Health and Safety Manager (Manufacturing) in Coventry, Longford

Step into a rewarding Health and Safety Manager role and make a real difference across high-volume manufacturing sites, spanning manufacturing and vehicle integration operations. If safety leadership, practical problem-solving, and working in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment energise you, this Contract HSE Advisor position is built for you. Expect variety, visibility, and meaningful impact as you help drive a positive safety culture while supporting operational excellence. What You Will Do: • Provide day-to-day HSE guidance across two operational sites, acting as the primary advisor to operational, engineering, and leadership teams. • Drive a proactive safety culture through visible leadership, employee engagement, and effective communication. • Conduct inspections, audits, and workplace assessments, ensuring risk assessments, method statements, and permit-to-work arrangements stay current and effective. • Lead investigations into accidents, incidents, near misses, and non-conformances, identifying root causes and ensuring robust corrective actions. • Support safe working practices for manufacturing processes involving composites, assembly, testing, lifting operations, machinery, and hazardous substances, with compliance to COSHH, PUWER, and LOLER. • Maintain environmental compliance across both sites by supporting waste management, recycling initiatives, and environmental improvement programmes. What You Will Bring: • Previous experience as an HSE Advisor, Health and Safety Manager, Health & Safety Advisor, SHE Advisor, EHS Advisor, or HSE Business Partner within manufacturing or similarly regulated environments. • Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and environmental compliance, including experience producing clear reports following investigations. • IOSH Managing Safely (minimum) with a confident, practical approach to influencing stakeholders at all levels. • Demonstrable experience supporting production operations, including risk assessment, method statement review, and working with permits and safe systems of work. • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to coach managers and supervisors in effective HSE practices. This Health and Safety Manager role supports the company’s mission to deliver advanced, high-performance manufacturing solutions across aerospace, defence, and advanced manufacturing markets, where safety, quality, and performance must work seamlessly together. Your expertise will help strengthen safe behaviours on the shop floor and reinforce environmental responsibility across multi-site operations. Location: Based in Coventry, supporting a multi-site arrangement across a composites manufacturing facility and a vehicle integration site. Interested?: Ready to take on a high-impact Health and Safety Manager position? Apply now to take the next step and bring your HSE leadership into a role where safety truly matters. Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency. In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included