Job Ref: 214835504

Date: 2021-10-06 16:26:40

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Senior Health and Safety Manager

Salary: Up to £65,000 + £550p/m car allowance + PHI, 15% Bonus

Location: Field based. Ideal base in anywhere between the Midlands to the South East.

Travel: Weekly travel for meetings, visits and as required.

Assured Safety Recruitment currently have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Health, Safety and Environment Manager to drive a world class safety performance as a key member of the UK safety team, servicing a home delivery business, with a number of fulfillment centres in the  South and the Midlands of the UK. The business aims to deliver a positive impact on local communities, the environment and their customers. The business is part of a large wider group who delivered strong financial results last year and continue to invest in their brand, infrastructure and people.

This role will lead a team of Regional Health & Safety Managers driving the safety culture through engagement and operational ownership of safe working practices. The role works closely with senior operations managers to embed a highly professional and thorough framework of world class safety standards. Having made some very significant progress in their safety journey, they now need the right person to continue this.

To deliver an effective framework for safety programme management ensuring that the plan risks and issues are effectively escalated and resolved internally.
To act as the safety competent person for the business unit, to deliver safety expertise, support, coaching and advice to the Operational Leadership Teams.
To deliver an effective framework of incident investigation, auditing, risk management and training oversight with primary focus on action closure across all sites.
To maintain the effective relationship for functional safety matters with the regulator/enforcing authority
To lead functional Health & Safety team in the successful implementation of the suite of safety metrics.
To lead the functional safety team using the specialist skills and knowledge of individual team members to focus on professional competencies, development and meeting all customer safety requirements
To performance manage, coach and develop direct reports and indirect reports where appropriate.
To maintain effective functional links with Group and designate safety technical expertise; contributing to and then delivering the national strategy, policy and standards
To deliver safety programme, initiatives and action plans for operational function with lead accountability for Health and Safety within the business unit.
To delivers expert support to serious incident investigation confirming causal factor identification is accurate and remedial actions implemented and effective.
To deliver a suite of agreed safety performance metrics against which performance and change activity will be measured and evaluated
To focus on Safe People, Safe Vehicles and safe journey principles.
Key skills & experience

NEBOSH Diploma as minimum or equivalent
Full driving license
Ability to achieve good working relationships with colleagues at all levels in the organization
Able to engage all safety stakeholders
Delivers inclusive practical/operational safety approaches
Ability to positively challenge and influence management teams in driving safety performance improvement
Passionate about safety and focused on achieving objectives
Able to promote a safe working culture and behaviors in others through coaching
Influence others through coherent explanations
Proven experience in delivering cultural change
Ability to provide practical risk control solutions
Administration skills / report writing / letter writing / data compilation and analysis
Ability to work under pressure & prioritise tasks
Experience in claims management

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