Salary: £52,000 - £56,000

Ricardo’s Performance Products division are seeking a Health and Safety Manager who will be responsible for the management of all health and safety systems associated with a manufacturing and assembly environment at all the Ricardo Performance products, including The Midlands Technical Centre, Shoreham Technical Centre and, from July 2025, the Detroit Technical Centre, to ensure all colleagues work in safe conditions.

Key accountabilities

• Ensure compliance with internal and external standards and that our management system and quality policies are efficient and effective.
• Undertake internal audits and, with the Site Operations Directors, ensure actions are closed out in a satisfactory manner and timescales.
• Co-ordinate (and lead where appropriate) the investigation and escalation of H&S reported incidents.
• Identify local H&S training needs, including for the RPP Board and BLT and undertake risk assessments.
• Assist and provide advice regarding the development, maintenance, review, production and implementation of risk assessments, safe systems of work and provision and use of appropriate protective equipment as well as facilitating development training.
• Organise RPP H&S meetings at each site, which should be chaired by the relevant Site Operations Director.
• Report to the RPP Board, at its monthly meeting, on Health & safety matters, progress, and concerns.
• Participate in Ricardo Group HSEQ meetings as required and ensure best practice is shared with the Ricardo PLC Business Partner.
• Collaborate with RPLC Business Partner with respect to Group Reporting Audits.

Technical skills, experience, and knowledge

• Fellow Member of IOSH
• NEBOSH Certificate or Diploma
• Relevant PUWA certificate
• Experience of Integrated Systems and ISO45001, ISO14001 and ISO9001
• Prior work experience within an engineering/manufacturing environment
• Proven communication skills with the ability to influence others
• Good IT skills
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple demands within a matrix-managed business
• Ability to conduct internal audits and provide support to external auditors
• Internal Auditor trained
• Knowledge and experience of confined-space working, working at height, CDM and COSHH

Desirable

• Prior work experience within a Quality environment · OSHA Certificate and/ or knowledge of U.S. manufacturing operations

Working with Ricardo

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Wellbeing and work life balance

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.

Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.