Principal Fire Safety Engineer in Oxford

Title: Safety and Compliance Deputy Manager

Location: Oxford

Hours: Full‑time, 08:00‑17:00, Monday to Friday, office‑based

Salary: £50k‑£60k DOE

Role Purpose: The Safety and Compliance Deputy Manager will support the company in ensuring full…

Reporting into the Quality Manager, you will focus on internal and external health, safety, quality and environmental management of our contracts, providing technical support to all internal teams which deliver a broad range of safety and control systems.

The Quality officer will also be responsible for maintaining and developing systems which ensure the risks are being managed in accordance with legal, statutory and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Internal risk assessments, monitoring completion of action plans.
• Audits.
• Assist in accident investigations and monitor completion of corrective and preventive action plans.
• Compliance.
• Co‑coordinate safety requirements for emergency plans, fire drills and access control.
• Review health and safety/quality plans for new projects.
• RAMS.
• Develop effective relationships with the clients\’ HSQE representatives.
• Act as point of contact for external accreditation companies.
• Maintain QMS for a range of ISO standards.

Qualifications

• Quality focused with hopefully some safety experience.
• In depth understanding of the ISO 9001, 45001 and 14001 standards.
• Experience in near‑miss accident investigations.
• Experience in delivering support to office‑based employees.
• Quality and/or auditing qualification (desirable).
• Qualified within H&S e.g. NEBOSH/IOSH certificate (desirable).
• Membership of the appropriate technical institution (IOSH, CQI, IEMA – working towards).
• Rail industry (Sentinel) experience would be an advantage.