HSE Senior Engineer

Health, Safety and Environment Engineer – Senior

County Durham, UK | Fully Onsite

Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing | Global Fortune 500 (Confidential)

Lead. Influence. Drive Safety Excellence.

An exceptional opportunity for an experienced Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Engineer to step into a high-impact, visible role with a global engineering leader. This role is suited for influential professionals who are ready to set site direction, foster culture, and implement best-in-class systems that ensure safety, compliance, and business continuity.

This is not a compliance checking position – it is a strategic and technical HSE leadership role with the scope to shape site culture, deliver improvement programmes, and support multi-disciplinary colleagues in a high-performance manufacturing environment.

What You’ll Gain

• Ownership of site-level HSE programmes and strategy
• Direct exposure to senior operational leadership and cross-functional teams
• Influence over risk controls, compliance, and safety initiatives
• Opportunity to design and lead training, audits, and continuous improvement
• Internationally benchmarked working practices and tools
• A platform for future career progression within a globally recognised engineering environment

Your Impact

• Promote and embed a positive health, safety, and environmental culture
• Design, implement, and manage proactive HSE controls and programmes
• Provide technical expertise and coaching to manufacturing, engineering, and facilities teams
• Lead risk and environmental aspect identification, as well as root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Evaluate, interpret, and communicate HSE legal compliance and audit results at site level
• Lead training and internal communications on hazard prevention and safe working practices
• Ensure adherence to internal standards and the latest regulatory requirements
• Coach and develop others in safe behaviours, technical compliance, and HSE innovation

You’ll Bring

• Degree or equivalent in Health, Safety, Environmental or STEM discipline
• Professional HSE certification preferred
• Proven experience designing and implementing HSE programmes in manufacturing, engineering, or comparable technical environments
• Strong knowledge of industrial safety standards, risk control hierarchy, and regulatory frameworks
• Skilled in root cause analysis, incident investigation, and HSE management systems
• Collaborative and pragmatic communicator able to partner with all levels from the shop floor to senior leadership
• Data-driven mindset with experience using audit findings and metrics to drive continual improvement
• Courage and influence to challenge, educate, and set standards within a high-accountability environment

Additional Information

• Standard daytime office hours, Monday-Thursday 8am-4:30pm, Friday 8am-1:30pm
• Initial travel required (up to 20% in first 3-4 months for training), then fully based onsite

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