Health and Safety Manager

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About the job. 

National Highways has 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 . 

As a Health and Safety Manager, in delivery you will be based in the North west 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 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. You 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. You will be based at the , within the Northwest region. However, as part of your role you will be required to drive, and you will need to have a no more than 3 points on your driving licence to be considered for this position and during employment. 

  • 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. To support colleagues to enable 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. To review pre-construction and construction phases of project delivery. 
  • Be involved in, support on and when appropriate, 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, . (NEBOSH Certificate will also be considered with the view of obtaining. 
  • 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.

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    Location:
    Manchester
    Job Type:
    FullTime

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