Site Safety Lead in Farnborough

As a Site Safety Lead, you will act in a “business partner” capacity to provide support, competent and professional safety advice to the Site Operational Team in order to develop and continually improve all aspects of our safety culture, performance and management in accordance with the safety management system and relevant legislative requirements. Day-to-day, you’ll drive a step change in the safety culture across the business contributing to improved safety performance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work in partnership with the Head of Site and Site Compliance Lead to provide competent and professional health, safety and occasional environmental advice to operational and delivery teams.
• Lead a practical implementation and delivery of HSE legislation, policy, strategy and objectives; applying high professional standards through building strong professional internal networks.
• Lead on effective engagement with internal and external health and safety contacts/stakeholders (customers, regulators, professional bodies etc) around the organisation and industry through site visits, remote collaboration, and participation at relevant site meetings.
• Provide advice and support to operational and delivery teams in regards to HSE competence assessment, ensuring delivery teams are competent to deliver against respective HSE accountabilities and responsibilities.
• Monitor HSE performance across the business; leading, conducting and supporting 1st line assurance, local inspection, tour and sampling programmes and support business areas in maintaining ISO certification as necessary.
• To lead by example, champion best practice and encourage others to demonstrate appropriate leadership behaviours to promote a positive culture in line with our business standards and expectations for safety and environment.

Essential experience of the Site Safety Lead:

• Experience of managing Health & Safety in the workplace either as HSE Practitioner or in delivery role with key HSE responsibilities.
• Working knowledge and experience of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 management system.
• Recognised training in accident investigation including root cause analysis techniques.
• Skilled practical knowledge of Safety Management Systems.
• Ability to communicate complex and analytical information to all levels of the business and facilitate a common understanding of the content.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to express complex issues using clear language and able to prioritise while managing multiple priorities.

Essential qualifications for the Site Safety Lead:

• Level 3 or Diploma or equivalent in Health and Safety.
• Chartered or working towards chartered status of a relevant professional body.

This role is 37 hours per week based at Farnborough. Travel to other QinetiQ and customer sites will be expected.

At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community.

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.