Health, Safety

A vacancy has arisen for a Health, Safety and Compliance Officer within the Estates Department for a non for profit business based in Birmingham.
Paying an attractive salary of £33,000 + benefits you'll be working for the Head of Estates, you will be responsible for ensuring a safe estate, helping to comply with both legislation and the companies policies.
You will be responsible for implementing and contributing to the continuous improvement of the health, safety and environmental management system (SEMS) in line with the companies standards, assuring it is applied effectively throughout the Region.
Responsibilities of the Estates compliance include:

- Responsible for ensuring that the systems and procedures are in place and are being followed in order to achieve and demonstrate compliance with statutory and mandatory Health, Safety and Environmental Protection requirements within the Region, principally,but not exclusively, in respect of the provision of a safe and compliant estate.
- Responsible for providing professional health and safety and environmental advice in order to drive a positive safety culture within the Region.
- Responsible for the planning and delivery of statutory and mandatory inspections and tests (SMIT), and the works arising from them, on the VE within the Region.
- Responsible for ensuring health, safety and environmental risks are identified, assessed and effectively managed within the Region. This responsibility includes conducting health, safety and environmental audits of conducted business in accordance withthe audit programme.
- Responsible for the Health Safety and Environmental Protection Committee, to provide assurance to the Management Board that HS&EP responsibilities are being met. This includes holding quarterly meetings to review the following Safe Places, Safe Processes,Safe People across the Estate.

Tasks and Duties of the Estates compliance include:

- In accordance with the CRFCA Audit Programme, plan, programme and deliver health, safety and environmental assurance audits within the Region and ensure that action plans are established and implemented to address any issues identified.
- Ensure that rigorous risk assessment and incident management systems for the VE are in place, effective and being complied with across Region.
- Synchronise SMIT visits between contractors and customers (units) to the required frequency, ensuring that any reasons for missed appointments are logged and that inspection is re-arranged in a timely manner in order to ensure site compliance.
- Maintain comprehensive records of agreed Statutory and Mandatory Certificates, ensuring distribution to the units to which they apply.

Implementation:

- Ensure that agreed inspections and tests are carried out within the schedule set down in the service specification, and that certification is received prior to payment being made.
- Ensure that, where required, fault reports are raised, remediation costs are obtained and works orders are issued for agreed statutory and mandatory remedial works.
- Ensure that the health, safety or environmental implications of any identified non-compliances are communicated to the relevant estate users in a timely manner so that they may implement suitable risk mitigation measures.
- Ensure that invoices for SMIT and works arising from them, are processed in a timely and accurate manner.
- In conjunction with the Estates Team Building Surveyors review and approve Contractor Risk Assessments and Method Statements, monitoring the implementation of said Method Statements and of any specified risk mitigation measures.
- Administer, monitor and report the performance of statutory and mandatory inspection and testing contracts/contractors, whilst maintaining their currency with emerging requirements.
- Maintain key compliance documents in support of Heads of Establishment.
- Technical skills and qualifications
- NEBOSH Certificate, NCRQ Certificate or equivalent qualification (Level 3 - Regulated Qualifications Framework for England and Northern Ireland; Level 3 - Credit and Qualifications Framework for Wales; and Level 6 - Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework).

**Experience**:

- Experience of developing and implementing health & safety management systems in the hard facilities management sector.
- Experience in health & safety and environmental risk management, including a sound understanding of relevant legislation and compliance auditing.
- Experience of key stakeholder management, with strong consultation, influencing and negotiation skills, and the ability to build trust and forge strong working relationships between multiple stakeholders, from multiple organisations.
- IT literate using MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and able to use remote conferencing facilities such as MS Teams and Skype confidently.

Paying an attractive salary of £33,000 + company car benefits include annual leave, excluding public holidays, is 25 days per annum rising to 30 days after 5 years' service.