HSE and Assurance Manager
1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom
Why this job matters
The HSE and Assurance 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.
Important Information!
- Full UK Drivers Licence needed
- Business Needs Vehicle provided
- Field based role/ frequent national travel required/ occasional international travel
- Must be able to interview in person in London or Birmingham BT office
What you’ll be doing
- Manages teams in the implementation of the global HSE policies, its mission and vision set, aligning with the wider global strategy.
- 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.
- Manages assigned initiatives contributing to the implementation a HSE continuous improvement plan and operational compliance programme.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Coordinates the necessary relationships with third parties, including enforcement agencies and audit bodies, clients and customers to reduce risk and continually improve the Group’s HSE reputation.
- 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.
- Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in HSE.
- Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
- Conduct impartial Multi ISO Audits and produce reports including findings and consulted corrective actions
- Implements ways to improve working processes within HSE.
Skills & Experience Required
- GradIOSH or equivalent– minimum (H&S)
- AIEMA or equivalent – minimum (Enviro)
- Change agent
- Solution-focused achiever
- Coaching skills
- Presentations skills
- Story telling with data
Benefits
- On target 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
- Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
- 2 weeks carer’s leave
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
About us
BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.
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.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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