Hazardous Environments Specialist

PlusNet; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus

Private GP 24/7

Carers leave

Maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Product discounts

Pension scheme

Holiday purchase

Job summary

BT plc is seeking a Hazardous Environments Specialist to enhance health, safety and environmental management across our UK property estate. You will manage risks related to asbestos, legionella, lead and radon, providing expert technical advice and helping deliver high-risk HSE programmes.

Role involves monitoring performance, supporting audits, and collaborating with internal teams and external partners to continually improve hazardous environment management.

Qualifications

• Asbestos management knowledge including identification assessment and mitigation in buildings/workplaces.
• Ability to interpret and communicate HSE information to diverse audiences.
• Experience working within a multi-site complex environment with relevant legislation and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Translate hazardous environments policies into onsite solutions (asbestos, legionella, lead, radon).
• Manage hazardous substance incidents with investigation and escalation.
• Maintain Hazardous substance management systems (AlphaTracker).
• Provide specialist risk advice across the property estate and workplace operations.
• Monitor performance indicators, audits and compliance; escalate weaknesses.

Skills

Asbestos management

HSE risk guidance

Risk communication

Audits & incident management

Education

BOHS P402/P404/P405

Tools

AlphaTracker

Job description

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Job Title: Hazardous Environments Specialist

Job Function: Risk, Compliance and Assurance

Division: Finance & Business Services

Job Location: GBR-Manchester-New Bailey

Advertised Salary: Competitive with great benefits

About the role

As a Hazardous Environments Specialist, you’ll help maintain high standards of health, safety and environmental management across our diverse UK property estate. You’ll play a key role in managing risks associated with hazardous environments and substances, including asbestos, legionella, lead and radon.

You’ll provide specialist technical advice, support the delivery of high-risk HSE programmes and help ensure we meet our legal and moral responsibilities. Working with internal teams, external stakeholders and strategic partners, you’ll monitor performance, manage incidents and identify opportunities to continually improve how hazardous environment risks are managed.

What you’ll be doing

• Translate hazardous environments policies into effective onsite solutions covering asbestos, legionella, lead, radon and other hazardous substances.
• Manage hazardous substance incidents, ensuring appropriate action, investigation and escalation.
• Maintain hazardous substance management systems, including AlphaTracker, ensuring records remain accurate and up to date.
• Provide specialist technical and risk advice across the property estate, workplace operations and wider business.
• Monitor performance indicators, audit actions and compliance requirements, escalating weaknesses or failures when required.
• Analyse management information and performance data to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain relevant policies, procedures, databases and processes in line with statutory and business requirements.
• Support audits, investigations and high-risk HSE programmes, working with internal teams, external stakeholders and outsourced suppliers.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Practical knowledge and experience of asbestos management, including identifying, assessing and managing asbestos-related risks within buildings or workplace environments.
• Relevant asbestos training or qualifications, such as BOHS P402, P404 or P405, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working within HSE in a complex or multi-site environment, with an understanding of relevant legislation, policies and compliance requirements.
• Ability to provide clear technical guidance, assess risk and communicate HSE information effectively with different audiences.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Knowledge or experience of other hazardous environment risks, including Legionella, radon and lead.
• Experience supporting the development and implementation of practical hazardous environment solutions.
• Experience supporting hazardous substance incidents, investigations, audits or assurance activities.
• Ability to use data and management information to monitor performance, identify trends and support decision-making.
• Experience collaborating with internal teams, suppliers and other stakeholders to deliver HSE activities.
• Additional relevant training, qualifications or professional membership in areas such as occupational hygiene, water management, IOSH or radon management.

Our Package

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks' full pay and 8 weeks' half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you're ready.

BT Group is the UK's leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country's most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group's role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country's most important companies.