Building Stronger Futures
23 days ago
Intermediate (4-7 years), Experienced (8-12 years)
Full Time
United Kingdom
Onsite
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees Employees
Service Specialisms
Sector Specialisms
As part of a team of six, you will provide expert guidance to the Management Team on Health & Safety (H&S) strategy, driving continuous improvement in H&S performance. You will act as a subject matter expert, ensuring departmental compliance with Occupational Health and Safety standards, supporting the development and delivery of business standards and training.
Analyse incident trends and lead Zero Harm campaigns.
Serve as the primary safety contact for work areas, providing visible, accessible guidance and support to plant teams.
Support regulator visits, including response planning and timely action tracking.
Monitor and manage occupational safety performance within assigned departments.
Drive the Safety Improvement Plan at strategic, tactical, and operational levels to reduce risk, injury, and loss.
Actively participate in departmental safety meetings, influencing effective action and ensuring compliance with standards.
Oversee creation of safety-related training packages and generic H&S competencies for all roles.
Oversee incident classification, reporting, and investigation (including RIDDOR), ensuring high-quality, prompt completion and sharing lessons learned.
Master and provide expert guidance on Business Health & Safety Standards/Instructions; lead audits, assist with training delivery, and support ongoing development.
Promote a strong safety culture through engagement, mentoring, and coaching, while maintaining zero tolerance for breaches.
An individual with strong organisational and communication skills, capable of building relationships with safety and operational professionals across British Steel. You should be confident liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including employee representatives, TU Safety reps, H&S professionals, enforcement agencies, and senior management, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and industry best practice. The ideal candidate will also have significant H&S management experience, demonstrable delivery of H&S performance improvement, hold a NEBOSH General certificate and Lead Auditor certification, have experience in manufacturing and/or construction environments.
We know our employees are our greatest asset and alongside the great benefits packages we offer, we continue to invest in their careers by providing a huge range of training and development opportunities.
Health Cash Plan via our partnership with Simply health
A comprehensive Company sick pay scheme
Life Assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Family friendly benefits including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
Defined contribution company pension scheme
Salary - Competitive
27 personal annual leave days + statutory bank holidays
British Steel is one of the leading steel manufacturers in Europe, producing around 3 million tonnes of quality steel products every year. From this, we manufacture more than 1,450 different specifications of steel that gets rolled into rail, sections, special profiles and wire rod. We have manufacturing facilities across the UK and Europe, supplying premium products around the world. We also have a global network of regional sales teams, so our global customers receive local service. In March 2020, British Steel was bought by Jingye Group, a leading Chinese multi-industrial company specialising in iron and steel manufacturing. We're a company with a proud heritage and a passion to build stronger futures. Our past has always been important to us but now we’re looking to the future, maintaining world leader status in steel production. Our steel has been, and continues to be, fundamental in creating iconic, awe-inspiring structures around the world. It helps people travel, work, eat and socialise every day. More importantly, it helps keep us safe. As British Steel, we're agile and easy to do business with, which means we’re responsive, adaptable, competitive and proactive in our markets and for our customers. We know we have passionate, hard-working, ambitious and dedicated employees and together we can create a future we are all proud to be part of.