Job Title: H&S lead
Department: Drive To Thrive Team
Hours of work: 08:00 – 17:00 Mon – Thu / 08:00 – 16:00 Fri
The short version
We need a practical, confident Health and Safety Lead who keeps people safe, keeps the business compliant, and helps make good safety habits part of everyday life.
This is not a clipboard-and-tick-box role. It’s a busy, hands-on position at the heart of how the business runs day to day. If you like being in a factory environment, spotting risks before they become problems, supporting managers, and making sure people go home safe, you’ll feel right at home.
- Hours: 08:00–17:00 Monday to Thursday, 08:00–16:00 Friday
- Location: No 5, The Works, Waterside South, Lincoln, LN5 7JD (on site)
- Salary: £33,000.00 - £36,000.00
- Contract: Permanent
About us
We are Starglaze – a window and door company in Lincoln that genuinely doesn't think it's like every other window company. We're proud holders of the Investors in People Platinum award, which is the highest level there is, and it reflects how seriously we take looking after and developing our people.
Our purpose is simple: build lasting relationships through trusted quality, exceptional service and genuine care – looking after our people and our customers so tomorrow's better than today.
We're a real team. Nobody here works in a silo, and nobody's expected to know everything on day one. We'd rather you try things, ask questions and learn as you go than play it safe and stay quiet. As we like to say, a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new – what matters is that we learn from things, adapt and keep improving.
The Drive to Thrive Team is dedicated to driving continuous improvement across the site. Their vision is to improve COTIF (Correct On Time In Full), reduce CONC (Cost Of Non Conformance), and increase OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) while fostering a culture in which leaders own it, improve it, and make it stick.
To achieve these objectives, the team utilises a range of proven tools, processes, and initiatives, including:
- UPAS
- Risk Assessments
- Health & Safety Plans
- Health & Safety Reports
- Health & Safety Week
- Health & Safety Focus Days
- Health & Safety Champions
- Risk Reporter System
- TMS
Through these established methods, the Drive to Thrive Team supports operational excellence, enhances safety performance, and helps build a sustainable culture of continuous improvement across the site.
As part of the Starglaze Platinum Plus (SPP) programme, the Health & Safety Lead will benefit from ongoing coaching, mentoring and professional development from the CEO and Leadership Team. This investment reflects Starglaze's commitment to developing its people, providing the successful candidate with the opportunity to enhance their leadership capability, broaden their business knowledge, and contribute to the company's culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
What you'll actually be doing
The thread running through everything is the same: be visible, stay organised, keep on top of detail, follow things through, and help everyone understand that health and safety is part of the job, not an extra job. We have a strong leadership team who are all responsible for Health and Safety across site.
Here’s what that looks like day to day:
Every day
- Be pro-active in working to reduce the risk of accidents on site by carrying out regular site walks and checks across the workplace, spotting hazards, unsafe behaviours or anything that needs putting right.
- Follow up actions from inspections, audits, accident reports, near misses and risk assessments so they don’t sit on a list going nowhere.
- Support managers and team leaders with practical health and safety advice, helping them understand what needs doing and why it matters.
- Hold the leadership team accountable and aware of what is expected of them.
- Keep accident, incident, near-miss and hazard reporting moving properly, making sure information is recorded clearly and actions are followed through.
- Check key safety paperwork is up to date, including risk assessments, safe systems of work, training records, checks and registers.
- Work with production, installation, office and support teams to keep safety standards consistent across the business.
- Respond to health and safety queries as they come in, dealing with the urgent things quickly and keeping people updated on anything that needs more follow-up.
- Promote good safety habits through clear communication, reminders, toolbox talks and positive conversations on the shop floor.
- Dealing with visiting contractors and health and safety consultants.
Every week
- Pull together health and safety information, including accidents, near misses, outstanding actions, training updates and key trends.
- Review outstanding health and safety actions with managers and make sure owners, dates and next steps are clear.
- Keep notice boards, safety communications and key information current, clear and useful.
- Check that planned workplace inspections, equipment checks and routine safety reviews are being completed and recorded properly.
- Prepare health and safety updates for team briefs, meetings and internal communications.
- Support managers with toolbox talks, safety reminders and short refreshers where standards need reinforcing.
- Update training logs and help identify where refresher training, inductions or extra support are needed.
- Review daily shutdown sheets, fork truck checks and other routine safety checks, making sure issues are escalated and closed out.
Every month
- Support the monthly review of risk assessments, safety performance, audit findings and improvement plans.
- Having pulled together health and safety information, including accidents, near misses, outstanding actions, training updates and key trends. Use this information to compare performance against our H&S vision to achieve zero reportable accidents, new RA's rolled out across site, reduce minor injuries to less than 14, increase reported near misses to more than 75, increase reported unsafes to more than 1500, assist to the team achieve OEE of 80%, & embed Starglaze Platinum Plus
As needed
- Complete and review risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work where needed.
- Support accident and near-miss investigations, helping managers get to the root cause and agree sensible actions that prevent repeat issues.
- Deliver or support health and safety inductions for new starters, visitors and contractors.
- Help prepare for audits, external visits, insurance checks and any health and safety-related assessments.
- Report, escalate and follow up equipment, facilities or system issues that could affect safety.
- Other bits and pieces that will grow and change as you settle in, build relationships and make the role your own.
You’ll have proper responsibility from the start, and as you learn the business you’ll be trusted and supported to shape how health and safety is managed, communicated and improved.
What we're looking for
Above all, someone who is practical, visible and credible – the kind of person who can spot what needs doing, explain it clearly, and follow it through without making health and safety feel complicated for the sake of it.
You'll likely tick most of these:
- A good working knowledge of health and safety in a busy workplace, ideally manufacturing, production, construction, installation or a similar hands-on environment.
- Organised and reliable – you can manage inspections, actions, paperwork, deadlines and follow-ups without letting things drift.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy – you spot the missing check, the overdue action, the unsafe habit or the risk assessment that needs updating.
- Confident communicating with people at every level – from shop floor conversations to clear emails, reports and meeting updates.
- A chaser, not a waiter – happy to follow people up politely but firmly until actions are completed.
- Practical and hands-on – comfortable spending time where the work is happening, not just working from a desk.
- A positive, can-do attitude – you’d rather help people find a safer, better way than simply say “no”.
A recognised health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH General Certificate would be a strong advantage. What matters most is that you are credible, organised, willing to learn, and able to bring people with you.
In return, you’ll be backed by a leadership team who’ll support you, listen to your ideas and give you room to improve how we work safely.
What you'll get
- A friendly, busy team that genuinely looks out for each other.
- A proper focus on development, recognition and wellbeing – including our Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions and a buddy to help you settle in.
- Reward and recognition that actually happens – Employee of the Week/Month, long-service awards, birthday vouchers, Perkbox and regular "thank you" treats and events.
- A workplace that takes its people seriously (that Investors in People Platinum award isn't just for show).
Starglaze is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We're committed to an inclusive, neurodiversity-friendly recruitment process – if you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage to help you apply or interview at your best, just let us know and we'll sort it.
Pay: £33,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee mentoring programme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
