Regional Health & Safety Manager - Glasgow

About the job

Explore the world of HMRC Estates, where we lead the way in government property transformation. As a key player in one of the UKs largest property programmes, HMRC Estates offers safe, inclusive workplaces and exceptional career development opportunities. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, user-friendly services that enable our colleagues to thrive in an environment where they truly belong.

Build a Career in Property with HMRC Estates. Are you looking for an organisation that cares about the work-life balance of its workforce? An employer who offers structured personal development, progression opportunities and outstanding training? Well look no further! At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We do this by taking equality, diversity and inclusion into account in everything we do. Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome and encourage applications from all people from all backgrounds with the relevant experience and skills. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you. Whats more, most roles offer hybrid working where you spend part of your working week at home giving you even more control over your work-life balance.

As the Health and Safety Manager in Glasgow you will have responsibility for implementing Estates related health and safety policy and standards within the Region, including the Government Hub at 1 Atlantic Square and the Regions Specialist and Transitional Site at East Kilbride Scottish Crime Campus at Gartcosh. You will oversee activities to ensure that our buildings and people are kept safe and lead on providing appropriate control measures for HMRCs Health and Safety Policy.

As part of the Workplace Operations team, you will build customer and stakeholder relationships within the Region on all aspects of Estates related health and safety requirements.

Key Responsibilities of the role:

• Liaise with the Estates Health Safety Specialist to identify building specific issues arising from a programme of building related H S inspections.
• Resolve and implement solutions to any issues arising as a result of the inspections and ensure remedial works are completed.
• Provide H S advice and support in respect of Estates issues to both HMRC and other Government Departments.
• Provide advice and carry out assurances to ensure effective risk assessments are in place.
• Investigate and respond to Estates related incidents recorded under the ACC1 Accident at Work process, reporting progress back to the HMRC Estates Health Safety Specialist.
• Although the role holder has overall responsibility for providing Health and Safety advice and support within the Region, the post holder will often be required to reach across to support the wider Workplace Operations team, and carry out other tasks to contribute towards the day to day running of the Estate, including responding to customer enquiries, maintaining processes within the building, updating signage etc and any other tasks directed by the Building Manager or Head of Estate.
• Provide assurance at a Regional level for statutory compliance, liaising with FM Teams to ensure statutory compliance is being met and raising any concerns over levels of safety performance or statutory compliance to Head of Estate.
• Build and maintain effective and professional working relationships across Estates to identify and promote best customer service behaviours.
• Interpret and apply statutory legislation appropriately to inform required decision making.

Essential Criteria: Candidates must demonstrate recent relevant experience in applying Health and Safety policy and standards in the workplace.

Desirable Criteria: Experience of working within a building management / property / FM function. Membership of IOSH or other relevant Health and Safety Organisation.

Qualifications: NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent NQF/QCF level 3 (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) / SCQF Level 6 (Scotland), in Health and Safety Management must be held on application. We are unable to accept applications from any candidates that do not hold this qualification.

Behaviours: We will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture.

Benefits: Alongside your salary of 37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs. We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

Eligibility: Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via email.

Sponsorship: We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship.

Security: Successful candidates must undergo a standard (or equivalent) criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Nationality requirements: This job is broadly open to UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).

Working for the Civil Service: The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissions recruitment principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.