Head of Safety, Health & Environment Contractor

Location: Flexible

Contract length: 6 - months

IR35: Inside

Start Date: ASAP

Were looking for a Head of Safety Health & Environment contractor to join our on-a 6-month basis. This role is critical to shaping a positive peoplecentred safety culture across a complex UK operation leading by example and inspiring teams to put Health Safety and Wellbeing at the heart of everything they do.

You will work collaboratively with senior leaders operational teams and external contractors to drive continuous improvement support meaningful culture change and ensure excellence in SHE strategy compliance and performance. Its a highly influential role for a confident valuesled leader who thrives on connection collaboration and making a lasting impact.

What youll be doing:

• Leading and nurturing a highperforming regional SHE team creating an environment where people feel supported developed and empowered to do their best work
• Partnering closely with senior leaders and operational teams to shape a strong valuesled health safety and wellbeing culture that goes beyond compliance and truly puts people first
• Guiding and supporting contractors across their full lifecycle ensuring safe capable delivery through robust planning assurance and continuous improvement
• Driving meaningful sustainable improvements to SHE policies systems and behaviours using insight collaboration and best practice to raise standards across the network
• Influencing change across a complex business through clear communication thoughtful leadership and a handson approach to coaching assurance and project delivery

What youll bring to the role:

• A visible valuesled leadership style that builds trust inspires others and champions a positive peoplefirst approach to health safety and wellbeing
• Strong strategic thinking paired with practical delivery enabling you to guide complex teams and contractors towards safer smarter and more sustainable ways of working
• The ability to collaborate with confidence at senior level influencing culture change through empathy clear communication and credible expertise
• Deep professional knowledge of SHE combined with curiosity and openness to continuous improvement innovation and shared learning
• A calm resilient presence with the emotional intelligence to coach mentor and bring people with you through change in a complex operational environment

Qualifications :

• Proven leadership of SHE delivery within large complex operating environments
• Recognised Health & Safety subject matter expert providing proactive and reactive advice in line with Regulation 7 of the MHASAWR99
• Partnered with operational Directors to develop effective compliance and improvement plans aligned to corporate and customer strategies
• Acted as a commercially focused business-minded partner on Health & Safety matters
• Collaborated across the organisation to share best-practice SHE solutions
• Drove sustainable culture change through strategic planning of SHE activities and resources
• Developed and implemented new ways of working to improve SHE performance

Additional Information :

CityFibre is partnering with Talent Works to manage our contingent worker vacancies. If you are successful in your application you will be engaged by Talent Works to work on assignment at CityFibre.

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background family or carer status ethnicity sexual orientation religion age disability gender or gender identity we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process please email us at We want to help!

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background family or carer status ethnicity sexual orientation religion age disability gender or gender identity we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process please email us at We want to help!

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1