Health & Safety Business Partner

Job Description

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.

Location East of England - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire

We offer

• Upto £65k depending on experience
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• 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
• 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

• Build and nurture effective relationships with key customers, contractors & internal stakeholders to embed within business partner function
• Partners with function leaders (L2) to integrate safety into daily operations and foster a culture of safety ownership
• Create and maintain collaborative and effective relationships with internal & external customers including suppliers
• Constructively challenge ways of working and decisions to ensure H&S risks are managed or mitigated.
• Attending site visits & customer & contractor meetings/ workshops to ensure H&S expectations are met
• Provide specific and expert advice and support training/coaching as needed
• Facilitates risk assessments for new products, projects and technologies
• Lead H&S investigations as required and for high potential and injury incidents as a minimum
• Use performance data to update business managers on ongoing performance to drive action and implement improvements
• Lead and facilitate working groups to focus on specific H&S challenges and developing procedures and actions to drive improvement
• Adheres to demand management process and actively prioritises work orders and communicates regularly
• Ensure ISO45001 requirements are implemented effectively in business partner function
• Support BIDs and mobilisation of new work or projects as required
• Owns and leads on all 8 key risk areas (with specialism in at least 2)
  
  

Desired Professional / Academic / Technical Knowledge & Experience

• Grad member IOSH or working towards
• NEBOSH Dipolma or working towards
• Working technical knowledge of CDM, Streetworks, Work at height, electrical and asbestos hazards and legal requirements
• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly both written and verbally
• Proficient in prioritising multiple tasks and assess risk Environmental awareness
• Ability to influence and engage
  
  

Essential Role Delivery Experience Required

• Significant experience of working as a safety professional in the utilities, construction and telecoms industry
• Experience of contractor & subcontractor management
  
  

Desired Role Delivery Experience

• Excellent stakeholder management experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
  
  

Other

• Additional Security Clearance(s)- required
• 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. 

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work. 

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!  

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