Safety Lead
Location: Wellingborough and surrounding areas
Contract: Full Time/Permanent
Salary: dependent on experience and skills
At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.
Who we are?
Integrated Maintenance & Repair (IMR) Alliance – Part of the Anglian Water network, focuses on infrastructure maintenance work and is responsible for: water network pressure management, finding and fixing leaks, replacing lead pipes and repairing burst mains.
What will you be doing as a Safety Lead?
You should have previous experience in a senior health & safety role with the ability to work with and influence at all different levels across organisations.
You’ll work as part of the alliance to lead HS&W strategy in IMR Alliance ensuring appropriate safety strategies in place to help achieve the IMR WR business plans, and ensure delivery is monitored, managed and assured.
A key part of your role will be to manage and lead a team of Safety Professionals. Provide visible leadership and coaching which continually raises their skills, capabilities, quality of service, insights and ideas they are able to offer.
You will work with IMR operational teams to understand challenges and provide guidance and leadership for teams to work safely and efficiently through positive HS&W support and innovation.
Creating a positive safety culture and contribute positively to the Alliance overall business plan as well as Anglian Water and Pan Alliance H&S plans
You’ll work alongside the Anglian Water Safety Business Partner, the Alliance Leadership team and Board, develop and agree suitable safety targets
and outcome measures aligned across the business.
You will support Pan Alliance initiatives and ensure consistency for HS&W providing positive collaboration and engagement to contribute to collective success.
Identifying and driving key improvements and consistency to Health, Safety & Wellbeing in order to make it easier to achieve the objectives. You’ll work as a member of the Alliance Leadership team supporting and advising all levels on any aspect of H&S.
Key responsibilities:
Lead and direct Alliance Leadership teams to develop and agree health and safety targets and outcome measures in line with AW and home organisation and identify long term strategy.
Implement an Assurance process to demonstrate compliance and to identify areas for improvement in order to become industry leading.
Lead and support the identification of improvements and opportunities for health, safety & Wellbeing including streamlined policies & procedures and working practices.
Identify opportunities for innovation for health and safety in IMR and across Pan Alliance, utilising home organisations bringing outside in.
Ensure compliance with current environmental legislation and promote best practices relevant to IMR Alliance
Support Partner Organisations in achieving their environmental goals and sustainability objectives
Lead and direct on accident & incident investigations
Manage the continuous improvement of environmental / sustainability performance for the Alliance
A little about your skills, behaviours and attributes required for this role
Do the right thing for the Alliance, home organisations and Pan Alliance to ensure HS&W is a core value, front of mind and consistent across all areas - raising standards to be industry leading
Build trust with key stakeholders in Alliance, AW and home organisations with positive engagement and collaboration for health, safety and wellbeing driving continuous improvement and consistency in all areas
Be innovative and explore using professional H&S knowledge to find new ways of improving H&S in the Alliance and across all AW to make life better and safer looking outward to benchmark and bring fresh ideas in.
Proactive and analytical: able to view the Business objectively, to provide a clear analysis, backed by evidence, of the strengths and weaknesses of the Alliance.
Track record of being a catalyst for change achieving visible improvements through positive leadership.
Able to analyse business strategy and translate into clear, actionable and measurable people plans.
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
If you are looking for the next step in your career whilst having a positive impact on our performance, please apply today!