Health & Safety Strategy & Performance Manager

Is your next role one where you can apply a blend of strategic and operational experience to make sustainable and meaningful change?

About the Health & Safety Strategy & Performance Manager role:

Working with our Health & Safety Director, your work will involve a blend of strategic and operational tasks enabling you to deliver continuous improvement in Health & Safety performance across the business.

In this new role, you will set out the business strategy to inform decision making that will drive meaningful and sustainable change. Working cross-functionally across the business, you will drive major workstreams, remove roadblocks, and serve as a thought leader to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities as our Health & Safety Strategy & Performance Manager include:

• Deliver a Health & Safety strategy that delivers continuous improvement across the business
• Delivering a pragmatic, easily accessible, and simple Health & Safety management system solution that enables all employees to understand requirements, to use data and to drive improvement
• Being accountable for the Health & Safety Management System
• Being accountable for the process of analysis of performance information
• Ensuring the quality, accuracy, and assurance of performance information and management reporting from the front line to Board
• Coordinating Health & Safety audit actions and associated follow up activities
  

What we are looking for in our Health & Safety Strategy & Performance Manager:

• NEBOSH or equivalent certificate in Health and Safety is desirable
• Drive an analytical and problem-solving approach, and ensure strong documentation and reporting typically for senior leadership or board level review
• Rigorous planning, organisational and delivery capabilities, with a high attention to detail
• Ability to form strong stakeholder relationships across the business
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and get involved across the business
• Mentorship within the team

What's in it for you:

We know that the support and commitment of our staff is key to our success so you will receive the opportunity for ongoing development and training for a long-term career with us.

In return, we will offer an excellent range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Company car or "cash for car" option
• A discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Contributory Pension
• Access to the Company Sharesave Scheme
• Various health benefits

Be yourself, we like it that way. Together, we will build a culture of belonging, where inclusion is instinctive. Diversity is our strength and a reflection of our communities. We care, we value everyone, we celebrate uniqueness.

South West Water is part of the Pennon Group, a very successful and stable business that prides itself on sustainability. We provide reliable, efficient and high-quality drinking water and wastewater services for a population of c. 1.7 million in Cornwall, Devon, and parts of Somerset and Dorset.

We believe that by investing in the future of our region, we are not only improving the quality of life for today's residents and visitors but are also taking responsibility for future generations. Responsibility for the environment is central to this. Our aim is to continually drive up standards, particularly in the areas that matter most to our customers.

Our core values which are essential to our success are:

• Trusted - We do the right thing for our customers and stakeholders.
• Collaborative - We forge strong relationships working together to make a positive impact.
• Responsible - We keep our promises to our customers, communities, and each other.
• Progressive - We are always looking for new ways to improve and make life better.

Closing date: 29th November 2021

If you are looking for a new challenge, please click apply now to be considered as our Health & Safety Strategy & Performance Manager -we look forward to receiving your application.