Quality, Safety & Environment Manager

Job Introduction

Are you a Health & Safety professional leader with a background working with a large number of sites? Do you have proven experience delivering Health & Safety, environmental strategies and developing people at all levels?

We are currently looking for a Quality, Safety & Environment Manager to implement, monitor, review and train health and safety processes and procedures across 60 of our UK client sites. You will be fully responsible for the implementation and adherence to all legislative requirements, whilst driving innovation and continuous improvement of people, systems processes and services.

The ideal candidate will have excellent client relationship management skills, proven experience in a multi-services environment and the ability to influence and deliver positive change. This role will require travel across the UK so you will be required to be flexible. The majority of our client sites are based in Scotland/North of England and London, so it will be beneficial for someone to be based in these areas. However, we are open to applications from across other regions.

Role Responsibility

• Implement, monitor and review health and safety processes and action plans to ensure all client sites comply with best practice and legislative requirements.
• Provide safety, health, risk & quality support to Sodexo operations and external clients in accordance with Company procedures and agreed objectives
• Promote and develop a Safety Culture which secures effective implementation of policy, procedures and responsibilities throughout the Sodexo operational delivery
• Implement initiatives to support the attainment of CS UK&I health & safety targets, in particular the reduction of lost time injuries.
• Develop Risk Registers at Operational and Strategic levels.
• Production of site and task specific documentation while site teams maintain service delivery
• Produce tailored mobilization and transition plans and H&S interface documents which solution Sodexo ways of working on client sites.
• Support on the development and implementation of Risk Management and Business Continuity Initiatives.
• Full Health and Safety Compliance across all Service Lines within scope with on-going proactive management of all Health and Safety risks within the business area/contract
• Ensure technical compliance across sites – legionella, asbestos, electrical, permittable works

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in a multi services environment
• Experience delivering Health & Safety training
• Detailed knowledge of current Health & Safety legislation
• Proven recent experience of Risk Management and Business Continuity

Desirable

• National H&S qualification (NVQ Level 5/6 or equivalent)
• Member of IOSH
• Experience in Hard Services
• Knowledge of Sodexo processes

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process