Health and Safety Business Partner

Last Mile Group; Manchester; Remote; GBP 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading utilities company as a Health & Safety Business Partner. You will provide expert guidance on health, safety, and compliance, ensuring legal requirements are met while promoting a strong safety culture. This remote role involves regular travel across the North of England, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

25 days holiday, increasing after 2 years

Discretionary bonus

EV and ULEV salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme

Up to 7% employer pension contribution

Life assurance (x4 annual basic salary)

Refer a friend incentive

Wagestream

Employee assistance programme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Solid experience in health, safety and compliance in utility/construction sector.
• Detailed knowledge of health, safety & environmental legislation.
• Experienced in risk assessment and risk management techniques.

Responsibilities

• Audit working practices to ensure compliance and identify improvements.
• Conduct regular site inspections and safety meetings.
• Undertake accident investigations and prepare reports.

Skills

Health and Safety Compliance

Risk Assessment

Auditing

Training

Education

ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001 knowledge

Job description

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Monday-Thursday 08:30-17:00 and Friday 08:30-16:00

Up to £52,215 DOE + car allowance

Working Hours: 37

Location: Manchester

Closing Date: 31/05/2025

Job Category: Health, Safety, Risk and Compliance

Company: Last Mile Infrastructure

Contractual Base: Remote / Home-based

Job Introduction

Health & Safety Business Partner – North England

Step into a leading utilities company that champions innovation and service excellence. At Last Mile, we take pride in delivering top-quality solutions across the multi-utility sector. Our Health and Safety team in South England is expanding, and we're looking for a skilled Health & Safety Business Partner to join us.

As a Health and Safety Business Partner, reporting to the Health and Safety Manager for Design and Build, you’ll provide expert guidance on health, safety, and compliance, driving a strong safety culture across our operations. You'll ensure legal and regulatory requirements are met while striving to exceed industry standards.

Your home address will be your primary place of work, with regular travel to offices and sites across the North of England and North Wales. This role requires a proactive and hands-on approach to supporting teams across the region.

What’s in it for you as a Health & Safety Business Partner?

Here at Last Mile, we pride ourselves in providing a competitive salary of up to £52,215 DOE and a great range of benefits including a fantastic amount of annual leave, including a Christmas shut down.

• 25 days holiday, increasing after 2 years by 1 day each year up to 30 days, plus 9 public holidays
• Discretionary bonus
• EV and ULEV salary sacrifice scheme (subject to minimum length of service)
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
• Up to 7% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance (x4 annual basic salary)
• Refer a friend incentive
• Wagestream
• Employee assistance programme
• Flexible start and finish times for eligible roles*
• Private medical insurance*
• Company sick pay*

*Some of our benefits are only applicable when you have successfully completed your probation period*

Your responsibilities as a Health & Safety Business Partner:

• Audit working practices to ensure that they are safe, comply with legislation and identify any improvements that could reduce risk.
• Carry out regular site inspections to ensure that policies and procedures are properly implemented and are being followed. Travel to sites regularly (approximately 3 days per week) across your region, carrying out inspections to ensure policies and procedures are properly implemented and are being followed.
• Conduct safety meetings, briefings, safety campaigns, training, safety initiatives about health and safety issues and risks and promote a safe working environment.
• Providing risk-based coaching to operatives to help them better understand the risks associated with the works they are undertaking.
• Work with your peers to review the findings of audits and inspections and develop initiatives or changes that will make improvements.
• Undertake accident and incident investigations and prepare reports.
• Support in the closure of Non-Conformances to ensure that any learning points or corrective actions are implemented within the business.
• Support the Project Management team with audits, advice, and CDM assistance and provide safety coaching and guidance in complex situations. Conduct safety inductions for new employees and regular refresher courses for existing staff.
• Contribute to the review, development, implementation, and maintenance of Last Mile’s health, safety and compliance policies, procedures, and standards to ensure they are up to date, appropriate, proportionate, and consistent across the business, keeping track of industry changes.

Experience / Knowledge:

• Solid experience in a health, safety and compliance role in utility/construction sector (or ex-military).
• Detailed knowledge of current health, safety & environmental legislation, and its application within the utility industry.
• Experienced in risk assessment, auditing, and risk management techniques.

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of ISO 9001; ISO 14001 & ISO 45001.

Have you got the drive to go to the Last Mile as a Health & Safety Business Partner? Apply now!

We aim to keep candidates informed throughout the process and encourage you to apply promptly as we may close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

About us:

Last Mile is one of the largest last-mile multi-utility businesses in the UK.

We understand construction and we know utilities. We take responsibility for the ‘last mile’ of infrastructure that connects developments to wider distribution networks.

Our strong history in gas and electricity connections, deep knowledge of the industry and secure investor backing means we can provide a comprehensive multi-utility solution that includes clean (ground source) heat networks, electricity, water and wastewater.

Working through our operating companies UKPS (in South of England and Wales), Energetics (in Scotland, North Wales and the North of England) and our asset adoption business Last Mile Asset Management , we offer a ‘one-stop shop’ for new utility connections.