Senior Health & Safety Business Partner
Permanent
Reading/Home
Lead safety. Influence leaders. Protect people and communities.
The Senior Health & Safety Business Partner is a key leadership role within MBNL’s Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) function, reporting to the Head of Health, Safety & Environment. Leading a team of Health & Safety Business Partners, you’ll play a pivotal role in embedding MBNL’s vision of “Everyone Home Safe and Well Every Day” across a complex, multi-stakeholder organisation.
Acting as a trusted advisor and change agent, you’ll combine operational insight with strategic oversight and performance intelligence to proactively identify, manage, and reduce health, safety, and environmental risks across MBNL’s activities.
As MBNL continues to evolve as an Infrastructure Manager, strong safety leadership is essential. This role ensures health and safety is not confined to HSE, but fully embedded across the business, understood at the frontline and governed at an enterprise level.
Through clear direction and insight, you’ll help protect people, communities, and assets, while enabling safe delivery at scale and pace. This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of two days per week in our Central Reading office.
Responsibilities of the Senior Health & Safety Business Partner:
You’ll lead health and safety business partnering across MBNL, ensuring consistent, high-quality advice and meaningful risk reduction.
Key responsibilities include:
* Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Health & Safety Business Partners
* Embedding MBNL’s business partnering model and driving accountability for safety
* Partnering with senior leaders to influence behaviours, capability, and risk ownership
* Providing enterprise-wide insight into safety risks, trends, and control effectiveness
* Owning and maintaining MBNL’s fatal and significant risk register
* Ensuring assurance activity is risk-based and drives measurable improvement
* Overseeing governance forums, working groups, and performance reporting
* Maintaining ISO 45001 compliance and continuously improving HSE standards and processes
* Leading Health & Safety partnering for Estates & Asset Management
* Championing external best practice and translating it into practical improvements
The successful Senior Health & Safety Business Partner will have:
You’re a credible and influential safety leader, comfortable operating at senior level and building strong relationships across a joint venture environment. You bring a balance of strategic thinking and operational pragmatism, along with a passion for developing others.
You’ll have:
* A relevant health & safety qualification (e.g. NEBOSH Diploma)
* Experience leading and developing teams
* A proven ability to influence in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
* Strong coaching and relationship-building skills
* Working towards, or holding, professional membership (e.g. IOSH)
* Experience maintaining ISO 45001 accreditation
* A background in construction, infrastructure, or asset-based environments
* Internal auditor training would be a great bonus