Health & Safety Lead — Marine & Port Operations

UKHMA; Tendring; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Wellbeing support

Learning & development opportunities

Job summary

Harwich Haven Authority is seeking a Health & Safety Manager to lead safety across our marine, operational and shore-based activities. You will coordinate emergency preparedness, incident response and risk management to ensure readiness when it matters most.

You will bring substantial health and safety and emergency planning experience in harbour/port environments, with the ability to influence peers, drive continuous improvement and communicate complex information clearly.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health and safety, emergency preparedness, marine or port operations, emergency planning or another safety-critical environment.
• Ability to influence others, challenge unsafe practice, and translate complex information into clear, practical action.
• Experience in harbour authority, port, terminal, shipping company, emergency service or other safety-critical/high-risk industry.
• Knowledge of emergency planning, incident management and multi-agency response.
• Experience developing, maintaining and exercising contingency or emergency plans.
• Excellent communication, influencing, analytical and organisational skills.
• Experience of ISO 45001 and professional body memberships (IOSH/IFE/CMI).
• NEBOSH General Certificate/Diploma or equivalent safety qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety management across marine, engineering, operational and shore-based activities.
• Deliver inspections and audits, and support risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Lead emergency plans, procedures, communications and response arrangements.
• Plan desktop exercises, drills and multi-agency exercises.
• Coordinate marine pollution and oil spill preparedness.
• Support incident investigations and drive lessons learned into improvements.
• Provide safety and performance reports to senior leaders and committees.
• Promote open reporting, challenging unsafe practice and shared learning.
• Build strong relationships with regulators, emergency services and port partners.

Skills

Health & Safety

Emergency Preparedness

Marine/Port Operations

Emergency Planning

Safety-critical Environment

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate or Diploma

Membership of IOSH/IFE/CMI

Tools

ISO 45001

Job description

Harwich Haven Authority is seeking a Health & Safety Manager to lead safety across our marine, operational and shore-based activities. You will coordinate emergency preparedness, incident response and risk management to ensure readiness when it matters most.

You will bring substantial health and safety and emergency planning experience in harbour/port environments, with the ability to influence peers, drive continuous improvement and communicate complex information clearly.