QHSE Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Escape Recruitment Services
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: A QHSE Lead is sought by a well-established engineering and manufacturing business in Fife to oversee site-wide health, safety, environmental, and quality performance. This role involves leading a team, ensuring compliance with standards, and fostering a proactive safety culture within a busy production facility. The position requires a strong focus on HSE leadership and quality oversight, with responsibilities including audits, training, and stakeholder reporting. The ideal candidate will have a background in HSE or Quality, with experience in a leadership role within manufacturing or engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take full responsibility for site QHSE performance, policies and compliance
- Develop and maintain structured frameworks to support continuous improvement
- Lead internal audits, ensuring actions are implemented and standards upheld
- Produce regular performance reports for senior stakeholders
- Support the wider leadership team in driving a strong safety-first culture
- Manage and develop a small team, addressing skills gaps where needed
- Maintain risk assessments and environmental registers
- Ensure legal and internal compliance requirements are consistently met
- Lead investigations into incidents, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Coordinate training to maintain workforce competence
- Act as the main contact for regulatory bodies and external stakeholders
- Oversee quality activities, ensuring systems and processes remain effective
Key Skills:
- Background in HSE, Quality or a related discipline
- Experience managing ISO standards
- Proven track record in a similar leadership role within manufacturing or engineering
- Confident communicator, able to engage across all levels
- Experience developing teams and improving site performance
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Dunfermline
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
A well-established engineering and manufacturing business in Fife is looking to appoint a QHSE Lead to take ownership of site-wide health, safety, environmental and quality performance. This position sits within a busy production facility supporting complex mechanical systems and aftermarket services. The focus is heavily weighted towards HSE leadership, alongside oversight of the quality function through an established team. You’ll play a key role in shaping standards, ensuring compliance, and embedding a proactive culture across the site.
The Role
- Take full responsibility for site QHSE performance, policies and compliance
- Develop and maintain structured frameworks to support continuous improvement
- Lead internal audits, ensuring actions are implemented and standards upheld
- Produce regular performance reports for senior stakeholders
- Support the wider leadership team in driving a strong safety-first culture
- Manage and develop a small team, addressing skills gaps where needed
HSE & Quality Focus
- Maintain risk assessments and environmental registers
- Ensure legal and internal compliance requirements are consistently met
- Lead investigations into incidents, driving root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Coordinate training to maintain workforce competence
- Act as the main contact for regulatory bodies and external stakeholders
- Oversee quality activities, ensuring systems and processes remain effective
About You
- Background in HSE, Quality or a related discipline
- Experience managing ISO standards
- Proven track record in a similar leadership role within manufacturing or engineering
- Confident communicator, able to engage across all levels
- Experience developing teams and improving site performance
Get in touch with Stuart Barton at Escape Recruitment for further details