HS&W Manager

TN United Kingdom; Rochester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager, responsible for overseeing a team and enhancing H&S performance across the Southern Water Region. This role involves strategic support, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement, with a commitment to safety and environmental standards. Enjoy a hybrid work approach, generous benefits, and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

25 days annual leave

Life assurance equal to 4x salary

Salary sacrifice electric car scheme

Fully funded eye tests

Two paid volunteering days a year

Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

Study support for job-related qualifications

Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experienced H&S Manager with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of chemical and toxic gas risks.
• Driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Department in delivering the H&S strategy.
• Provide team leadership and act as a role model.
• Manage HSSW risks and ensure effective incident management.

Skills

Stakeholder management

People management

Risk management

Education

NEBOSH Diploma Level 6

CMIOSH (ideally)

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Job Title: Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager

Location: South East

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37/ week

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

In this role, you will be both hands on and an active people manager, looking after a team of 3 HSW advisors across the whole Southern Water Region, from Kent to Hampshire.

Day to day:

- Support the Head of Department in the delivery of the H&S strategy

- Provide team leadership

- Act as a role model for behaviours and values

- Take ownership of HSSW risks and hazards and relevant elements of the Safety management system to ensure that all risks and hazards are appropriately managed

- Drive continual improvement in HSSW performance
- Act as single point of contact for relevant Water Operations and Facilities internal stakeholders. Use clear leading and lagging indicators to baseline and track HSSW performance

- Strengthen the management of investigations to ensure effective root cause analysis and effective implementation of preventative and corrective actions

- Liaise and build valuable internal relationships and externally with supply chain partners and regulators to improve standards and HSSW performance.

- Act as on call HSSW as part of the 24/7 rota to ensure functional support for incident management.

About You

You will be an experienced H&S Manager, who has experience with people management as well as strong stakeholder management skills; with the ability to built rapport and offer advice and support to all internal stakeholders.

You will have experience in the utilities industry, with good knowledge of chemical and toxic gas risks.

You will have:

- NEBOSH Diploma Level 6 (or equivalent) and ideally CMIOSH

- Extensive experience in a H&S role

- Experience in the utilities industry

- Good working knowledge of the risks associated with chemical and toxic gas

- Ability to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders

- Driving licence and access to a vehicle

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working; normally 3 days on one of our sites, 2 days on home. This role will encounter extensive travel in the South East region.

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

• 25 days annual leave

• Life assurance equal to 4x salary

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)

• Full funded eye tests

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

• Cycle to work scheme

Join our HSW team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.