Operations Capability, Safety and Risk Manager

Your New role

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Operations Capability, Safety & Risk Manager to join our team. Within this role you will be leading and managing the team and delivering the service requirement and promoting continuous improvement. You willalso be responsible for maintaining risk management arrangements for the directorate and owning the observation and assessment procedures.

What you’ll be leading on
- Own the Operational Capability Observation Process, supporting operational management and leadership to ensure that they discharge their duty under Sec 2.2c of the HSWA 1974.
- Manage the Operational Capability Assessment Team, ensuring that assessment targets are clearly defined, and objectives agreed
- Challenge non-compliance with processes, and where necessary escalate to appropriate levels within Regional Management Teams or Senior Leadership Teams.
- Responsible for managing risk assessment processes for safety critical roles (as defined by Operations Directorate) e.g. Traffic Officers, Highways Inspectors, Structures Inspectors etc
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to improve existing control measures or identify and implement new control measures, ensuring a culture of continuous improvement and proactive safety. Contribute to the development and review of the corporate HSWMS andHealth & Safety systems and processes.
- Provide technical support to serious incident investigations, using Investigation methods to ensure lessons are learned and communicated to the wider directorate (where appropriate).

To be Successful
- Hold or be willing to work towards a Health & Safety qualification equivalent to level 3 NEBOSH certificate as a minimum
- Skilled in Incident Investigation
- Experience of leading projects or working groups to clarify understanding and identify and deliver best solutions
- Able to undertake assessment verification to validate, and quality assure assessment decisions.
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments in a high
- risk environment, identifying reasonably practicable control measures and influencing leaders to implement controls
- Excellent knowledge of Corporate HSWMS and Incident Reporting Systems

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

**About 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 dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

- 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 blended working between base location/home
- 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 plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

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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