9528 - MoJ Property Directorate - Construction Health and Safety Manager

Ministry of Justice; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental organization is seeking an expert to lead health and safety for construction projects within the portfolio. You will ensure compliance with regulations, support project delivery, and engage stakeholders at various levels. Experience in construction health and safety along with relevant certifications is essential. This is a vital role in enhancing safety across significant infrastructure projects for the government.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing health and safety in construction environments.
• Technical knowledge of health and safety regulations and compliance standards.
• Strong analytical skills to improve health and safety processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical support to ensure safe construction project delivery.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders at regional and national levels.
• Conduct inspections, monitoring, and audits across construction projects.
• Facilitate health and safety reporting to stakeholders.

Skills

Health and Safety Compliance

Construction Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Accident Investigation

Health and Safety Cultivation

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Relevant Health and Safety Certifications

Job description

Overview

The MoJ Property Directorate is a customer focused organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their very best. We do this by providing high quality, easy to use services, and working environments that our customers want to work in, which support them to deliver their individual outputs efficiently.

Our job is to manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – hosted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The MoJ Property Directorate brings together a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation, and MoJ HQ and Arm’s Length Bodies.

MoJ Property provides specialist services including facilities management, health and safety, fire safety and security, technical design expertise, and sustainability. We also have business management teams who support the entire Directorate and each of our partners is supported by account management teams.

We are responsible for a great deal - our portfolio consists of properties valued at £8.5bn for the MoJ alone. We are part of the Government Property Profession (GPP) and through active membership and engagement we will work with the Office of Government Property to develop the maturity of the profession and also encourage our people to join the GPP. We continue to build our capability through training and recruitment, aspiring to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a directorate.

We continue to deliver new ways of working across our portfolio – leading on the scale and pace of activity for central government – proposing ways to achieve, and then providing more dynamic and flexible workspace, while driving down the cost of the estate.

Team Overview

The post holder will support the senior management team, accountable to the Agency’s Construction H&S Lead for the successful, timely and quality delivery of construction projects across the MoJ Estate.

The post will lead as an expert in Health and Safety (H&S) ensuring that construction projects are legally compliant, building towards having industry leading construction projects where H&S and building safety compliance is the number one priority. They will engage across the civil service, develop our internal capability, and analyse projects to target interventions.

Job Description, Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include the following:

This role is responsible for:

• The strategic and technical support to the MoJ Property directorate, ensuring the safe delivery of construction projects.
• Technical support of health and safety and building safety aspects across the MoJ Property cluster.
• Supporting with the team’s outputs, training requirements plus its delivery and continuously promoting a positive H&S culture.
• Ensuring personal development and professional accreditations are kept up to date.
• Attend management meetings as required and facilitate with the presentation of health and safety reporting internally and externally to customers.
• Undertake a continuous improvement approach to the account, seeking to present and provide solutions and operational improvements.
• Business interfaces and front-line customer and stakeholder engagement at a regional and national level.
• Supporting health and safety initiatives across the prison infrastructure portfolio working on roughly £4bn of construction projects over the next five years, and beyond.
• Ensure health and safety risk management actions are in place and are actioned accordingly.
• Undertaking accident investigations and ensuring all data systems are updated.

Managing the Estate

• Act as a key member of the prison infrastructure team.
• Manage as required the provision of reactive and planned interventions across projects to ensure that health and safety and building safety is considered as the number one priority by customers, consultants and contractors, as well as civil servants, across a wide-ranging number of national construction projects.
• Undertake a system of inspections, monitoring and audits across our construction projects.
• Support the delivery of expansions to the prison estate and assist in ensuring this is managed, monitored and reported in an accurate and timely manner.
• Provide meaningful input to all teams to help drive performance improvement through analysis of management information and reporting.
• Provide technical guidance to the prison infrastructure team to leverage knowledge from the data and translate into improvements in processes, specifications or services.
• Work collaboratively with others across MoJ Property to set actions and resolve escalated issues.
• Actively participate in the prison infrastructure team, MOJ Property Directorate, wider MOJ and industry networks to share best practice to overcome specific and generic blockers to effective health and safety management.

Note: This role will involve working on the MoJ Estate as part of the prison infrastructure team and MOJ Property Directorate, with engagement across the wider MOJ and industry networks.

Location preference information is captured during the application process. The application window for this campaign remains open until December 2025. Applications will be screened, interviewed and onboarding procedures conducted throughout the duration of the campaign. Being successful and placed on the merit list does not guarantee an offer of employment. For a full list of offices, please refer to the MoJ National Office Network Map.