Health & Safety/Permit Manager in London

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re currently recruiting a full-time Permit/Health & Safety Manager within our Stadium Operations team. This is a hands-on role, supporting the overall Health & Safety objectives, under the management of the Head of Occupational Health and Safety.

About You

• Responsible for the administration, coordination, planning and management of the stadiums permit to work system.
• Review permit to work applications ensuring sufficient RAMS, competencies, accreditations, and insurances are available and fit for purpose.
• Closely monitor the C&E and major bowl event calendar ensuring that PTW does not impact on the operation of the Stadium.
• Ensure site inductions are undertaken and understood before allowing sub-contractors to commence work.
• Undertake prestart checks ensuring RAMS remain suitable and sufficient and issue permit at place of work.
• Ensure adequate monitor of works through to completion, checking control measures within RAMS are being followed.
• Sign off work & permit at place of work, ensuring post checks (i.e. fire watch) have been completed and isolations reinstated.
• Support with the development and review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and Method Statements/ Risk Assessments (RAMS) across all internal department, high risk/ operational activities.
• Ensure H&S policies & procedures are followed by THFC employees, service partners, 3rd party clients, tenants, agents, and sub-contractors.
• Produce monthly reports to Line Manager on key deliverables and statistics.
• Undertake regular quality audit of H&S/ PTW systems and documentation and support with periodic audits by internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to; Local authority, SGSA, Governing bodies, Insurance providers.
• Assist with investigations of near misses, accidents, and incidents, ensuring root cause analysis and learning outcomes are identified and control measures implemented.
• Ensure legal, insurers and loss adjusters are provided with relevant documentation and information to prevent business loss within the specified timeframes.
• Support emergency planning and response protocols.
• Support with other H&S related duties deemed reasonable by line manager (i.e. Health & Safety training, Toolbox talks, slip testing, fire and first aid equipment inspections, DSE assessments).

What you will bring

• Expert knowledge of QHSE regulations and compliance with ISO 45001.
• Previous responsibility in managing policies and systems such as H&S, QA, CAFM & environmental while complying with current and appropriate legislation and standards.
• Management experience in dealing with service partners, sub-contractors, and supply chain.
• Able to co-ordinate and manage multiple projects end-to-end across multi-site facilities.
• Proven track record in the development of positive contractor relations and communications.

Personal Attributes

• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas.
• Values & respects others, build relationships, collaborates.
• Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility.
• Logical and methodical, with exceptional attention to detail.
• Flexible and professional approach to work.
• Ability to work under pressure, remain calm and focused.

Skills & Experience

• Recognised Health & Safety qualification – NEBOSH General Certificate.
• Broad understanding of construction Health & Safety law and legislation.
• IT literate in MS Office and systems management software.
• Good knowledge of fire safety systems.
• Experience of managing a permit to work system and auditing contractors.
• Experience of dealing with critical incidents (Engineering, Structure, utilities).
• Ability to write technical reports.
• Ability to lead specific audits, inspections and track corrective actions.

The Tottenham Hotspur Way is to push harder, rise higher and forge greater. We involve, inspire and elevate one another to be our best selves, to produce exceptional on and off the pitch. Every day brings us opportunities to improve and make the impossible, possible.

Our values that bind us

• DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE - Impossible made possible when we think outside the box.
• DARE TO CHANGE THE GAME - Relentlessly strive for glory and leave our mark on the world.
• DO IT OUR WAY - Win the right way, never at all costs.

Our Responsibility to you

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to various background, DBS, and reference checks for this role. We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.