Health & Safety Manager

National Highways; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Health and Safety Manager to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will provide expert guidance on health and safety matters, supporting a diverse organization involved in complex infrastructure projects. Your responsibilities will include implementing safety strategies, engaging with supply chain partners, and leading incident investigations. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact on workplace safety and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. If you are committed to ensuring the well-being of colleagues and have a strong background in health and safety management, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent in Health and Safety is essential.
• Experience in health and safety management in construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Implement health and safety strategy and support continual improvement.
• Provide expert advice on health safety and wellbeing topics.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Incident Investigation

Audit and Assurance Activities

Stakeholder Engagement

Complex Information Analysis

Education

NEBOSH Diploma in Health and Safety

Membership of a Recognised Professional Body (e.g., CMIOSH)

Job description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Health and Safety Manager to join our team in Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES). National Highways is committed to ensuring that everyone who works on our road network and across our organisation, gets Home Safe and Well.

As a Health and Safety Manager in the delivery function, you will be based in the Midlands (West and East Midlands) but join a national health safety and wellbeing team. You will support a diverse organisation, covering a range of health safety and wellbeing topics across our colleagues and supply chain, from offices, traffic management and on-road colleagues, as the client organisation on large complex infrastructure projects and everything in between. You will also support our assurance programmes and support National Highways with our ambition of continual improvement. This is an excellent opportunity to join a passionate and dynamic team to support our Home Safe and Well ambition.

You will provide expert advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders, adding value through positive intervention, influencing decision making and encouraging innovation and will influence behaviours and support our ongoing cultural change programme; 'Be the Change'.

As a team we work flexibly and are supported by National Highways Hybrid Working Policies. Please note you will be based at the nearest office location, within the South West region.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a no more than 3 points on your licence to be considered for this position and during employment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support with the implementation of our health and safety strategy (Home Safe and Well) and our ambition for continual improvement.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and support on a range of health safety and wellbeing topics to a diverse range of colleagues, enabling our supply chain on the delivery of complex infrastructure projects.
• Engage with and support our supply chain partners, ensuring National Highways discharges our duties and responsibilities as a client organisation.
• Undertake health and safety assurance activities, including assurance and auditing programmes. Review pre-construction and construction phases of project delivery.
• Support and lead on incident and near-miss investigations to ensure embedded and sustained organisational and industry-wide learning.

About you.

• NEBOSH Diploma in Health and Safety (or equivalent) and membership of a recognised engineering or safety professional body, e.g., CMIOSH.
• Applied experience of health and safety management in employer organisations.
• Applied experience of delivery of client responsibilities in construction projects.
• Ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately.
• Experience of undertaking and reporting on audit and assurance activities.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) focuses on supporting outstanding operational delivery and providing expert technical advice for our road network. We also deliver essential services that lead, enable, and drive innovation in the development of the Strategic Road Network, while offering expert guidance on health and safety matters.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.