Citrus Recruit are excited to be recruiting for a Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Manager working within Transportation and Haulage industry.

This is a hands-on, operational role where you’ll work closely with senior leadership, transport and warehouse teams to embed a strong safety-first culture, ensure legal and customer compliance, and drive continuous improvement across multiple sites.

You’ll play a key role in reducing risk, improving quality standards, and supporting safe, efficient logistics operations nationwide.

Responsibilities & day to day duties

As SHEQ Manager, you will be responsible for:

Leading and continuously improving SHEQ performance across haulage, warehousing and yard operations
Developing, implementing and maintaining SHEQ policies, procedures and safe systems of work
Ensuring compliance with UK Health & Safety legislation (including HSW Act, RIDDOR, COSHH, PUWER, LOLER where applicable)
Conducting site inspections, depot audits, vehicle and yard safety checks.
Investigating accidents, incidents and near misses, completing root cause analysis and managing corrective actions
Managing SHEQ reporting, including statutory reporting and internal performance metrics
Delivering SHEQ training, toolbox talks and safety briefings for drivers, warehouse and office staff
Acting as the main point of contact for enforcement bodies (HSE, DVSA, Environment Agency)
Managing environmental compliance including waste, spill prevention, pollution control and sustainability initiatives
Maintaining quality systems and supporting internal and customer audits (ISO standards where applicable)
Monitoring KPIs and producing regular SHEQ performance reports
Championing a proactive safety culture and coaching managers to improve SHEQ ownership

Skills & experience required.

Proven experience in a SHEQ / Health & Safety management role within haulage, logistics, transport or warehousing
Develop and maintain quality systems aligned to business requirements (e.g. ISO 9001/14001/45001 where applicable)
Strong working knowledge of UK SHEQ legislation and its practical application in operational environments
NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
Confident, credible communicator able to engage drivers, warehouse teams and senior management
Experience conducting audits, investigations and compliance reporting
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple sites and priorities
Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to depots and customer sites

Benefits

Up to 45k (dependent on experience)
Pension scheme
28 days holiday including bank holidays
Ongoing training and professional development support
A key role influencing SHEQ standards across a growing logistics operation

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