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Job Description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Health and Safety Manager to join our team in Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES). National Highways is committed to ensuring that everyone who works on our road network and across our organisation, gets Home Safe and Well.

As a Health and Safety Manager in the delivery function, you will be based in the Yorkshire North East region but join a national health safety and wellbeing team. You will support a diverse organisation, covering a range of health safety and wellbeing topics across our colleagues and supply chain, from offices, traffic management and on-road colleagues, as the client organisation on large complex infrastructure projects and everything in between. You will also support our assurance programmes and support National Highways with our ambition of continual improvement. This is an excellent opportunity to join a passionate and dynamic team to support our Home Safe and Well ambition.

You will provide expert advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders, adding value through positive intervention, influencing decision making and encouraging innovation and will influence behaviours and support our ongoing cultural change programme; 'Be the Change'.

As a team we work flexibility and are supported by National Highways Hybrid Working Policies. Please note you will be based at the nearest office location, within the Yorkshire North East region.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a no more than 3 points on your licence to be considered for this position and during employment.

• Support with the implementation of our health and safety strategy (Home Safe and Well) and our ambition for continual improvement.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and support on a range of health safety and wellbeing topics to a diverse range of colleagues. To support colleagues to enable our supply chain on the delivery of complex infrastructure projects.
• Engage with and support our supply chain partners, ensuring National Highways discharges our duties and responsibilities as a client organisation.
• Undertake health and safety assurance activities, including assurance and auditing programmes. To review pre-construction and construction phases of project delivery.
• Be involved in, support on and when appropriate, lead on incident and near-miss investigations to ensure embedded and sustained organisational and industry wide learning.

About you.

• NEBOSH Diploma in Health and Safety (or equivalent) and membership of a recognised engineering or safety professional body, e.g.CMIOSH.
• Applied experience of health and safety management in employer organisations.
• Applied experience of delivery of client responsibilities in construction projects.
• Ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately.
• Experience of undertaking and reporting on audit and assurance activities.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) focuses on supporting outstanding operational delivery and providing expert technical advice for our road network. We also deliver essential services that lead, enable, and drive innovation in the development of the Strategic Road Network, while offering expert guidance on health and safety matters.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

About Us

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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