Health Safety & Environment Manager - Home start covering the South West area

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for?

We’re looking for someone to assist the HS&E Senior Manager to deliver on Health, Safety & Environmental (HS&E) legislative compliance, whilst striving for continuous improvement in the areas of HS&E performance.

You’ll be responsible for providing a comprehensive HS&E advisory service, delivering a high level of support to Operations and the wider business to reduce risk to colleagues, contractors and the general public.

We’ll trust you to:

• Manage a team of HS&E Advisors, including administrative and contract resources to enable the provision of technical expertise, advice and support to Operations and the wider business as required.
• Manage the review, development and/or update of WWU HS&E procedures, taking account of new or changing legislation, regulatory and company requirements.
• Provide support in formulating and developing action plans to continually improve HS&E management control and performance where necessary, throughout Operations.
• Support the management of WWU operational HS&E policies and procedures, providing advice and guidance to WWU managers, supervisors and employees to ensure a consistent understanding and implementation.
• Support the application of near miss/accident/incident reporting, including the investigation, communication and close out of lessons learned.
• Support, review and develop the company H&S risk assessment process.

You can read a full job description here.

You’ll need to have:

• Qualified as an experienced health and safety professional (CMIOSH status preferred, or with qualifications that enable the candidate to work towards CMIOSH status).

• Supervisory experience an advantage; incorporated gas engineer or manager status or working towards it is desirable.

• Ability to demonstrable effective senior stakeholder engagement; bridging the gap between HS&E and other business functions.
• Skilled in assessment, inspection and audit of site management and working practices (inc. hazard identification).
• Skilled in behavioural safety coaching; effective in taking more formal intervention to ensure compliance where necessary.
• Proficient in accident and/or incident investigations, producing detailed reports which identify immediate and underlying causes, offering recommendations for action to ensure compliance with H,S&E legislation and guidance.

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role!

As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary starting at 60,208 rising to £68,802
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards
• Living Wage Accredited Employer
• Award winning employer for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing’ and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Comprehensive training

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

You can find out more here.

Interested?

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!

To apply, click the link below.

If you would prefer to complete your application form in an alternative format such as Microsoft Word or would like to discuss the role in a little more detail, please contact us at recruitment@wwutilities.co.uk or on 07971 038 982.

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.

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