Senior HSS Strategy Manager

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Job Description

Salary Birmingham: "Base salary: £54,500pa to c.£68,150pa depending on skills and experience.

In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Senior HSS Strategy Manager at HS2 you will be 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.

About the role:

• 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 in EDI

About You:

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.
• Chartered Health and Safety professional or equivalent.

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.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will 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.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.