Health and Safety Manager - Property

ZipRecruiter; Bradford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Property sector seeks a Health & Safety professional to enhance their safety culture and compliance across various projects. This role involves continuous improvement initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring adherence to safety standards across all operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Health & Safety management.
• Experience in Property Health & Safety including construction.
• Incident investigation and management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve Health & Safety policies and strategies.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety legislation.
• Conduct audits and report on compliance and trends.

Skills

Communication

Analytical thinking

Engagement

Motivational skills

Coaching

Influencing

Customer focus

Risk identification

Tenacity

Job description

Job Description

Morrisons has a fantastic opportunity for a Health & Safety professional with a background in Property & Construction to be embedded within our Property team to support the teams to put Safety First in all that they deliver from design to construction and maintenance across our complex estate. You will ensure continuous improvement and implement best practice to keep our customers, colleagues, contractors and members of the public safe.

The role requires time with the team at our Head Office in Bradford but will involve some travel across the UK to stores and sites to review compliance and standards. This will include completion of recorded audits during visits and provision of support to ensure a safe working environment. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to meet existing objectives and lead on driving improvements in Health & Safety culture and compliance. Areas to be covered include, but are not limited to, Pre-Construction, Construction, Property Management and Maintenance

Reporting to the Head of Health & Safety, in summary you will be responsible for leading driving Safety across the Property division. This includes:

Managing and continuously improving Morrisons Property Health & Safety policies and ways of working

Developing and leading Health & Safety risk management strategies and frameworks across Property’s critical risk areas, supporting colleagues in their roles

Ensuring contractors, colleagues and visitors comply with Health & Safety legislation and adhere to all Morrisons policies and procedures in relation to safe working practises

Reviewing Health and Safety compliance on sites and delivering accurate reports and trends

Ensuring regular Health and Safety reviews which measure safe working practices are undertaken by others and are completed

Recording and reviewing statistical data of accidents, incidents and near misses

Proactively leading and supporting others during investigations, production of root cause analyses reports and subsequent remedial actions

Driving an open and honest environment with external contractors

Identifying and arranging training and guidance both in person and online to drive a progressive Health & Safety culture within Property.

Monitoring trends to ensure corrective actions are implemented and completed by managers

Leading Health and Safety when in attendance at site meetings in partnership with Principal Contractors/Contractors and listening and responding to issues and concerns

Proactively drive contractor and stakeholder meetings to build engagement, to provide information and trends which identify key concerns and to offer solutions for improvement

In-depth knowledge and experience of Property and Construction Health & Safety management systems including Fire

In-depth knowledge and understanding of Property Health & Safety and related legislation and its requirements

Knowledge of the Health & Safety requirements of Landlords and how these work in practice

Skills Required:

Excellent and strong communication, engagement and motivational skills

Excellent analytical skills and ability to produce management information in impactful ways

Ability to coach to drive performance improvement

The ability to engage with colleagues at all levels to drive improvements

Ability to influence business decisions that impact on Health & Safety and legality

The ability to champion the customer and retain a customer focus whilst keeping Health & Safety at the forefront

Ability to identify risk and prioritise tasks

Tenacity to follow up and resolve issues

Analytical thinking

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years experience in Health & Safety management

Experience working in a complex organisation with multiple Stakeholders

Experience working in Property Health & Safety including construction

Incident investigation and management