Health & Safety Manager

Are you a confident QHSE leader who thrives in complex, highly automated environments? Do you enjoy influencing at all levels and building a culture where everyone owns safety and wellbeing? Ready to take accountability for health, safety and environmental performance at a national distribution centre?

GXO is currently recruiting a QHSE Manager to join our M&S site in Thorncliffe. This is a senior, site‑based leadership role within a large, automated distribution centre, where you’ll take full responsibility for all thing’s health and safety at site and help push our road to zero campaign. Reporting to the General Manager, with a dotted line into Regional EHS, you’ll lead the on‑site QHSE and Facilities teams, working closely with GXO central functions and the customer to ensure legal compliance, continuous improvement and a strong safety‑first culture.

This role is offered on a full‑time, permanent basis, working Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00 or 09:00 to 17:00, with flexibility required to support the operation – this is logistics after all.

Pay, benefits and more:

You’ll be paid a salary of up to £48,000 per annum, you’ll also receive 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), as well as the option to buy additional days so you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical and dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more. You’ll also have access to our GXO University which provides you the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications at a pace that you’re comfortable with. There’s also our continued focus on internal promotions, over 55% last year!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead, drive and continually improve the QSHE culture, champion the GXO philosophy in the management and communication of health, safety and environment to create a best-in-class safety culture
• Drive a strong, visible safety culture where everyone takes ownership of safety and wellbeing
• Develop, implement and maintain site safety policies, procedures and risk assessments
• Lead incident reporting and investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions embedded
• Chair safety committee meetings, manage site action plans and report performance to senior stakeholders
• Develop and coach the on‑site QHSE and Facilities teams, building capability and consistency
• Monitor, analyse and report safety performance metrics, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement
• Coordinate audits, inspections, contractor safety and business continuity planning

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Proven experience leading QHSE activity within a warehouse, distribution or automated environment
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Health & Safety is essential
• Strong knowledge of health & safety legislation and audit requirements
• Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and customers
• Experience managing and developing teams, with a collaborative leadership style
• Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills, with a track record of driving improvement

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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