Interim Quality, Environment, and H&S Director

This interim Quality, Environment, and H&S Director role is a strategic leadership position working with expert managers across the site in Gloucestershire and other locations. You will:

• Lead end-to-end Quality, Food Safety & Technical Governance ensuring full compliance with company standards, regulations and best practices.
• Deploy initiatives to safeguard product integrity, vulnerability assessments, food defence and fraud prevention.
• Own QEHS management systems and certifications (e.g., ISO, FSSC, AIB), sustaining operational excellence and audit readiness.
• Guarantee robust end-to-end traceability from raw materials to finished goods for rapid issue response.
• Lead technical and service teams for new product industrialisation and oversee incident management framework including escalation, root cause analysis, containment, CAPA and continuous improvement tools.
• Champion and lead full deployment of the EHS programme to build a proactive, prevention-driven culture focused on behaviours and risk elimination.
• Embed EHS principles into daily operations with site leaders and frontline teams to strengthen awareness, accountability and safe decision-making.
• Drive EHS strategy through structured cultural transformation including leadership visibility, safety conversations, observations and coaching.
• Ensure full compliance with environmental and safety regulations, managing waste, wastewater, recycling, emissions control and resource efficiency.
• Strengthen risk prevention, governance and performance tracking including hazard identification, risk assessments, near-miss reporting, safe systems of work and leading indicators.
• Shape and drive the QEHS strategy and roadmap for the UK business ensuring alignment with company direction and business needs.
• Provide financial leadership and oversight of QEHS variable spend including contracted services, laboratories and technical programmes.
• Build organisation capability through engagement, development, talent management and succession planning across QEHS and technical teams.
• Lead cross-functional and international projects ensuring capital investments meet QEHS requirements and are delivered safely, on time and within scope.