Regional Health and Safety Business Partner

Rullion Engineering Limited are currently recruiting on behalf of a large Utilities company based in the Northwest for a Regional Health and Safety Business Partner, on a permanent basis. We have been providing our client with experienced Individuals for over 10 years helping to deliver a high number of projects within the Industry.

The purpose of this role is to help the nominated business area in controlling health and safety (H&S) risks, and reducing incident rates via detailed analysis of current performance and the delivery of sustainable improvement plans. It will be your role to own and deliver assigned projects on behalf of the health and safety team.

You will be based at the Head Office in Warrington but you will be responsible for sites in Merseyside and Cheshire, so you will be required to travel for this role.

Job Accountabilities

* Regularly undertake effective diagnosis of H&S performance for the supported area in order to identify true root causes.
* Develop H&S plans that can be tracked through to completion and reported on.
* Own and deliver assigned projects for H&S improvement activities.
* Support the nominated area in the development and implementation of training plans, competency and capability requirements for employees to enhance awareness, engagement and capability.
* Support the delivery and adoption of a structured H&S management system across the business.
* Ensure that the true root causes of accidents and incidents have been identified and that remedial actions are tracked to completion within the nominated area of support.
* Manage the relationship with internal stakeholders.
* Provide advice and support to nominated area on H&S issues and agree ownership and content of H&S plans.

Knowledge and Skills

* NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
* Chartered IOSH status (or working towards this).
* Knowledge of safety management theory and evidence of having put this into practice.
* Knowledge of environmental regulatory requirements.
* Proven track record of reducing incident rates and sustaining them via targeted improvement activities.
* A good understanding of behavioural theory and practice.
* Experience of successfully supporting strategic relationships with key external stakeholders.
* Evidence of excellent influencing and negotiation skills with key stakeholders.
* Experience of working within a unionised environment and having forged strong partnerships.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of effective communication with stakeholders from board to site.
* A sound ability of communicating and presenting to senior level, both internally and externally, in meetings and in writing.

Desirable Criteria

* Minimum of 2 A level qualifications with Degree level preferred.

Should your application be successful and you are offered the role, a number of pre-employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with our client will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Scotland / the Disclosure and Barring Service.