Director of Safety Assurance

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Director of Safety Assurance to lead their safety assurance team. This role involves developing safety strategies, managing risks, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in health and safety leadership within the residential sector and will be responsible for fostering a culture of safety improvement across the organization.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension Contributions

Life Assurance

Discounted Gym Membership

Qualifications

• Experience in health & safety leadership in residential built environment.
• Expert in providing management information and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage potential hazards and risks.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Promote a strong safety culture within the business.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Management

Safety Culture

Communication

Job description

Job Description

Your Role, Your Impact

As a Director of Safety Assurance, you will be an inspiring safety leader who will directly lead and manage the work of the safety assurance team. You will provide leadership in relentlessly developing industry and driving a culture of improvement within the business. This will involve leading the business to identify and mitigate risks and ensure compliance with standards. You will develop and implement tools to effectively audit, monitor and review safety performance in relation to building safety, fire safety and health and safety.

This role reports to the Director of Operational Excellence and will have up their own direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively identify and manage potential hazards and risks within the business
• Development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies to reduce or eliminate identified hazards.
• Advise the business on and set in place processes to adherence to relevant safety regulations, standards, and best practices
• Monitor and review safety management systems to ensure their effectiveness and continuous improvement, implementing improvements where required
• Promote and develop a strong safety culture within the business working closely with the senior leadership team
• Oversee the provision and effectiveness of safety training and education to employees
• Ensure major risks and safety incidents are reported and investigated to determine root causes and prevent recurrence by sharing learning
• Ensure a suitable audit programme is in place to identify potential hazards and ensure compliance
• Ensure key safety information is effectively communicated and share concerns with relevant stakeholders
• Collaborate with all key stakeholders to address safety issues
• Continuously look for areas for improvement in safety performance and work with business leaders to implement any necessary changes.
• Continuously horizon scan and stay up to date on the latest and up-coming safety agenda
• Be accountable to produce quality performance data, analysis and recommendations for the business
• Set up and maintain governance processes
• Build positive and open relationships with key stakeholders both inside and outside of the business
• Lead, mentor and coach the assurance team to develop and deliver clear improvement plans

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience of a health & safety leadership role in the residential built environment sector
• Experience in a H&S leadership role in medium to large sized organisation
• Able to develop and drive the implementation of health and safety strategies in collaboration with leadership teams
• Experience of leading and inspiring health and safety teams
• Expert in providing critical management information and giving high quality analysis
• Able to build and implement performance management and assurance controls
• Experience of running high level audit programmes
• Able to create simplicity out of complexity, an expert in shaping and delivering key messages to business leaders
• A proven agent of change

What’s in it for you?

Our customers deserve the best and the same applies to our people. We will provide you with the technology, training and support that you need to do your job well. We offer competitive salaries and a range of benefit packages depending on the grade of your role, such as private medical insurance, pension contributions and life assurance. In addition, we also offer a range of exclusive discounts on extra benefits to help you, and your family make the most of your money, safeguard your future and look after your health, including discounted gym membership for all colleagues.