Job Description
Are you an experienced Health and Safety professional with a strong background in infrastructure projects looking to lead safety strategies from design through to decommissioning?
Your Role
The Health and Safety Manager (Projects) is responsible for ensuring safety risk mitigation in infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle, from planning to decommissioning. The role involves advising on and implementing safe systems of work, leading safety audits, ensuring compliance with legislation, and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The manager will also ensure that all safety measures are in place before projects transition to operational stages, working closely with project teams, contractors, and senior management to maintain a strong safety culture.
Who are we?
The Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) team within Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is responsible for ensuring the organization's compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards across all operations and projects. The team, which includes roles such as HSE Managers, Officers, and Coordinators, works to develop and implement safety policies, conduct audits, and manage risk assessments. The HSE team reports to senior leadership, through the Chief Networking Officer, ensuring that safety and environmental considerations are integrated into TfGM's strategic planning and daily operations.
What you’ll bring
The ideal candidate must have significant management experience in health and safety within a project environment, particularly in infrastructure projects. You should have a proven ability to influence and persuade staff at all levels to prioritise safety and maintain a positive safety culture. Strong communication skills are essential, along with experience delivering safety presentations and training. You should also have a track record of successfully commissioning operational facilities, solid IT skills, and the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines. Experience with capital and revenue transport infrastructure projects is desirable.
What we can offer you
This is a fixed term role of between 9 - 12 months and offers a salary of between £56,361 - £63,438 per annum depending on experience.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
- Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
- Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
- Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role. All appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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