Health & Safety Business Partner

Health & Safety Business Partner

Reading – Hybrid-working

Contract/Permanent

MBNL are on a transformation journey of defining and enhancing the capabilities needed to manage the assets as infrastructure manager.

In MBNL, we care deeply about improving safety for our people, those who access, build and maintain our Infrastructure and those communities our infrastructure is located within. We are passionate about achieving our vision of ‘Everyone Home Safe and Well Every Day’

Context:

The Health & Safety Business Partner is a senior role within the HSE Team and reports directly to the Head of Health, Safety and Environment.

This role is vital in helping make a step change in our approach to Safety and Performance for our business activities. Partnering with the Leadership and Operational teams, you will take a proactive and coaching approach to inspire our people in its delivery of compliance and improvement. This role will be required to embed a culture of performance, build capability to lead and manage Health and Safety effectively.

What you will do:

• Partner with your designated Leadership and Operational teams to ensure compliance with the Safety, Health and Environmental Management Standards and Health & Safety Vision
• Work with the leadership teams to develop, implement and embed a functional Health and Safety Plan to deliver the overall Health & Safety Vision.
• Influence, coach and mentor Leadership and Operational teams to develop working knowledge and application of Health & Safety management requirements to drive positive safety behaviours and improve safety culture and performance across our business
• Take ownership for providing relevant management information and trend analysis of Health, Safety and Environmental performance data to convey to Leadership and Operational teams
• Develop new Standards, processes and supporting guidance and documentation as part of a cultural maturity shift.
• Identify capability and process gaps within leadership and operational teams, ensure development objectives are set and achieved to enable delivery of current and future work.
• Provide advisory support to the function on site /point issues
• Ongoing management of Outsourced H&S service
• Develop supplier assurance and accreditation policies, standards & processes.

What we are looking for:

• Relevant health and safety qualification / training e.g. NEBOSH
• Good understanding of site health & safety risks, their management controls and legal standards
• Strong ability to communicate and act professionally
• Proven record of bringing best practice into an organisation and using this to drive improvements
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver to time, quality and cost
• Working within an organisation maintaining ISO 45001 certification experience
• Experience in Client-side Construction/or working within an asset infrastructure business.

Nice to have:

• Internal Auditor training
• An understanding of the wider role of MBNL and an appreciation of how teams interact

MBNL – building strength through inclusion.

At MBNL we embrace equality, diversity, and inclusion. People are at the heart of everything we do and collectively we strive to create an environment where everyone can flourish. By fostering an inclusive environment, we are championing each other’s uniqueness. Inclusion & Diversity within MBNL will unlock innovation and continue to evolve how we work, to help us deliver world class infrastructure for our Shareholders and their customers.

We will work creatively to offer flexible working arrangements, (like non-standard hours, part-time, remote working). We want to support you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

MBNL are proud recipients of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, and Disability Confident accredited.