Safety Validation Manager

TransPennine Express; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A rail transport company in Manchester is seeking a Safety Validation Manager to oversee safety validation actions for Change Management projects. The ideal candidate will have experience in a high-risk industry and excellent communication skills. This role involves planning site visits and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Benefits include competitive salary, personal development plans, and free rail travel for employees and dependents.

Benefits

Excellent career prospects

Free rail travel for dependents

Generous leave entitlement

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Scheme with employer contributions

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a railway environment is desirable.
• Knowledge of health and safety management principles.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Verify safety validation actions for Change Management projects.
• Plan site visits to assure risk controls are implemented.
• Assist in post-implementation reviews and safety meetings.

Skills

Experience in high-risk industry

Understanding of hazard and risk evaluation

Excellent written and verbal communication

Time management and organizational skills

Attention to detail

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent

Job description

Safety Validation Manager – Bridgewater House

We're TransPennine Express and we're going places. Whether that's helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We're looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.

An opportunity has arisen to join our safety team as a Safety Validation Manager. The key responsibility within this demanding role, which reports to the Head of Safety & Security, is ensuring that change is managed into the business safely by supporting project managers through the safety validation process, ensuring safety risk have been identified, controlled and evidenced. With a focus on safety assurance and ensuring actions are verified, you will have a good eye for detail and the ability to communicate at all levels, this role is likely to involve travelling across the network to visit locations where changes are being introduced. It will also involve working across all departmental functions within TransPennine Express on a broad range of Safety Validation projects.

The role will be responsible for:

• The verification of safety validation actions relating to Change Management projects across the business, ensuring actions are being completed timely and can be evidenced accordingly.
• The planning of site visits to locations where changes are being implemented to gain assurance that risk controls are being actioned and embedded at the appropriate time.
• Assisting with the planning and execution of Post Implementation Review sessions with Lead Managers following the introduction of a change to assess the effectiveness of the risk controls and documenting the overall success of the change.
• Assisting with the planning and preparation of periodic Safety Validation meetings where progress on companywide projects will be discussed and tracked.
• Assisting in the company wide promotion of the Safety Validation process to ensure consistent application.
• Further developing Key Performance Indicators for Safety Validation and assurance activities to report into the appropriate Level 1 / 2 meetings.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate the following:

• Previous experience of working in a railway environment or similar high‑risk industry is desirable.
• An understanding of hazard, risk, and evaluation and assessment processes.
• Qualified or working towards the completion of the NEBOSH general certificate in occupational safety and health or equivalent.
• A general knowledge of the Plan, Do, Check, Act approach to Health & Safety Management.
• You will possess excellent written and verbal communications skills with strong time management and organisational skills and have an excellent eye for detail.

Working within a dedicated safety team in a business and industry that is experiencing a high level of change, the SVM has a pivotal role in ensuring TPE's safety performance continues to deliver excellence and provides a safe workplace for colleagues and travel experience for our customers.

If that sounds like the right fit for you, then we'd love to hear from you. Please click apply and complete an application form. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

What we offer

• Excellent career prospects.
• A personal development plan.
• Structured training and development.
• Competitive salary paid on 4‑weekly basis.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependents.
• Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 year's service.
• Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on‑hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home.
• Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions.
• Family‑friendly maternity and paternity benefits.
• Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Terms and conditions apply.

Goings places has never felt better!

At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard.

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