Health & Safety Manager

The Methodist Church in Britain; Bulwell; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Harwich Haven Authority is seeking a Manager to lead safety, emergency preparedness and incident response across its marine, operational and shore-based activities. The role focuses on inspections, audits, emergency plan development and multi-agency exercises, with investigations into incidents including oil spill readiness.

Requirements include NEBOSH cert or diploma and IOSH/IFe/CMI membership, plus substantial experience in safety-critical environments and ISO 45001 knowledge.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health and safety, emergency planning or safety-critical environments.
• Experience within harbour/port operations or high-risk industries preferred.
• Ability to develop, exercise and improve contingency plans and responses.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety management across marine, operational and shore-based activities.
• Plan and deliver inspections, audits, risk assessments and safe systems of work.
• Direct emergency plans, procedures and multi-agency response arrangements.
• Design desktop exercises and multi-agency drills; support incident investigations.
• Provide safety and performance reports to senior leaders and committees.

Skills

Emergency planning knowledge

Incident management

Analytical reporting

Communication and influencing

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate or Diploma

IOSH/IFE/CMI membership or equivalent

Job description

Harwich Haven Authority is recruiting a manager to lead safety, emergency preparedness and incident response across the Haven's marine, operational and shore-based activities. The core of the work is running inspections and audits, planning emergency plans and multi-agency exercises, and leading incident investigations, including marine pollution and oil spill preparedness. It reports to senior leaders and committees, working in a port setting alongside regulators and emergency services. Significant experience in safety-critical or emergency planning work is required, along with a recognised safety qualification.

What the job involves

• Improving safety management across marine, engineering, operational and shore-based activities
• Delivering inspections and audits, and supporting risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Leading emergency plans, procedures, communications and response arrangements
• Planning desktop exercises, operational drills and multi-agency exercises
• Coordinating marine pollution and oil spill preparedness
• Supporting incident investigations and turning lessons into improvements
• Providing safety and performance reports to senior leaders and committees
• Promoting open reporting, constructive challenge and shared learning
• Building strong relationships with colleagues, regulators, emergency services and port partners

What’s required

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General Certificate, Diploma or equivalent safety qualification
• Membership of IOSH, IFE, CMI or another relevant professional body

Experience

• Significant experience in health and safety, emergency preparedness, marine or port operations, emergency planning or another safety-critical environment
• Experience within a harbour authority, port, terminal, shipping company, emergency service or other high-risk industry
• Developing, maintaining and exercising contingency or emergency plans
• Experience of ISO 45001

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of emergency planning, incident management and multi-agency response
• Sound technical judgement, with confidence to influence and challenge unsafe practice
• Excellent communication, influencing, analytical and organisational skills
• Managing competing priorities, taking ownership and working collaboratively across teams
• Preparing reports, technical notes, briefings and performance information with confidence

Nice to have

• Emergency planning or resilience qualification
• Marine qualification or significant maritime operational experience
• Strong understanding of operational risk in a port, marine or similar safety-critical environment
• Understanding of the UK Ports & Marine Facilities Safety Code, HSE requirements, the Civil Contingencies Act and marine pollution response arrangements
• Experience of incident command, oil spill response, incident investigation or working with regulators and emergency responders

What’s offered

• Generous pension
• Wellbeing support
• Learning and development opportunities