HS&E Manager in Cheadle

About the role

As the HS&E Manager at JCB Compact Products, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the safety, wellbeing and environmental performance of one of our Staffordshire business units. You’ll lead our approach to risk management, legal compliance and continuous improvement, helping to shape a strong, proactive HS&E culture across the site. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll influence behaviours, drive standards, and support the business in maintaining a safe, compliant and forward‑thinking working environment.

Responsibilities

• Delivering effective risk management across the site, ensuring risk reduction measures and emergency preparedness plans are in place and maintained.
• Ensuring compliance with HS&E legislation, JCB policies and international health, safety and environmental standards.
• Monitoring HS&E performance trends, identifying areas for improvement and creating plans to address them.
• Identifying site HS&E training and competency needs, and ensuring your team delivers appropriate development.
• Reporting, investigating and following up on all HS&E incidents, near misses and hazard observations.
• Enhancing the site’s HS&E culture by promoting best practice and driving strong governance across the business.

Qualifications

• You hold a NEBOSH Diploma or an equivalent degree in a relevant discipline.
• You have extensive experience within HS&E, ideally already operating at HS&E Manager or equivalent level.
• You bring an understanding of environmental management (advantageous but not essential).
• You have experience working in health & safety within customer‑facing environments or situations involving interaction with the public.
• You are confident using digital tools, and willing to travel within the UK when required.
• You are enthusiastic, proactive and committed to continuous improvement and best‑practice HS&E management.
• You work with urgency, professionalism and strong attention to detail, and can influence stakeholders at all levels.

What happens next?

Ordinarily, our Resourcing Team reviews and shortlists CVs. If shortlisted, you’ll speak to one of our Recruiters to discuss the role further. Our interview process usually consists of an initial team’s interview followed by an in-person interview. We’ll keep in touch throughout the process but if you have any questions, please get in touch at recruitment@jcb.com.

What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers. Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Recruitment Team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.

Recruitment Agencies: JCB does not accept any speculative approaches to present candidates for advertised vacancies.