The Health, Safety & Environment Specialist executes a range of technical, strategic, and administrative activities of the HSE function, ensuring regulatory HSE compliance, development of HSE systems, processes and programmes, enabling operational excellence and safeguarding employees and communities.
H&S as a priority – health and safety is our number one priority – you’ll have a good knowledge of our key health and safety guidelines and you’ll be able to demonstrate a good understanding of why we take health and safety extremely seriously at all times.
You’ll be responsible for helping to create an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future.
- Manages within an assigned area the implementation of the global HSE policies, its mission and vision set, aligning with the wider global strategy.
- Maintains local operating procedures that meet the requirements of both the Group's HSE Integrated Management System and local laws
- Implements assigned initiatives contributing to the implementation a HSE continuous improvement plan and operational compliance programme.
- Executes activities in fulfilling the HSE function's reporting capabilities leading the development of management information reports for the global Risk, Business Assurance and Compliance management team expectations.
- Executes activities that ensure Group stakeholders adhere to robust processes that exceed the minimum legal HSE compliance requirements within the operating countries it is present in and establishes and embeds a HSE assurance programme to monitor legal compliance.
- Facilitates collaborative working partnerships and peer to peer relationships both within the function and across operations and wider stakeholders, to facilitate the achievement of objectives whilst promoting the best working practice and consistently high standards of HSE.
- Facilitates coordination of the necessary relationships with third parties, including enforcement agencies and audit bodies, clients and customers to reduce risk and continually improve the Group's HSE reputation.
- Executes activities in ensuring all Group and Group supplier locations are risk profiled and that the risk profiling drives the HSE compliance monitoring and assurance programme.
- Leads and supports the development of initiatives and best practice activities in all areas of HSE management.
- Mentors other HSE professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
- Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in HSE.
- Story-telling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences
- Risk Management: able to balance cost/effort/benefit against business and legal requirements.
- Stakeholder Management: Managing expectations and the level of stakeholder engagement. Ability to manage to complex political relationships in a variety of business and technical situations. Influence and engage with stakeholders in decisions based on analysis of their needs, interests and impact. Use empathy and the right language to avoid misunderstanding.
- Change Management: Able to create and sustain successful large scale and complex business change. An expert in change management.
- Technical Expert: Provides comprehensive technical expertise on emerging technologies. Coordinates knowledge sharing with the team. Is recognise as a specialist/expert in the field with networks on the outside of BT.
- Communication Ability: Able to express ideas, explanations or opinions in a way that is appropriate to the situation, understandable to audience and demonstrating a constructive, assured and non-confrontational manner. Is able to put forward cogent and structured argument to gain buy-in and influence decisions, maintaining composure in doing so.
- Give specialised advice: Provides guidance and counsel on complex and unfamiliar situations and leverages other experts to develop solutions.
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme (5% from you, 10% from BT)
- Flexible benefits
- Employee discounts (50% off EE for you, 30% off EE for friends & family and discounted BT broadband & TV)
- Flexible Working - This role offers a 3 together, 2 wherever working model
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.