Health & Safety Divisional Lead

Location: Covering Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland
Salary: £58,000 - £67,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus up to 10% bonus and Sodexo benefits
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent

Are you an experienced Health & Safety professional with a strong Facilities Management (FM) background, ready to make a real impact across complex, high-profile environments?

Join Sodexo as a Health & Safety Divisional Lead and take a leading role in driving a proactive zero-harm culture across our operations. This is an opportunity to bring your expertise to a diverse FM environment, partnering with operational teams, clients and senior stakeholders to strengthen safety standards and continually improve how we work.

About the Role

As Health & Safety Divisional Lead, you’ll provide expert H&S leadership and support across multiple sites and service areas, helping our teams embed best practice and maintain the highest standards of safety and compliance.

You will:

• Lead and promote a strong safety culture across multiple sites and FM operations.
• Provide expert H&S guidance across technical, catering, cleaning, security and front-of-house services.
• Conduct audits, inspections, risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Support GMP environments, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and legislation.
• Provide H&S leadership throughout mobilisations, contract transitions and new site implementations.
• Lead on fire safety, emergency preparedness and business continuity.
• Deliver H&S training and support operational teams in embedding best practice.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, clients and operational teams to drive continual improvement.

What you'll bring

We’re looking for an experienced Health & Safety professional who combines strong technical knowledge with the confidence to influence and build trusted relationships across complex FM operations.

You’ll bring:

• A relevant Diploma or equivalent qualification in Occupational Health & Safety.
• Strong Facilities Management experience, ideally across complex or multi-service environments.
• Experience working within GMP / regulated environments.
• Experience supporting mobilisations and contract transitions.
• Relevant Fire Safety qualifications and strong knowledge of fire safety requirements.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, incident investigation and H&S legislation.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• A practical, proactive and solutions-focused approach.

If you’re someone who can combine strong H&S expertise with an ability to engage, influence and support operational teams, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact across a diverse and complex environment.

What we offer

Alongside a competitive salary of £58,000 - £67,000 depending on experience, you’ll receive:

• Up to 10% bonus
• 24/7 virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme
• Sodexo discounts across 1,900+ retailers
• Pension and life assurance
• Learning and development opportunities
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Enhanced benefits and leave policies

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you for you.
Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.
Thrive in your own way.

If you’re an experienced Health & Safety professional with a strong FM background and the expertise to influence safety standards across complex environments, we’d love to hear from you.

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As a global leader in services that improve Quality of Life, we bring together our expertise across Food Services and Facilities Management to support our clients, colleagues and communities.

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re also a Disability Confident Leader employer and are committed to changing attitudes towards disability and ensuring disabled people have the opportunity to fulfil their aspirations.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Divisional Health and Safety Lead

• £58,000 - £67,000 + Sodexo benefits per annum
• Car / Car allowance
• 10% Annual bonus per annum
• Hybrid working (Covering Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland)
• Flexible working
• Monday - Friday

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.