HSE Compliance Manager

Job Description

Job Req ID: 58976

Clsoing Date: 2nd June

Location: Manchester

About the role

The key responsibilities of this role are crucial in maintaining high standards around Health, Safety, Environmental matters, which is a key objective BT’s corporate strategy, helping to keep our business running successfully.

BT’s property estate (c8000 spread across the UK), is diverse and geographically spread, presenting various challenges and HSE risks for those working in these environments and the broader community. This role is pivotal in managing hazardous substances, such as Asbestos, Legionella, Radon, Environmental and general Health & Safety compliance to ensure we meet our legal and moral obligations, safeguard colleague safety, and support our continuous performance improvement goals. The role holder is essential in proactively engaging with internal and external stakeholders, including our strategic alliance partners, to manage these risks effectively. Additionally, they play a vital role in the successful delivery of high-risk HSE programmes and workstreams, whilst continuously identifying improvement opportunities.

This role will help to ensure that we effectively manage our HSE risks presented through the use of our buildings and work activities undertaken by our colleagues and provide assurance to the business that all the required standards are met. Proactive engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including our strategic alliance partners, will be needed to monitor performance in these areas and identify opportunities for continual improvement. You will be tasked to take timely and appropriate steps to identify any areas of weakness or poor performance through assurance, as well as driving continual improvement to support our HSE and welfare objectives which enhance our brand and maintain our ability to do business with key customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Governance and Oversight: Leading the development and implementation of HSE compliance frameworks, including ISO45001 and ISO14001.
• System Management: Build and manage HSE management system to form the foundation of effective governance across all HSE compliance workstreams.
• Programme Delivery: Driving compliance assurance of high-risk HSE programmes such as Radon, Legionella, Flat Roofs, Waste Water, Asbestos and Environmental management across BT’s diverse property estate (~8,000 sites)
• Data and MI Utilisation: Using management information to proactively identify risks and trends, and inform strategic decision-making.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with internal teams, strategic alliance partners (e.g. CBRE, HSE consultants), and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and continuous improvement
• Policy and Process Development: Ensuring all HSE policies and procedures are current, effective, and aligned with statutory and business requirements.
• Enhancing P&FS / BT’s Safety Culture: Lead the integration of HSE into transformational and operational strategies across the organisation; promoting a safety-first culture through training, communication, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Identifying solutions - You help to identify straightforward solutions that will help to improve our management of HSE. You develop your understanding of our property portfolio and knowledge of the latest technology to help us meet our objectives.
• Understanding of regulatory framework - You will have a good understanding and application of all relevant regulatory and assurance frameworks, including ISO 45001 and ISO 14001.
• Professional qualifications – You will hold a relevant professional level 6 qualification in safety (such as NEBOSH Diploma) and hold full membership with a recognised professional body (IOSH). It is also desirable that you will have an environmental related qualification, such as IEMA Certificate.
• Stakeholder engagement - You will be able to engage effectively with external and internal stakeholders to drive performance and raise awareness of waste and natural environment controls.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Give specialised advice - You offer advice and recommendations based on your expertise both proactively and on request.
• Contract and supplier management - You will be able to effectively drive our strategic partners to support the delivery of our HSE objectives.

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.