Health and Safety Manager

Job Title: Health & Safety Manager – Aviation

Location: Hybrid, within easy reach of London Heathrow, with regular UK travel

Salary: Up to £50,000 Depending on Experience per annum Plus up to 10% Bonus and £1,300 Flexible benefit Funds

Working Pattern: 40hrs to 48hrs per week / 5days over 7days

Job Introduction

Behind every relaxed airport lounge experience is a team making sure guests and colleagues are safe. At Sodexo Live!, our aviation business brings hospitality to life across a portfolio of around 17 lounges, and we’re looking for a Health & Safety Manager to help shape the standards that underpin that experience.

Joining our aviation senior team, you’ll work in a fast-paced environment where hospitality, safety and strong client relationships go hand in hand. With Heathrow as your main site and travel to airports including Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow, you’ll build relationships across a varied UK portfolio and see the impact of your work first hand.

This opportunity would suit someone with a catering background who enjoys working with people, has the confidence to challenge established ways of working and can turn safety requirements into practical solutions. You’ll have a voice in conversations with senior airline partners and operational leaders, helping everyone work towards shared standards while keeping an excellent guest experience in mind.

In return, you’ll have the autonomy to organise your diary, support from experienced health and safety colleagues and access to funded development opportunities. Whether you already work in a dedicated safety role or bring relevant qualifications and compliance experience from catering operations, this is an opportunity to develop your career in aviation hospitality.

What you’ll do

• Champion a positive health and safety culture across the aviation lounge portfolio, helping teams put safe working practices into action.
• Build strong relationships with airline clients, airport stakeholders and operational leaders, aligning Sodexo and client safety requirements and resolving challenges collaboratively.
• Support site teams with audits, inspections and preparation for Environmental Health Officer visits, ensuring actions are completed within agreed timescales.
• Guide managers through accident, near-miss and food safety incident reporting and investigations, identifying causes and practical measures to prevent recurrence.
• Work with culinary and lounge teams to maintain food safety standards, including effective hygiene and allergen controls.
• Identify training needs and support the delivery of practical guidance that builds confidence and capability across operational teams.
• Support new lounge mobilisations by establishing safety systems, documentation and a clear handover to site teams.
• Monitor compliance and safety performance, maintain accurate records and share findings with senior stakeholders to drive improvement.

What you’ll bring

• A NEBOSH qualification and Level 4 Food Safety qualification.
• Experience within catering, with a sound understanding of health and safety and food safety in an operational environment.
• Strong client-facing skills, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders, negotiate solutions and constructively challenge existing practices.
• Experience managing compliance, audits, risk assessments and incident investigations.
• The ability to translate policies and technical requirements into clear, practical advice for busy operational teams.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage your own diary and priorities across multiple locations.
• Good IT, reporting and data analysis skills, with close attention to detail.
• Flexibility to travel regularly across the UK, including overnight stays and occasional unsociable hours in line with a 24/7 aviation operation.
• Able to provide a five-year checkable history, obtain clear DBS clearance and complete General Security Awareness Training (GSAT) to meet airside pass requirements

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death-in-Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo Live!

At Sodexo Live!, 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 are a forces friendly 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.

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.

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

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