Why this job matters

The Health, Safety & Environment Manager manages teams in technical, strategic, and administrative activities of the HSE function, ensuring regulatory HSE compliance, development of HSE systems, processes and programmes, enabling operational excellence and safeguarding employees and communities.

This role is field based and requires you are commutable to any of the following offices: Bristol, Birmingham, London, Manchester

1. Manages teams in the implementation of the global HSE policies, its mission and vision set, aligning with the wider global strategy.
2. Manages teams in maintaining and implementing local operating procedures that meet the requirements of both the Group’s HSE Integrated Management System and local laws.
3. Manages assigned initiatives contributing to the implementation a HSE continuous improvement plan and operational compliance programme.
4. Manages teams in fulfilling the HSE function’s reporting capabilities leading the development of management information reports for the global Risk, Business Assurance and Compliance management team expectations.
5. Manages teams and activities that ensure Group stakeholders adhere to robust processes that exceed the minimum legal HSE compliance requirements within the operating countries it is present in and establishes and embeds a HSE assurance programme to monitor legal compliance.
6. Facilitates working partnerships and peer to peer relationships both within the function and across operations and wider stakeholders, to facilitate the achievement of objectives whilst promoting the best working practice and consistently high standards of HSE.
7. Coordinates the necessary relationships with third parties, including Health, safety and Environmental: regulators, enforcement agencies and audit bodies, clients and customers to reduce risk and continually improve the Group’s HSE reputation.
8. Coordinates activities that ensure all Group and Group supplier locations are risk profiled and that the risk profiling drives the HSE compliance monitoring and assurance programme. 
9. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in HSE.
10. Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
11. Conduct impartial Multi ISO Audits and produce reports including findings and consulted corrective actions
12. Implements ways to improve working processes within HSE.

What you’ll be doing

• Health, Safety and Environment Management
• Behavioural Safety Management
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Strategy
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Risk Management
• Quality Management
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Incident Management
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)  Management Systems
• Strategic Planning
• Communication Management
• Corporate Governance
• Policy Management
• Data Analysis
• Audit / Assurance activity 
   

Skills and Competency Required for the Job

• Change agent
• Solution-focused achiever
• Coaching skills
• Presentations skills
• Story telling with data
• GradIOSH – minimum or working toward  (H&S) 
• AIEMA – Minimum (Enviro) or working toward  
• Nebosh Diploma (Desired)
   

Benefits

At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.

• Competitive salary
• Business needs car (specific to this role)
• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
• Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. 

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.  

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

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