SHE Manager

The Vacancy

🌍 Join WPS as a SHE Manager – National Role 🏗️

Are you passionate about creating safer, healthier, and more sustainable workplaces? 💚 WPS is on the lookout for an experienced and inspiring SHE Manager to lead our Safety, Health & Environmental agenda across the UK.

🔍 About the Role

As a SHE Manager, you’ll be a key player in shaping and delivering our SHE strategy nationwide. Reporting to the Head of SHEQ, you’ll provide expert guidance, coaching, and leadership to ensure our policies are not only understood but embedded in everything we do. You’ll work closely with business boards, regional leaders, and supply chain partners to champion a culture of safety and continuous improvement. 🚀

✅ What You’ll Be Doing

• 🧭 Lead the deployment of WPS SHE policies and standards across the business.
• 🧠 Coach senior leaders on risk identification and mitigation.
• 🔍 Oversee incident investigations and ensure high-quality reporting and learning.
• 📊 Drive the use of digital tools like EcoOnline and PowerBI for SHE performance tracking.
• 🏗️ Support bid and pre-construction activities with a focus on safe design.
• 🤝 Build strong networks within the supply chain to promote SHE best practices.
• 📈 Present SHE dashboards and insights at board level, influencing strategic decisions.

🌟 What We’re Looking For

• 🗣️ A confident communicator with strong influencing and coaching skills.
• 🧑‍💼 Proven leadership in SHE within construction or industrial environments.
• 📚 Deep understanding of SHE legislation and behavioural safety.
• 📉 Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• 🌟 A role model for SHE and leadership behaviours.

🎓 Qualifications

• ✅ CMIOSH or equivalent.
• 🎓 NEBOSH Diploma / NVQ Level 4 or equivalent.

💼 Why Join WPS?

This is a national role offering full mobility across our business units. You’ll be at the forefront of shaping a safer, healthier, and more sustainable future for our people and projects. 🌱 If you’re ready to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

One of the Recruitment Team will be in contact to discuss the role in more detail and advise of the next step.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.