Role: Head of Health & Safety
Location: Home-based with regular sites visits across our operational area which extends across the west of England and throughout Wales. Gloucester, Bristol, Swindon and surrounding areas are central to our operations.
Salary: £70,000 to £80,000, depending on experience with up to 20% annual bonus and car allowance of £500 per month
Role Type: Permanent, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday) plus participating in a standby rota
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, car allowance, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, generous pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental benefits, comprehensive wellbeing and health programme and lots more!
From Stafford to Swindon and Porthmadog to Portsmouth, our Health & Safety team is at the heart of ensuring that our people, contractors and customers remain safe, whilst delivering the highest standards of compliance in operation and maintenance of infrastructure, water and wastewater services across more than 1,000 MOD sites. To help us continue fostering a strong safety culture and delivering excellence in health and safety performance, we are looking for a seasoned Health & Safety leader to help refine and deliver our safety strategy across the business.
We are seeking someone who is proactive, resilient and influential, with the expertise to drive health and safety compliance, support operational teams and promote best practice across a large and diverse estate. Whether your experience has been gained in construction, facilities management, utilities industry or another highly regulated environment, you will play a key role in helping us achieve our health and safety objectives while making sure we’re compliant with all relevant legislation, regulations and contractual requirements.
The Gloucester, Bristol, Swindon or surrounding areas are central to our operational area which extends across the west of England and throughout Wales.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and delivery of our Health & Safety strategy, ensuring objectives are achieved to target
- Provide expert health and safety advice, guidance and coaching to managers, enabling them to meet their legal and organisational responsibilities
- Own and identify continuous improvement opportunities for our policies, procedures, risk assessments and associated documentation and practices
- Drive compliance with health and safety legislation, governance requirements and ISO45001: 2018 standards
- Lead the investigation of serious incidents and support managers with root cause analysis, ensuring lessons learned are captured with changes implemented successfully across the business where required
- Champion a positive reporting culture for hazards, near misses and incidents, ensuring accurate reporting, timely investigations and effective corrective actions
- Lead, develop and inspire the Health & Safety team, promoting a safety-first culture and embedding best practice throughout the organisation
Essential Skill, Knowledge and Experience:
- Proven experience in a Health & Safety management role within an industrial, engineering, utilities or other highly regulated environment
- Demonstrable success in driving behavioural safety improvements and delivering positive culture change across a business with a predominantly field-based workforce
- Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation, risk management principles and industry best practice
- NEBOSH Diploma and/or Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH) or actively working towards achieving chartered status
- Demonstrable experience of leading and developing a small but skilled team of Health & Safety professionals
- Intermediate/Advanced experience within MS Office and H&S databases
- Experience of developing, auditing and improving Health & Safety Management Systems, including ISO45001: 2018 compliance and assurance activities
- Excellent communication, coaching and training skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, develop in-house and external H&S interventions and effectively manage competing priorities and deadlines
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must meet the UK SC Security Vetting requirements for the role which includes a full background check. In addition, you must possess a full, valid driving licence.
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Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.