Health & Safety Manager - Welwyn Garden City
About the role
At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us.Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working.
So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We are currently recruiting a Health & Safety Manager, to be responsible for ensuring the compliance of Distribution and Fulfilment Safety Management System. This role involves developing, implementing, and maintaining safety policies to ensure a safe working environment and compliance to the relevant legal duties.
You will be responsible for
ties.- Maintain the Distribution & Customer Fulfilment Centre Safety Management System in line with ISO 45001 that reflects the legal requirement and standard process
- Interpreting Group Safety Standards to develop and help implement safety policies in line with legal requirements, industry standard methodology and ISO 45001 accreditation
- Ensuring that UK Distribution and Fulfilment Centres operate safely by giving advice and support to Directors and senior managers in relation to safety issues
- Being one of the proficient persons within the UK Tesco organisation for principle health and safety advice and direction in Distribution and Fulfilment
- Continuously improving safety standards through innovative methods that change behaviour and improve knowledge about health and safety whilst ensuring the best value
- Providing technical knowledge to Group People Safety and Distribution and Fulfilment Support Office on matters of health and safety and supporting the activities of the Union Health and safety Working party
- Supporting rapid response to serious accidents in the UK at short notice to advice team members on independent accident investigation
- Being the lead for the Distribution and Fulfilment Governance framework and facilitating the Periodic meetings
- Maintain the ISO 45001 programme, engaging with BSI to ensuring continual improvement for our Safety Management System
- Lead and maintain the Fire Risk Assessment programme with 3rd party ensuring our legal requirement is met
- Lead and maintain the Group COMAH compliance with Distribution Act as subject matter authority for the Tesco Group Distribution Network
- Operational knowledge in Distribution or logistics
- Operational safety experience in similar industry
- Process and Policy writing
- Achieved or working towards CMIOSH as a minimum
- Experience in related industry or retail policy development and implementation
- Highly effective communication and partner leadership skills
- Accident investigation techniques knowledge
- Auditing experience
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com