Health & Safety Manager in Grantham

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but also within the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.

Are you a confident Health & Safety leader who thrives on ensuring a safe working environment, strengthening compliance, driving cultural change and shaping long‑term site strategy? We are looking to recruit a Health and Safety Manager to provide dedicated Health and Safety leadership and expertise to the Corby site, ensuring processes and compliance are maintained, to identify gaps and lead change in operational practices and safety culture where necessary, to support and seek support from the Corby Operational Leadership Team (COLT), and to ensure the site aligns with group standards, reporting and initiatives.

The Health and Safety Manager reports to Works Manager and has responsibility for managing and developing the site’s dedicated Health and Safety Advisor and the various departmental health and safety teams and committees. The role engages with all functions and departments to ensure adequate management and oversight of all health and safety related processes, and review of the health and safety management system including policy, procedures, accountabilities, responsibilities, competencies, documents, reporting and audit. The role has relevance within the strategic development evolution of the Corby site, with expectation to impact continuous improvement and cultural development.

What you will do:

• Represent the COLT, ensuring all site health & safety responsibilities are met through strong compliance, effective processes, accurate reporting, and a positive safety culture.
• Actively participate in routine safety management, taking ownership of agendas across daily, weekly, and periodic meetings.
• Contribute to the deployment of the health and safety strategy, ensuring strategic objectives are met at site level.
• Lead and develop local Health & Safety teams (direct and indirect), ensuring capability, competency, and ongoing professional development.
• Coordinate internal and external incident reporting, including the preparation and submission of RIDDOR reports where required.
• Oversee contractor safety management, including supplier audits, competency checks, RAMS compliance, permit controls, and task reviews.
• Coordinate Corby site and TSUK‑wide H&S management system activities, ensuring alignment and delivery of required outcomes.
• Maintain all H&S systems and accreditations through internal reporting, assessments, external audits, and management of corrective and improvement actions.
• Oversee management investigations, ensuring effective reporting, circulation, and closure of required actions.
• Represent the Corby site at TSUK HSSE level, ensuring alignment, engagement, and acting as delegate when necessary.
• Ensure the Corby site participates in regional audits, programmes, and initiatives, meeting all expectations and outcomes and capture best practices for local implementation.
• Coordinate emergency preparedness and incident response processes for the Corby site.
• Collaborate with technical teams to review process safety performance, with a focus on human factors and risk‑reduction initiatives.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert across adjacent areas including incident investigation, return‑to‑work processes, occupational health, disciplinaries, and grievance hearings.

What you will need:

A visible and credible leader, as the Health and Safety Manager you will coach and mentor colleagues at all levels, leading by example in promoting safety‑focused conversations and behaviours. You will also contribute to training initiatives and support wider operational‑excellence programmes, helping embed best practice across the site. You will need to demonstrate strong influencing skills and have the ability to engage confidently and effectively at all levels of the organisation. Ideally you will have NEBOSH diploma qualified and CMIOSH (Chartered member of IOSH) or similar / working towards.

As part of this role you will also:

• Bring sound decision‑making capability and a proactive, structured approach to problem‑solving.
• Possess excellent team‑management skills are essential, including the ability to delegate, manage performance, assess competency, support development and oversee absence management.
• Benefit from excellent communications skills and have a strong understanding of external legislative requirements.
• Be exceptional at building relationships with external parties (Audits and HSE).

Ready to make a difference?

For more information or for an informal discussion please contact: georgia.fryer@tatasteeleurope.com

Please note: You may use AI tools to help prepare your application. However, all information must be accurate and based on your own experience. We value genuine, honest responses that reflect who you are.

What we can offer you:

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Quarterly Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
• Private Healthcare Scheme (Individual cover)
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.

Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045.

To learn more about who we are and what we can offer our future employees, please click on the link to watch the following video: Tata Steel – A place you can thrive.

Full time