Health Safety & Enviroment Manager

Introduction

Saab UK is part of Scandinavia's largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.

The Role:

This role will report to the Head of Quality Health, Safety & Environmental supporting the Saab Seaeye underwater robotics business unit in Fareham.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve HSE management systems, policies, standards and procedures across the organisation.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable HSE legislation, regulations, industry standards and customer requirements.

• Ensure compliance with Saab Group HSE standards, governance requirements and corporate expectations.

• Promote a positive HSE culture through visible leadership, engagement, coaching and effective communication.

• Lead delivery of the HSE strategy, objectives, monitor HSE performance, analyse trends, report KPIs and drive improvement initiatives.

• Prepare HSE reports and performance data for leadership teams and management reviews.

• Identify HSE competency requirements and coordinate training, awareness and development programmes. Ensure effective HSE induction and onboarding processes for employees, contractors and visitors.

• Lead internal audits, inspections and compliance verification activities across all business functions and coordinate and support customer, regulatory, certification body and corporate compliance audits.

• Provide expert HSE advice, guidance and support to managers, employees and project teams.

• Support development of safe systems of work, method statements and operational risk assessments.

• Lead hazard identification, risk assessment and risk reduction activities across projects and operations.

• Ensure High Voltage activities are effectively planned, controlled and conducted in compliance with applicable legislation, standards and safe systems of work.

• Lead machinery safety programmes, including PUWER compliance, guarding, interlocks, inspections, maintenance controls and lockout/tagout arrangements.

• Ensure new manufacturing processes, tooling, equipment and facilities are safely introduced through structured risk assessments.

• Ensure ergonomic risks are assessed and controlled during the design, development and implementation of manufacturing processes and workplace activities.

• Integrate HSE requirements into New Product Introduction activities, ensuring risks are identified and controlled throughout design, industrialisation and production readiness.

• Ensure offsite activities, customer operations and field work are effectively planned and controlled.

• Manage incident reporting, investigations, root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.

• Monitor environmental performance, including energy, emissions, waste, resource efficiency and compliance.

• Drive sustainability initiatives and embed environmental considerations throughout the product lifecycle.

• Manage REACH, RoHS and hazardous substance compliance requirements and product stewardship obligations.

• Oversee contractor, supplier and supply chain HSE performance and compliance.

• Support bids, engineering projects, emergency preparedness, wellbeing programmes, 6S activities and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 5-10 Years in a manufacturing/engineering environment

• Internal auditing

• Working with (and being audited by) external accreditation bodies

• Detailed knowledge of ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001

• HSE related qualification (e.g. via NEBOSH)

• Environmental related qualification (e.g. IEMA Cert in environmental management)

• Excellent motivator, team builder and the ability to drive cultural transformation

• Knowledge of the offshore energy market (Desirable)

By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.