Nuclear Waste Services has a vacancy for a Health and Safety Manager (Standards & Assurance) to join its busy team, flexible working from Warrington
As part of this role, you will be:
- Championing health and safety across and related functions, along with supply chains and other key stakeholders in supporting the delivery of a positive health and safety culture through assurance activities
- Advising on conventional health and safety hazards, risks and requirements, and their effective management. Supports establishing conventional health and safety standards in line with legal, government and client requirements.
- Assuring the effective management of conventional health and safety hazards and risks to workers and others who may be affected by our activities, including its supply chain, whilst maintaining significant understanding on potential community impacts.
- At all times, ensuring our health and safety management system reliably delivers the required standards and requirements.
- Managing the continuous improvement of health and safety management system through assurance activity.
- Application of Learning from Experience to ensure that it remains suitable as our organisation and activities develop.
- Providing assurance to the Executive that established health and safety standards are consistently being delivered.
Responsible for establishing health and safety standards in line with legal, government and NDA Group requirements and the development and maintenance of health and safety arrangements.
- Champion health and safety and support the delivery of a positive health, safety culture within the organisation as a whole as part of the EHSSQ team.
- Ensuring the maintenance, development, and continuous improvement of our health and safety policies, procedures, and work instructions to meet organisational requirements and appropriate internal, external and international standards.
- Advise on health and safety requirements and good practice. This covers both day-to-day operations, as well as supporting the implementation of geological disposal through activities such as community engagement, site characterisation and the construction and operation of a geological disposal facility.
- Identify and support the implementation of health and safety improvements in line with business objectives.
- Assure the organisation that established health and safety standards are consistently delivered both internally and across the supply chain.
- The investigation, reporting and effective resolution of non-conformances with relevant health and safety standards.
Day-to-day management of health and safety aspects of organisational activities in relation to functional area responsibilities
- Support the Health and Safety Lead in ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of the health and safety related activities the organisation has agreed to carry out for itself, or for the NDA Group.
- Carry out and review health and safety risk assessments to ensure risks to the organisation, its supply chain and others who may be affected by our activities are effectively manged.
- Develop a programme of and undertake health and safety inspections and audits of our activities and those of our suppliers and partners.
- Oversee the adequacy of health and safety-related work carried out at externally managed/used premises or sites being worked on, to ensure appropriate standards are being met and maintained.
- NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent professional qualification.
- IOSH Membership or membership of equivalent professional body
- Significant understanding of health and safety good practice and proven experience of successfully developing and implementing health and safety improvement plans in relation to Site Operations
- The ability to articulate outcomes from tasks carried out through the Assurance Process at meetings with RWM colleagues, our supply chain and stakeholders and through reports fed back to Functional Leads and relevant persons
- Significant experience of ensuring research, community engagement, geological characterisation, site evaluation tasks and construction related projects are conducted in accordance with the relevant health and safety legislation, standards, guidance, and good practice.
- Significant experience of assuring health and safety management and developing reliable and resilient safety systems and processes
- Experience of writing policies procedures and reports to provide key findings and learning outcomes that will influence future decision making.
- Experience of investigating the direct and root causes of health and safety incidents and near misses to identify recommendations and actions to prevent recurrence
- Providing credible lead through and influence in relation to Learning from Experience following any reported incidents or near misses
- Experience of undertaking health and safety inspections, audits and using them with safety performance indicators to monitor organisational performance and target improvement activities.
- Experience of developing and delivering health and safety inductions, training, and briefings to a range of staff and contractors at all levels.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, the ability to work with a range of staff at all levels and attention to detail.
- Understanding of project management techniques and ensuring health and safety in the delivery of projects and programmes.
- On appointment to an RWM, full-time staff are entitled to a generous annual holiday allowance of 38 days’ annual leave. LLWR up to 43 days in addition to a buy/sell scheme
- Rewarding performance (bonus scheme)
- We offer a generous above average pension scheme
- learning and development support
- payment of relevant annual professional subscriptions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial advice assistance
- Flexible working
- Extended family-friendly policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- We welcome flexible and agile working practices
- Flexible working requests can be submitted from day 1 of employment
We value the unique differences that each of our colleagues bring to work every day and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to perform at their best. We are committed to creating a workplace that is diverse and inclusive. We value the diversity of our people and actively seek to have a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the communities we support. Currently we are underrepresented in some areas, and would particularly welcome applicants from Women, Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities, LGBTQ+ and candidates who have a disability.
In promoting equal opportunities, we welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We select people according to their abilities and our needs. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of disabled candidates who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.