Are you a Senior Health & Safety Leader with H&S Strategy Development & Implementation experience and want to be responsible for HSS Strategy across the entire High Speed Two Programme & be responsible for shaping & embedding new Health and safety industry standards?

Open to Qualified Health & Safety leaders from complex industry background such as – Rail, Civil, Power, Nuclear, utilities, Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Aviation etc

Senior HSS Strategy Manager is required to work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two Ltd) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK. The role is responsible for Health & Safety Strategy development and implementation across the entire programme – 4 Civil Contracts, 4 Station Contracts, 12 Rail Systems Contracts, Corporate & indeed Operations & maintenance.  The role reports to the Head of HSS Policy.

This role is responsible for the development of the HS2 Health and Safety Strategy and supporting Operational Plans and the Safe at Heart Culture and Engagement programme. The role will manage a team who develop and provide the operational oversight associated with the development and implementation of the HS2 Health and Safety Strategy across HS2 Ltd and Delivery areas.

High Speed Two HSS Strategy is developed and implemented in a 3-year cycles, currently there are 7 Focus areas for instance 2 being - Workforce Site & Occupational H&S and Health & Safety by Design – and beneath the focus areas are 21 commitments such as for Health & Safety Design, “we will design assets to improve health & safety buildability and future operations and maintenance”.  Each focus area is championed & led by a member of the Senior Leadership Team, which, need to be owned, adopted by HS2 and then alongside considerable communication & engagement adopted by the Supply Chain (Main Contractors, Designs, Subcontractors & Manufacturers).  The Strategy manager will work closely with the Senior HSS Culture Manager, which reports to the role – and ensuring the “We Matter” safety Ethos is implemented throughout the organisation and its organisational culture.

The role has considerable challenges not least the Health & Safety Strategy and commitments are not written into the HS2 Construction contracts therefore the adoption and engagement programme is a key element to the role.  Alongside efforts to enshrine some of the Health & safety commitments as industry wide standards so that adoption will become mandatory.  Thus, the role can make real change for the better of the whole infrastructure, rail & construction industry.

Working Situation – Hybrid

The office location is Birmingham or London they operate a flexible hybrid working model with plans to be working 2 days a week from the office.  Overall, this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based front the office more you can.

Salary  

Birmingham                   £80 – 85,859 + Pen (6:12) + health + 25 days 

London                         £90 – 94,560 Pen (6:12) + health + 25 days  (potentially to £99,000)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Development of HS2 Strategy and Operational Plans to deliver Health and Safety, providing a clear operational approach for the organisation and supply chain.
• Responsible for challenging the status quo and technical experts/disciplines to ensure that actions to achieve the strategy are suitably stretching and are delivering desired improvement outcomes.
• The translation of strategic objectives into tangible and measurable actions in the short term, and for them to be aligned across the full HS2 programme.
• The seamless peer-to-peer handover of measurable actions and the feedback in response to future iterations of the strategies.
• Developing and implementing the HS2 “Safe at Heart” culture and programme, to engage the supply chain and internal workforce to engender authentic healthy, safe and secure behaviour and approaches in every aspect of the programme’s design, delivery and operation.
• Responsible for the identification, dissemination and embedding of cross programme thematic learning to deliver Health, Safety and Security improvement.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Require Criteria

The role requires a qualified Senior Health & Safety Leader – could be Head, Director, Senior leader who has extensive experience developing and implementing Health & Safety Strategy across complex systems.  They will be comfortable working at Senior Executive level and have excellent communication and influencing skills and awareness of embedding H&S culture.

Open to Qualified (ideally Chartered but not essential) Health & Safety professionals from a range of safety critical environments – Rail, Civil, Power, Nuclear, utilities, Oil & Gas, aviation etc.

Skills:

• Influencing and negotiation skills – including external stakeholders, Joint Venture boards, delivery and executive teams across HS2.
• Leadership skills – including the ability to set a common purpose and goal for supply chain, HS2 teams and Integrated Project Team (IPT) Leadership teams aligned to HS2 values.
• Ability to manage technical performance including identifying and sponsoring areas for improvement.
• Ability to manage risk effectively including balancing decisions relating to schedule, cost and safety.
• Ability to work collaboratively with directorates across HS2 and supply chain teams to deliver an integrated approach.

Knowledge:

• Application of health and safety, including occupational health in delivery of major projects and infrastructure, including how to deliver Health & Safety strategies across the supply chain.
• Analytical skills – being able to analyse data to review incidents and trends to support action planning.
• Ideally Chartered Health and Safety professional or equivalent.

Type of Experience:

• Experience of successfully developing and implementing strategies across complex systems.
• Experience of leading Health and Safety in a high-risk environment (i.e. a regulated industry – which may include but is not limited to nuclear, construction, airlines, etc).
• Experience in leading health, safety, wellbeing, and security collaboratively with clients and supply chain.