SHEQ & Assurance Manager

· SHEQ Leadership & Culture: Develop and implement Indigo's global SHEQ strategy, championing a proactive safety culture and ensuring health, safety and wellbeing are embedded in operational decision making.

· Leadership & Accountability: Provide visible leadership and challenge where standards are compromised, promoting ownership of SHEQ performance across operational and functional leaders rather than SHEQ carrying the responsibility alone.

· Governance & Assurance: Develop and maintain Indigo's SHEQ Assurance Framework, providing independent oversight of operational controls, governance arrangements, risk management and corrective actions.

· Operational Risk: Lead the identification, assessment and mitigation of operational risk, maintaining effective risk registers, governance forums and escalation processes for significant risks and control failures.

· Compliance & Audit: Maintain compliance with relevant legislation, customer requirements and industry standards, leading internal and external audit programmes and managing ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certification requirements.

· Incident & Improvement Management: Lead investigations into incidents, non-conformances and significant operational events, driving robust root cause analysis, effective corrective actions and sustainable improvements.

· Environmental & Sustainability: Lead Indigo's environmental management programme, ensuring compliance with environmental obligations and supporting delivery of ESG, carbon reduction and wider sustainability objectives.

· Service Partner Assurance: Establish and oversee assurance programmes for service partners, subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring consistent SHEQ standards, competency, accreditation, training and corrective action requirements across all regions.

· Performance & Insight: Develop SHEQ dashboards, leading and lagging indicators and executive reporting, using data and trends to identify emerging risks, measure performance and drive proactive intervention.

· Continuous Improvement: Use audit findings, operational insight, data and industry benchmarking to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen the effectiveness of Indigo's SHEQ systems and controls.

· Team & Capability: Lead, mentor and develop the SHEQ team while building wider organisational capability through training, coaching and awareness programmes.

· Executive Partnership: Act as Indigo's senior SHEQ subject matter expert, providing executive leadership with clear, evidence-based advice on risk, compliance, performance and strategic SHEQ priorities.

· Senior SHEQ Leadership: Proven senior leadership experience within SHEQ, Assurance, Compliance, Health & Safety or Risk Management, ideally within complex, field-based operational environments.

· Strategic SHEQ Experience: Experience developing and implementing SHEQ strategies, management systems and assurance frameworks across multiple operational sites, regions or business units.

· Operational Assurance: Strong experience in operational risk management, audit, assurance, compliance and corrective action, with the ability to identify control weaknesses and drive meaningful improvement.

· Safety & Environmental Expertise: Experience managing ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management systems, alongside a strong understanding of relevant health, safety and environmental legislation.

· Service Partner Management: Experience managing SHEQ standards and assurance across suppliers, subcontractors or service partners, ideally within a complex outsourced or partner-led operating model.

· Influential Leadership: Able to challenge constructively, influence senior stakeholders and build genuine ownership of SHEQ performance across an organisation.

· Data & Risk: Confident using performance data, trends and risk information to identify emerging issues, inform decision making and communicate clearly with executive leadership.

· Qualifications: NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6 Occupational Health & Safety qualification is essential. Professional membership of a recognised body such as IOSH, IEMA or equivalent and a relevant Lead Auditor qualification are required. A degree or equivalent relevant experience.

· Driving Licence: Full UK driving licence.

· Desirable: CMIOSH, IEMA Practitioner, ISO 14001 Lead Auditor, Project Management or ESG/Sustainability qualifications.

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