Health & Safety Manager

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are currently recruiting a Health & Safety Manager, to be responsible for ensuring the compliance of Distribution and Fulfilment Safety Management System. This role involves developing, implementing, and maintaining safety policies to ensure a safe working environment and compliance to the relevant legal duties.

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• Maintain the Distribution & Customer Fulfilment Centre Safety Management System in line with ISO 45001 that reflects the legal requirement and standard process
• Interpreting Group Safety Standards to develop and help implement safety policies in line with legal requirements, industry standard methodology and ISO 45001 accreditation
• Ensuring that UK Distribution and Fulfilment Centres operate safely by giving advice and support to Directors and senior managers in relation to safety issues
• Being one of the proficient persons within the UK Tesco organisation for principle health and safety advice and direction in Distribution and Fulfilment
• Continuously improving safety standards through innovative methods that change behaviour and improve knowledge about health and safety whilst ensuring the best value
• Providing technical knowledge to Group People Safety and Distribution and Fulfilment Support Office on matters of health and safety and supporting the activities of the Union Health and safety Working party
• Supporting rapid response to serious accidents in the UK at short notice to advice team members on independent accident investigation
• Being the lead for the Distribution and Fulfilment Governance framework and facilitating the Periodic meetings
• Maintain the ISO 45001 programme, engaging with BSI to ensuring continual improvement for our Safety Management System
• Lead and maintain the Fire Risk Assessment programme with 3rd party ensuring our legal requirement is met
• Lead and maintain the Group COMAH compliance with Distribution Act as subject matter authority for the Tesco Group Distribution Network

• Operational knowledge in Distribution or logistics
• Operational safety experience in similar industry
• Process and Policy writing
• Achieved or working towards CMIOSH as a minimum
• Experience in related industry or retail policy development and implementation
• Highly effective communication and partner leadership skills
• Accident investigation techniques knowledge
• Auditing experience

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.