Health & Safety Business Partner: 23781
Working closely with the Utilities business unit to ensure that H&S best practices are fully embedded into each operational area. Encouraging others to fully own H&S and supporting them to make the right decisions by providing professional H&S advice.
This is a hybrid role and will be a mix of working from home on key projects, attending customer and contractor site meetings, working on build sites and attending meetings at Arqiva offices. The candidate must be based in the following locations as the role involves frequent interaction with our customers.
Location: East of England - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire
We offer
1. Up to £55k depending on experience
2. Car
3. 6% pension contribution
4. Private Medical
5. 25 days annual leave
6. Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
7. Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
Role Purpose:
Ensuring that H&S best practices are fully embedded into all activities at a business unit level and risk of harm is minimised.
Key Accountabilities:
8. Build and nurture effective relationships with key customers, contractors & internal stakeholders to embed within business partner function
9. Partners with function leaders (L2) to integrate safety into daily operations and foster a culture of safety ownership
10. Create and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with internal & external customers including suppliers
11. Constructively challenge ways of working and decisions to ensure H&S risks are managed or mitigated.
12. Attending site visits & customer & contractor meetings/ workshops to ensure H&S expectations are met
13. Provide specific and expert advice and support training/coaching as needed
14. Facilitates risk assessments for new products, projects and technologies
15. Lead H&S investigations as required and for high potential and injury incidents as a minimum
16. Use performance data to update business managers on ongoing performance to drive action and implement improvements
17. Lead and facilitate working groups to focus on specific H&S challenges and developing procedures and actions to drive improvement
18. Adheres to demand management process and actively prioritises work orders and communicates regularly
19. Ensure ISO45001 requirements are implemented effectively in business partner function
20. Support BIDs and mobilisation of new work or projects as required
21. Owns and leads on business key risk areas with specialism in at least one
Desired professional / academic / technical knowledge & experience:
22. Grad member IOSH or working towards
23. NEBOSH Diploma or working towards
24. Working technical knowledge of CDM, StreetWorks, Work at height, electrical and asbestos hazards and legal requirements
25. Ability to communicate effectively and clearly both written and verbally
26. Proficient in prioritising multiple tasks and assess risk Environmental awareness
27. Ability to influence and engage
Essential role delivery experience required:
28. Significant experience of working as a safety professional in the utilities, construction and telecoms industry
29. Experience of contractor & subcontractor management
Desired role delivery experience:
30. Excellent stakeholder management experience
31. Excellent communication and presentation skills
Other
32. Additional Security Clearance(s)- required
33. Driving Licence - required
Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.
Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.
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