As a Hazardous Environments Specialist at BT Group in Manchester (New Bailey), you will play a key role in managing health, safety, and environmental risks related to asbestos, legionella, lead, and radon across the UK property estate. This role involves providing specialist technical advice, supporting high-risk HSE programmes, and ensuring legal compliance.
Requirements
Practical knowledge and experience of asbestos management within buildings or workplace environments.
Relevant asbestos training or qualifications, such as BOHS P402, P404, or P405, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience working within HSE in a complex or multi-site environment.
Ability to provide clear technical guidance and assess risk effectively.
Desirable: Knowledge of Legionella, radon, and lead, plus additional professional memberships or training such as IOSH.
Skills & Responsibilities
Asbestos Management: Identify, assess, and manage asbestos-related risks across the property estate while maintaining accurate records in AlphaTracker.
Data Analysis: Analyse management information and performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
Technical Advising: Provide specialist technical and risk advice across workplace operations and the wider business.
Potential transition routes: People from environmental health, facilities management, or general health and safety roles may bring strong risk assessment and compliance skills, alongside meeting mandatory HSE requirements.
Job description
Job Req ID: 64472
About the role
As a Hazardous Environments Specialist, you’ll help maintain high standards of health, safety and environmental management across our diverse UK property estate. You’ll play a key role in managing risks associated with hazardous environments and substances, including asbestos, legionella, lead and radon.
You’ll provide specialist technical advice, support the delivery of high-risk HSE programmes and help ensure we meet our legal and moral responsibilities. Working with internal teams, external stakeholders and strategic partners, you’ll monitor performance, manage incidents and identify opportunities to continually improve how hazardous environment risks are managed.
What you’ll be doing
Translate hazardous environments policies into effective onsite solutions covering asbestos, legionella, lead, radon and other hazardous substances.
Manage hazardous substance incidents, ensuring appropriate action, investigation and escalation.
Maintain hazardous substance management systems, including AlphaTracker, ensuring records remain accurate and up to date.
Provide specialist technical and risk advice across the property estate, workplace operations and wider business.
Monitor performance indicators, audit actions and compliance requirements, escalating weaknesses or failures when required.
Analyse management information and performance data to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities.
Maintain relevant policies, procedures, databases and processes in line with statutory and business requirements.
Support audits, investigations and high-risk HSE programmes, working with internal teams, external stakeholders and outsourced suppliers.
Essential Skills / Experience
Practical knowledge and experience of asbestos management, including identifying, assessing and managing asbestos-related risks within buildings or workplace environments.
Relevant asbestos training or qualifications, such as BOHS P402, P404 or P405, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience working within HSE in a complex or multi-site environment, with an understanding of relevant legislation, policies and compliance requirements.
Ability to provide clear technical guidance, assess risk and communicate HSE information effectively with different audiences.
Desirable Skills / Experience
Knowledge or experience of other hazardous environment risks, including Legionella, radon and lead.
Competitive with great benefits and a 10% on-target annual bonus
Experience supporting the development and implementation of practical hazardous environment solutions.
Experience supporting hazardous substance incidents, investigations, audits or assurance activities.
Ability to use data and management information to monitor performance, identify trends and support decision-making.
Experience collaborating with internal teams, suppliers and other stakeholders to deliver HSE activities.
Additional relevant training, qualifications or professional membership in areas such as occupational hygiene, water management, IOSH or radon management.
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.
