Safety Management System Manager

Our client, a leading Defence & Security company, is seeking a Safety Management System Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. Based in Bristol, you will play a crucial role in delivering the Organisational Safety Management System in accordance with company policy and process.

• Maintaining Organisational SMS documentation and ensuring that everyone understands safety policies, processes, and procedures
• Challenging, inspiring, mentoring, and encouraging positive employee attitudes, behaviours, and actions towards safety
• Coaching and training staff in the use of Safety Management tools and methodologies as described in the SMS manual
• Collecting, evaluating, processing, analysing, and storing safety information from within the organization as well as the wider Defence industry
• Ensuring that proper safety training is provided so that risk assessment processes are ingrained within the organization and that safety discussions are facilitated throughout the organization
• Fostering a positive safety culture throughout the organization; this includes promoting an open reporting culture and ensuring that punitive actions are not taken against individuals making voluntary or mandatory safety reports
• Monitoring how the Just Culture policy is applied, and reporting to the Accountable Executive when issues are identified
• Ensuring that the reporting system is effective and that occurrences have been timely and properly analysed; in particular, ensuring that identified root cause(s) of incidents, accidents, and failures within the system are relevant and mitigated accordingly to prevent recurrence
• Ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are managed and implemented by the relevant departments; are performing as intended; and are reported to the safety committee (or other functional body)
• Ensuring that the organization has policies, procedures, and plans for responding to emergency situations (i.e., overseeing emergency response for the organization)
• Ensuring safety issues are properly coordinated, communicated, and addressed between internal and external bodies
• Considering internal or external factors that may result in emerging risks or require existing risk assessments to be reviewed
• Manage compliance at the company level against relevant statutory and regulatory organisational safety requirements

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of Safety Management Systems
• Formal SMS training from a credible provider
• Significant experience in delivering an SMS in a regulated industry
• Previous experience of compliance management
• Minimum SC security clearance required

In line with company Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity & eligibility to work in the UK.
If you are a highly motivated individual with a passion for safety management, then we encourage you to apply now.