Programme Head of Health and Safety

2 weeks ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Highways England Full time

Here at National Highways we are striving for excellence so if you’re looking for a new opportunity to be part of a high performing team please see below

As Programme Head of Health and Safety you will be key to the safe delivery of our Complex Infrastructure Programme portfolio of work through the current Road Investment Strategy (RIS 2) period (2020 to 2025) into the next RIS 3 (2025 to 2030) period.

The portfolio includes some of our landmark, nationally significant schemes to improve the strategic road network in England to benefit our local communities and road users.

**Your new role**
- The focal point for health, safety and wellbeing in the Complex Infrastructure Programme, helping delivery of landmark projects.
- Assuring our duties as a Client are being discharged, in the pre-construction and construction phases, and we keep our employees, workforce and road users safe.
- Provide advice and guidance to support project governance, management, and delivery.
- Engage design and delivery partners to identify innovative solutions to eliminate risk from the outset.
- Support and ensure that significant incident reviews take place which challenge findings and share learning with the wider supply chain.
- Support the coordination and implementation of the Major Projects Home, Safe and Well transformation strategy across the Programme.

**To be successful you will have**
- Experience of Health and Safety management within a client organisation in a construction project delivery and employer context.
- Experience of leading, managing and developing people to develop and deliver plans of work.
- Demonstrable experience of working with senior leaders to manage and improve health, safety and wellbeing performance.
- Experience of engaging stakeholders to change and improve working practices, building on lessons learned.
- NEBOSH Diploma (Level 6) or equivalent in Health and Safety.
- Professional level membership of a recognised body e.g. CMIOSH or evidence of working towards.

**A bit about us**

Safety, Engineering and Standards (SES) is an exciting place to work. SES key priorities are to support world class operational delivery and technical advice for our road network, provide support services to lead, enable and innovate in the development of the Strategic Road Network and provide expert advice on matters relating to health and safety.

If you are looking for a challenging, exhilarating and world class organisation then join one of our dedicated, professional teams leading on technical services, health and safety, sustainability and diversity agendas for National Highways.

Want to know more?

**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.


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