Safety Manager

Our client, a large government customer, are seeking a Safety Manager to join their team. The role is based in Bristol with some remote working possible. The role requires SC clearance. 

Requirements are scheduled to run until 31/03/2025 (55 days) and offer a rate up to £550/day.

IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. Our client has indicated that they intend to operate the engagement as Inside IR35. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement. The rates above represent rate payable to the umbrella co.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 18/12/2024 at 10:00 

Detailed Description

ITS-SED requires a Safety Manager that is able to act as a ‘controlling’ mind in advising Senior Safety accountable and responsible personnel on delivery of safety programmes and artefacts.

Main Responsibilities

The Safety Manager will be required to:

• Deliver against the overarching programme and established safety management plan.
• Evolve and advise the safety programme to de-risk delivery and capitalise on opportunities.
• Work for assigned delivery teams to produce safety and environmental artefacts to time and quality requirements
• The Safety Manager shall advise the Delivery Team (DT) to ensure the programme will deliver artefacts to demonstrate that policy, legislation and defence regulation have been met and that assets are demonstrably safe.
• The Safety Manager shall be the DT focal point.  As a result, will be required to represent the DT at required safety engagements, including regulatory interface, and have the ability to brief up and down.
• The Safety Manager will be responsible for the day to day activity, delivering against agreed activity and tasks.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience required of delivering Land Equipment safety and environmental artefacts.
• Experience required in safety case reports and hazard logs.
• To work within an ITS-SED multi-discipline Acquisition Safety and Environmental Protection (ASEP) team.  Operating as an effective MOD safety and / or environmental protection manager or providing support to safety and environmental protection activities (i.e. the implementation of POSMS and POEMS, compliance with applicable military regulation and defence standards, DE&S aspects of the management of in-service capability); Initially deployed to either AJAX or MIV DTs.
• Land Equipment safety management
• LEOC require Safety Managers that are able to lead on the safety aspects of the programme and are responsible for the delivery and maintenance of safety artefacts.
• Management. Practitioner level experience of DE&S safety management systems and processes (POSMS).
• Practitioner level experience of leading safety management tasks in DE&S.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in working within concept Projects
• Maritime Combat Systems Experience
• Working with Land Equipment Operating Centre (LEOC)
• Environmental management (POEMS).
• eCassandra.
• Fault and Event Tree (FTA / ETA).
• BowTie assessment.
• Safety arguments (CAE / GSN).
• Knowledge of applicable legislation, regulation and standards and defence policy.
• Hermes.
• Resolve.
• ASPIRE.
• ASSERT.

Specialisms Required

• Defence Safety Management and Environmental Protection Planning.
• Defence Regulations.
• Through Life Safety Management.
• Defence Safety Management Systems.
• Safety Case Management and Reporting.
• Safety Legislation, Regulation, Conventions and defence policy.
• Hazard Log Management.
• Compliance Management.

Candidate Eligibility

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 – General visas cannot be accepted.

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