Framework Health, Safety & Environment Manager - Severn Trent

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The Job

Role Overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Framework Health, Safety & Environment Manager to join the team. As Framework Health, Safety & Environment Manager, you will be a member of the senior leadership team and will lead on all health, safety, and environmental aspects.

You will have overall accountability for developing and executing the HS&E strategy and systems across the Framework to ensure that the delivery of our operations meets exemplary safety, health, and environmental standards.

The Framework Health, Safety & Environment Manager is a critical role in driving improvement and consistency in performance, ensuring compliance with management systems, and driving continual improvement initiatives.

You will sit as part of our wider Health, Safety & Environment team, reporting to the Regional Health, Safety & Environment Manager and will have opportunity to influence the overall Health, Safety & Environment strategy for our Environment business and the wider group.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster and support an inclusive, open, transparent, and collaborative environment to develop our HS&E culture, maturity, and behaviours to deliver HS&E excellence.
• Lead, manage and assure our HS&E strategy to drive continual improvement addressing short-, medium-, and long-term strategic growth and learning. This will be achieved through collaboration with others in the leadership team and other key stakeholders.
• Proactively drive and promote our behavioural programme; ’Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behaviours’, through site visits and strategic planning meetings.
• Lead, manage and assure our HS&E management system, taking account of client requirements. This will include designing policies that align with our overall strategy and driving efficiency through our processes and standards.
• Engage and influence internal and external key stakeholders, including client, supply chain partners, regulatory authorities, industry bodies, and colleagues, through the plan, prepare and delivery of project lifecycle.
• Lead, manage and develop our HS&E function, inspiring and nurturing growth, learning, and support as individuals while at the same time fostering continual learning and improvement of business operations to provide excellent customer service.
• Own, develop, implement, and report on HS&E strategy and operational performance KPIs using internal and external metrics. Delivers strategic review on performance and drives strategic direction.
• Deliver continual improvement of practice to unlock gains in HS&E performance and mitigate risk that could occur through HS&E-related issues.
• Leads and delivers the HS&E strategy and initiatives in the framework in line with business needs.
• Assures our framework HS&E management system, taking account of client requirements. Leads Management Review at the framework level in Environment.
• Develop and report on framework HS&E strategy and operational metrics.
• Develop and present HS&E training to the HS&E and operational teams.
• Develops personal development reviews and personal development plans for all those in their line.
  

Competency Requirements

Experience and Qualifications:

• Aware of individual Health and Safety responsibilities and adheres to company health and safety policy and procedures.
• Able to demonstrate alignment and work in line with our clients values - Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.
• A responsible leader with an open, strategic, and analytic mind, who is committed to productivity, compliance, and continual improvement.
• Able to evidence a well-structured, systematic approach to identify and analyse problems, understand risks, and implement appropriate solutions.
• Ideally experienced in leading a similar sized HS&E function in either infrastructure, water, or similar regulated markets.
• Proven in developing and delivering a successful HS&E strategy autonomously based on your experience and technical knowledge of HS&E management, systems, risks, and legal frameworks.
• Experienced in leading and coaching a team to achieve high-performance outcomes.
• Experienced in producing and delivering learning and development programmes.
• Experienced in delivering HS&E performance in project lifecycle environment.
• Knowledge of data analytics and reporting systems.
• Proven at delivering results and meeting HS&E, financial and operational KPIs.
• Fully conversant with the Microsoft suite of packages
  

Essential

Technical/Professional Expertise and Qualifications:

• Relevant HS&E experience in a similar industry operating at a senior level.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent in OHS.
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel across projects / contracts in region.
  

Desirable

• Member of IOSH or IIRSM (TechIOSH as a minimum).
• CMIOSH or Working towards.
  

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Childcare vouchers
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it.