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Health and Safety Manager (Multi-Site)
About this role
Health and Safety Manager (Multi-Site) Based: High Wycombe office Location: Multi-site, with regular travel between sites Term: Permanent, full time Salary: £50000 - £55000 pa + benefits Purpose of the role: Reporting to our General Counsel, the Health and Safety Manager is responsible for leading and embedding a consistent, proportionate health and safety culture across all of the Focusrite Group's sites (UK, Germany, USA (CA), China, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia) with particular focus on the manufacturing locations where physical risk exposure is highest.
The role owns the H&S management system end to end: setting policy and standards, driving compliance, building a strong reporting and safety observation culture, and providing assurance to senior leadership and the board that risk is being properly identified, managed and reduced over time. In addition the Health and Safety Manager will oversee the Group’s mandatory training programmes and lead certain aspects of the Group’s compliance programme such as collecting data and collating reporting information for the Group’s anti-modern slavery processes.
This is both a hands-on and a strategic role: the postholder will be on the shop floor as well as attending board meetings, and will need to move comfortably between the two. Key responsibilities: Strategy, governance and reporting Develop and maintain the Group's health and safety policies and procedures, strategy and annual improvement plan and drive their practical implementation and ongoing effectiveness, ensuring consistency of standards across all sites while allowing for site-specific risk profiles.
Own the H&S governance framework, including reporting cadence to senior management and the board. Translating operational data into clear, decision-useful insight rather than raw reporting statistics. Prepare and present regular H&S performance reports, incident trends, and audit findings to leadership, recommending action where risk exposure is increasing. Act as the Focusrite Group's principal point of contact with the HSE (or equivalent regulator) and other external stakeholders on health and safety matters as and when necessary.