Safety Technician

TN United Kingdom; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000

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Job reference 322765
Safety Technician
Salary: £45,944 - £49,654, plus potential annual bonus of up to 10% of your annual salary. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Permanent, Full time

Location: To cover the North-West, Preston to Cumbria

Please note - this role will require continued flexibility to support managers over a 24-hour operation and involve periods of travel, overnight stays, on a workload demand basis. A full UK driving licence is essential.

Royal Mail is transforming; it’s an exciting period as we adapt and invest in cutting-edge technology as we continue to transform into a highly efficient delivery business for the future. Automated parcel ‘super’ hubs are opening, our green credentials are growing as our vehicles are going electric, and most importantly, we put people at the heart of our business.

With a property portfolio of 2,500 and the UK’s largest fleet of approx. 50,000 vehicles, this is a great time to join a UK-wide, large-scale organisation. Our organisation is huge and so is our safety responsibility. To support this, we have a vacancy for a Safety Technician to provide expert safety advice to the operational teams.

About the role

Working with the Safety Director, Safety team, and operational and non-operational senior stakeholders to develop, launch and implement safety standards and programmes to reduce safety risks and impacts nationally.

You will:

• Provide safety coaching, training, upskilling, advice and support to the Royal Mail Group Operational and non-operational management teams functions driving up compliance to the Safety Health and Environment Management System (SHEMS)
• Represent the function at local forums providing safety subject matter expertise to operations
• Provide support and leadership to the deployment of all incident reduction, behavioural coaching and property-related programmes or initiatives in line with the content of the safety Strategy.
• Support the deployment of national programmes, providing training where specified, and ensure that operational and non-operational managers have established and are progressing appropriate plans to deliver the deployment
• Undertake safety risk assessments as prescribed by the Group Safety Management System Standards or as directed by the relevant Safety Manager
• Conduct incident investigations as directed by the Safety Manager
• Support the Safety Manager to report on all aspects of the safety performance, including audit compliance and recommended remedial actions across the business
• Undertake integrated audits in line with the audit plan, or as directed by the Safety Manager, review outputs audits and share with operational and non-operational leaders

The role is big, with potentially demanding timescales; however, the rewards will be vast. You’ll have ownership of your audit plans, manage your own diary, priorities and schedule your own site audits. Furthermore, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your safety career with one of the UK’s largest organisations.

About you

From a safety background, you need to demonstrate the following skills and experience on your CV:

• Holder of NEBOSH certificate or equivalent - desirable
• IOSH certified level membership - desirable
• Experience in auditing, risk assessments & accident investigations
• Strong communicator, able to influence at front-line level
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to prioritise activities
• IT literate and able to write reports and undertake detailed investigations
• Safety / integrated auditing
• Multi-site experience
• Experience working with trade unions would be advantageous

Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
Supportive and generous company sick pay
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Next Steps

Closing Date: Sunday 13th April. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.