across multi-site operations
- Strong technical expertise in UK health and safety legislation, risk management, incident investigation and compliance improvement, with the ability to drive sustainable business change (NEBOSH General Certificate essential)
- A strategic influencer and relationship builder, confident engaging with senior leaders, customers, operational teams and trade union representatives to deliver positive outcomes
- Data-driven and improvement-focused, with strong analytical skills and experience using insights to identify trends, reduce risk and enhance operational performance
- A visible and credible leader, passionate about developing positive safety cultures, coaching others, driving accountability and leading behavioural safety initiatives
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We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains. GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.
GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
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