Health and Safety Manager - Building & Construction
Morrisons has a fantastic opportunity for a Property Health & Safety professional to lead all Health & Safety matters across all RIBA stages in the Property function, including construction matters.
The role supports the Property team, driving health & safety compliance across our estate in stores and all affiliated sites. You will ensure continuous improvement and implement best practice to keep customers, colleagues, contractors and members of the public safe.
The role involves travel across the UK to our construction sites and projects to review compliance and standards. This will include completion of recorded audits during visits and provision of support to ensure a safe working environment. You will also spend time at Morrisons Head office in Bradford. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to meet existing objectives and lead on driving improvements in Health & Safety culture and compliance. Areas to be covered include, but are not limited to, Asset Creation, Pre-Construction phase, Construction phase, Asset Management and Landlord Responsibilities.
Reporting to the Head of Health & Safety, in summary you will be responsible for leading Health & Safety across everything we do within the Property division. This includes:
● Creating Morrisons Health & Safety policies and ways of working
● Developing and leading Health & Safety risk management strategies and frameworks across Group Property’s critical risk areas
● Managing and continuously improving Property Health & Safety Management Systems
● Confidence and robustness when reporting to senior management via all appropriate Property Health & Safety Governance Forums
● Ensuring contractors, colleagues and visitors comply with Health and Safety legislation and adhere to all Morrisons policies and procedures in relation to safe working practises
● Undertaking the lead role in the continuous improvement of the Company safety plan demonstrating a strong safety culture for employees, visitors, consultants and contractors
● Reviewing all Health and Safety compliance on sites and delivering accurate reports and trends
● Ensuring regular Health and Safety reviews which measure safe working practices are undertaken by others and are completed
● Recording and reviewing statistical data of accidents, incidents and near misses
● Proactively leading and supporting others during investigations, production of root cause analyses reports and subsequent remedial actions
● Ensuring regular Health and Safety information bulletins are produced and circulated whenever required by lessons learned from incidents or changes in legislation
● Driving an open and honest environment with external contractors
● Ensuring that all Health & Safety targets and standards are met at all times
● Identifying and arranging training and guidance both in person and online to drive a progressive Health & Safety culture within Property.
● Monitoring trends to ensure corrective actions are implemented and completed by managers
● Leading Health and Safety when in attendance at site meetings in partnership with Principal Contractors/Contractors and listening and responding to issues and concerns
● Proactively drive contractor and stakeholder meetings to build engagement, to provide information and trends which identify key concerns and to offer solutions for improvement
● Building great relationships with internal stakeholders at other sites, sharing best practice and proactively supporting and coaching all colleagues to ensure Health and Safety is prioritised on site
About you
Knowledge Required:
● Member of relevant professional organisation & undertaking CPD
● In-depth knowledge and understanding of the Health & Safety management systems including Fire.
● In-depth knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety and related legislation and its requirements
● Knowledge of the Health & Safety requirements of Landlords and how these work in practice
Skills Required:
● Excellent and strong communication, engagement and motivational skills
● Excellent analytical skills and ability to produce management information in impactful ways
● Ability to coach to drive performance improvement
● The ability to engage with colleagues at all levels to drive improvements
● Ability to influence business decisions that impact on Health & Safety and legality
● The ability to champion the customer and retain a customer focus whilst keeping Health & Safety at the forefront
● Ability to identify risk and prioritise tasks
● Tenacity to follow up and resolve issues
● Analytical thinking
Experience:
● Minimum of 5 years experience in Health & Safety management
● Experience working in a complex organisation with multiple Stakeholders
● Experience working in Health & Safety in Construction
● Incident investigation and managementAbout us
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
- 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member
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Annual bonus scheme
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Generous holiday entitlement
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Four and a half day working week with flexible working hours
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Company pension contributions
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Private healthcare
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Perks with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
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Reward & Benefits
We've highlighted below some of our standard Rewards & Benefits that our colleagues receive. Please note, some roles come with additional benefits such as bonus, company car allowance etc. you'll find further details where applicable in our adverts, or you can speak to someone in our resourcing team for more information.
Plan your journey
Head Office, United Kingdom, BD3 7DL
Learning and development is at the heart of our business
As you can imagine, Morrisons is a busy place to be. There’s lots going on - processes, changes, new initiatives, different ways of working. And that’s just on a Monday morning.
It means there’s a lot to learn. But learning isn’t just about understanding what’s involved in day-to-day workloads. It’s also about growing and developing in your career, too. That’s why we’ve made sure that learning and development is at the heart of our business. We’re here to make sure everyone has everything they need to be their best - and to go as far as they want.
Our DE&I workstreams
We're proud to have a diverse group of colleagues working here. We want everyone to feel valued in an environment where we promote respect, where they feel a sense of belonging, and feel celebrated as individuals.
These are the moments that matter to them - and they matter to us, too.
Everyone is welcome to get involved in our Ethnic Diversity, Ability, LGBTQ+, Women, and Family & Carers workstreams, too. They’re designed to help us better reflect our customers, colleagues, and communities so we can become an even more inclusive business.
As a business, we love bringing people together. And we think it’s one of the biggest reasons to be part of our team.
Our Process
We've outlined below what our typical process looks like, this can vary slightly depending upon the role or team you've applied for. Our goal is to provide a positive and accessible experience for all applicants, ensuring everyone has the support they need to showcase their best selves.
Our resourcing team are on hand to help with any questions about your application and you can reach them by e-mailing resourcing@morrisonsplc.co.uk.
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Find an opportunity that's right for you
Once you've found a role that's right for you, you can apply via this site. If it's your first time applying with us then we'll need all your essential information and we might ask you to upload your most recent CV. If you've applied for roles with us before then we should recognise you and you won't need to share these details again, unless something has changed that you need to update us on.
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Online Assessment (Customer Assistant roles)
After your application, we might send you an e-mail and ask you to complete an online assessment. This is typically a situation judgement test where we'll ask you ten questions with mutliple choice answers and takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. The questions will give you a feel for the types of scenarios you might encounter working in our stores - think customer first.
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Let's find out more
For some of our stores and site roles, if you've been successful with your application we might just e-mail and ask you to book a slot for your interview. For other roles our resourcing team will get in touch with you to find out a bit more about you and why you applied. They'll also answer any questions you might have about us and the role. After all, it's a two way process!
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Interview
Our interviews are typically face to face but can sometimes be virtual. Don't worry, we'll advise either way. Your interview can differ depending on the role or team. Part of the interview may include some competency questions against our Ways of Working (listed below).
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Final Stage
With some of our roles there might be a second interveiw. This tends to be for roles in our Head Office and some salaried positions across our stores and sites. As part of this second stage, we might ask you to complete a task, such as a SWOT analysis or something similar, and present it back during the interview. This helps us understand your approach and thinking about the role.
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Decision
Our resourcing team or the store or site you've applied to will be in touch with you as soon as they can to let you know the outcome. If you've been successful we'll share the details of our offer with you and follow up with everything you need on e-mail.
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working are like a set of values that define our core beliefs, guide decision-making, and shape our culture and how we operate.
Customer First - I care about our customers and do everything I can to meet their needs
Teamwork - I always play my part in the team, and I recognise we go further together
Working Freely in a Framework - I’m trusted to make my own decisions and encouraged to improve things for customers and for us
Care and Respect - We care more and try harder; for each other, for everyone around Morrisons
Listen and Respond - I take the time to talk with and listen to colleagues and customers, and always do the right thing for the them
Grow Sales, Low Cost - I understand my part in the end-to-end process and look for ways to drive improvement
Life at Morrisons offers more than you imagine.
We’re a Yorkshire based food manufacturer and retailer, and our story began with a simple market stall in Bradford all the way back in 1899. Today, we’re still just as committed to delivering on our promise of 'freshness from farm to fork' for every customer. It’s why we’ve grown to become one of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And, with 90,000 colleagues, nearly 500 stores, and 11 million customers every week, there are now more reasons to join us than you can imagine.
Discover Head Office at Morrisons
Our stores aren’t the only place where the magic happens. You’ll find a proper buzz at Head Office in Bradford, too. This is where support for store colleagues begins, from those big board decisions on our business processes, right down to thinking up new ideas to help support our colleagues.
But what we love most about Head Office is that there are more functions than you probably imagine - from trading to marketing, finance to tech, and HR to property. And we all work together to make sure our stores and manufacturing & logistics sites have everything they need to succeed.
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