Health and Safety and Business Continuity Manager in Chesterfield

Join us as our Health and Safety / Business Continuity Manager and ensure we operate within the requirements of Health and Safety practice and legislation and can respond to emergencies and incidents.

Welcome to EMCCA. EMCCA is the UK’s first mayor-led combined county authority. The East Midlands is a great region, but it deserves to be better. Better connected, better funded and better prepared for a future of opportunity, growth, and hope. EMCCA will oversee devolved powers around transport, housing, skills and adult education, economic development, and net zero. We will conceive the strategies and create the connections that will empower local partners, people and businesses – maximising the impact of billions of pounds of funding. Together, our new EMCCA team can put the East Midlands on the map as a place to live, work and study.

Your role in elevating the East Midlands is key in controlling occupational risk and ensuring a safe environment. Your expert knowledge and skills will help generate and promote a positive health and safety culture as you manage and co-ordinate all health and safety systems. The development and implementation of our overall strategy and policies will also be part of your remit, providing professional advice, guidance and assistance to all our teams in developing emergency plans, including business continuity arrangements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing a specialist advisory role on all aspects of health and safety and legislative requirements, including strategy, policy, procedure and managing and monitoring compliance.
• Developing and implementing strategy, policy and procedure around key areas of environmental management and auditing.
• Managing designated areas of business continuity and resilience, emergency planning, response, recovery and counter terrorism support.
• Providing pragmatic and practical advice on a range of specialist areas; including fire regulations, hazardous substances, noise, safeguarding machinery and occupational diseases.
• Carrying out risk, DSE and COSHH assessments and considering how risks could be removed or reduced.
• Carrying out regular planned and unplanned site inspections to monitor the implementation and consistent application of policies, procedures and safe systems of work.
• Attendance at meetings and leading in-house training with managers and employees about health and safety issues and risk awareness and management.
• Producing regular management information reports, intranet articles/pages, newsletters and bulletins.

Your profile:

• Excellent technical knowledge of relevant legislation, regulation, and guidance.
• Significant experience as a Health and Safety professional leading staff in a customer-facing environment.
• Significant expertise in procurement policy and procedure development and implementation.
• Able to develop business-focused Health and Safety and Business Continuity strategies and proactive services.
• Successfully delivered significant change management programmes in a large complex organisation.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• A clear and analytical thinker with high standards of professional judgment and integrity.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with excellent report writing skills and able to draft complex documents.
• Experience of presenting information to Boards and Committees within a large complex organisation.

For more details on EMCCA including our rewards and benefits, please visit https://eastmidscareers.co.uk. Office location – all roles are based at NGEC, Saltergate, Chesterfield, S40 1UT unless stated otherwise. Please note – at this time EMCCA cannot offer sponsorship. Closing date: 30th June 2025.