Navy Command

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 347575**Salary**:

- £43,080- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- C1**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Navy - Fleet Operational Standards and Training (FOST) is responsible, directly to the Fleet Commander, for providing world-class Collective Training to UK teams and units, as well as the Royal Navy’s international allies & partners.**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability
- Health and Safety**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- HMNB PortsmouthAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you an experienced Safety & Environmental Protection Manager looking to join an operationally focussed team ensuring Safety and Operational Standards across the Royal Navy fleet? Fleet Operational Standards and Training (FOST) delivers all aspects of RN Collective Training to meet RN and Joint Force Generation and Readiness requirements together with delivering impartial, independent Second Party Assurance (2PA) of Fleet Units. This role is responsible for the management of the Safety and Environment Management plan (SEMP) of the COMFOST organisation, ensuring that support is delivered efficiently to the Collective Training and Assurance Training Providers (T&APs), and that the organisation is fully aligned with the published SEMP.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The COMFOST Safety & Environmental Protection Manager will assume responsibility for the delivery of all Health, Safety and Environmental Protection (HSEP) and regulatory compliance activity within COMFOST organisation. You'll ultimately ensure that COMFOST achieves and maintains compliance with all appropriate regulatory requirements (Defence Safety Authority (DSA), JSP 815 and BRd10) by developing, implementing, and successfully delivering the processes to enable COMFOST to do so.

This is a new role, which is vital in developing fit-for-purpose process and ensuring alignment with statutory and Defence requirements, supporting COMFOST’s safety culture strategy and annual safety and environmental objectives and targets. You will need to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to ensure the most effective outcomes and efficient processes are in place.

This post reports directly to COMFOST Chief of Staff. In Navy Command, our civil servants work alongside their military colleagues in jobs that matter; jobs which often have a direct impact on the quality of the operational capabilities we deliver.

Roles can offer great job satisfaction and there are many opportunities to develop and progress both within the Department and across the wider Civil Service.

**Person specification**:
**Experience**:

- Experience within a regulatory environment or considerable experience within the field of safety management **- essential.**:

- Experience in a regulatory or safety leadership role**:

- desirable**.
- Risk Management within a Programme setting (multiple streams of effort) **-** **desirable.**:

- Project or Programme delivery experience **- desirable.**:

- Quality/Information management experience **- desirable.**

**Technical**:

- Knowledge and understanding of ISO45001: Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSMS)**:

- desirable.**:

- Knowledge and understanding of ISO14001 (2015): Environmental Management**:

- desirable.**:

- Knowledge and understanding of ISO9001**:

- desirable.**

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.As a civil servant in Navy Command, you will be part of a forward-looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects, and a job that makes a difference.

Navy Command prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Navy Command civil servants include:

- 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service - A very competitive pension scheme
- Personal & professional development
- Alternative working patterns for many roles
- Access to a confidential, professional support service
- Discount schemes
- Bicycle / season ticket loans
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Special paid leave to volunteer up