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Compliance Lead Scotland

Job Req ID:  46690
Posting Date:  6 May 2025
Function:  Engineering
Unit:  Networks
Location: 

Alexander Bain House, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive with Great Benefits

Why this job matters

Why this job matters 
The key purpose of the compliance lead is to manage/carry out activities relating to a number of key field engineering accountabilities within the Network Services Field Engineering team. The role holder will support a number of geographical patches to deliver Health & Safety priorities, including the delivery of safety checks/sign off for engineers. They will also be required to support the delivery of legal compliance/audit activities, ensuring that their given geographical area successfully achieves the standards required for multiple ISO accreditations. The role will be directly accountable for environmental/waste targets in their area, ensuring the completion of site waste activity and periodic environmental site checks.

 

This role location is BT Glasgow's office and will involve travel across the Scotland region. A business needs vehicle will be provided

What you’ll be doing

The compliance lead role has a number of different responsibilities covering a set geography (either a region, or part of a region).

Health & Safety regional lead:

  • Responsible for carrying out and renewing specialist safety (AMS) checks for the regional engineering teams
  • Responsible for completion of corrective actions raised via H&S site auditing in-region.
  • Involvement & support with: 
  • Lost Time Incidents (LTIs), near miss/hazard reports including corrective actions, recommendations/best practice sharing.
  • Reporting at a regional level on H&S – Updates/briefings/incidents/regional statistics

ISO Accreditation/Audit support

  • Responsible for the support of site audits relating to ISO 14001/27001/45001 accreditations – including site visits/joint meets & audit preparation.
  • Co-ordination of DL resource and/or third party contractors in preparation for site auditing based on local requirements.
  • Supporting resolution of remedial/corrective works as a result of audit activity.

Site Environment lead/Environmental advisor:

  • Accountable for the completion of all Tier 1/2/3 site environmental checks in-region – through either direct delivery or arranging onsite activity.
  • Completion of all relevant Networks corrective action identified during SEL checks
  • Submission of relevant work orders for cross-LOB corrective actions.

Facilities & building fabric SPOC:

  • Escalation & internal ownership of facilities issues via BT Property/CBRE
  • Collation of patch-specific building fabric & site related safety/environmental issues, tracking of progress, and owning to resolution.

Waste Management:

  • Accountable for regional delivery of all required waste management activities
  • Regional reporting on waste management progress & compliance
  • Best practice/CI approach to delivery of waste management in a challenging operational environment.
  • Engineering Operational Support:
  • Providing analysis/reporting and action plans at a regional/patch level when required for program specific delivery plans. i.e. recovery plans for workstream delivery.
  • Support the regional engineering team with day to day operational requirements; i.e. Tester/Asset management, ad-hoc safety requirements, joint site visits.

Skills Required for the Role

Solution Focused: 

  • Self-driven to achieve positive outcomes in all activities relating to the role. 

Communication: 

  • Ability to develop insight and reporting which is concise and supports regional engineering activity & outcomes. 

Collaboration: 

  • Ability to work closely & collaboratively with both the regional engineering team, and indirectly across our planning/scheduling/performance teams, among others.

Stakeholder management: 

  • Ability to influence decision making, prioritisation and process improvements across multiple teams & departments.

Leadership & Engagement: 

  • Creating inspiring communications to engage colleagues & team members.
  • Supporting an inclusive environment where everybody can have their say, speak out, and learn/grow together as a team.

Experience Required for the Role

  • Experience of working or managing in an engineering environment.
  • A good working knowledge of Health, Safety, and environmental controls in an engineering environment
  • Technical skills held include Excel, PowerPoint, data interpretation & visualisation, metric & process knowledge, problem solving ability
  • Analytical & Reporting Skills – the role will involve presenting at a regional/patch level, requiring basic analytic/presentation skills.

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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