Health & Safety Advisor

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Manchester Airports Safety Department as a Safety Advisor reporting to the Safety Business Partner.

In this role you’ll devise and deliver safety improvement actions and initiatives, and contribute to the effective delivery of the annual safety strategy to mature and enhance the business safety performance and culture. You’ll carry out assurance activities to ensure compliance with standards and continuous improvement, including identifying and enabling delivery of recommendations, to grow maturity and enhance the business safety performance and culture.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of all Health and Safety policies and procedures to ensure accurate advice is provided.
• Offer clear, correct, and consistent guidance to line managers to interpret regulatory requirements and integrate them into business planning, covering incident management, investigations, risk assessments, specialist safety assessments, inspection and monitoring, L1 assurance plans, and corrective action management.
• Develop and deliver training programmes to enhance Line Managers’ understanding of policies, procedures, and H&S legislation as needed.
• Support incident investigations to identify root causes and ensure appropriate remedial actions are implemented and tracked to completion, escalating risks to the H&S Business Partner as necessary.
• Monitor and oversee departmental Health and Safety Training plans, ensuring they are developed and compliance is tracked through local forums.
• Participate in and support departmental consultative forums, such as Health and Safety Local Forums.
• Provide technical health and safety support for projects to ensure regulatory standards are met.
• Support and deputise for the Health Safety Business Partner in the implementation and management of MAG priorities.
• Assist with change management programs, ensuring all system actions are completed following the change.
• Develop and monitor leading and lagging HSE performance indicators for departments, interpret data, and implement improvements based on findings.
• Contribute to and, where appropriate, conduct HSE audits and inspections, compiling reports and recommendations.

Qualifications & Skills

The successful candidate will have Health and Safety experience, preferably dealing with complex and high‑hazard environments, experience of H&S Incident management, incident investigation, risk assessment, and knowledge of up‑to‑date health and safety law. A NEBOSH General Certificate is essential, along with strong communication and influencing skills, the ability to interact at all levels of the business, and experience of analysing information to determine effective solutions. A high level of computer literacy, self‑motivation, passion for health and safety, and the ability to prioritise and manage demands are also required.

Benefits

• Flexible and generous company pension plan with various company contribution options (up to 10%) that you can change to suit your personal needs.
• Free parking.
• Subsidised public transport.
• Huge range of company discounts.
• 2 volunteering days per year.
• Free VirtualGP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Care Concierge service.

How to Apply

Successful candidates may be invited to complete an online assessment and attend an interview. For further information about this role, please contact Jennifer Sharkey, Safety Business Partner, via email at jennifer.sharkey@magairports.com.