HSE Assurance Manager

This is a field-based role with regular UK-wide travel, typically spending around three days a week on site or with stakeholders and two days working from home or an office, with occasional overnight stays as required.

About the role

Working towards a safer, more sustainable BT Networks

Are you passionate about health, safety, environmental performance and operational assurance? Do you enjoy influencing positive change, working with senior stakeholders and helping teams deliver their best safely and compliantly?

We're looking for an experienced HSE and Assurance Manager to join our high-performing, multi-award-winning Health, Safety and Environment team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting BT Networks, providing expert assurance, governance and HSE leadership across one of the UK's largest and most critical infrastructure organisations.

As an HSE and Assurance Manager, you will provide professional health, safety, environmental and assurance support across BT Networks. Working closely with operational teams, engineers, managers and senior leaders, and contractors you will help ensure legal compliance, drive continuous improvement and support the delivery of strategic business objectives.

What we do

In BT Networks we design, build and run the best mobile and the best broadband networks for people at home and at work. The BT telecoms infrastructure across the UK is managed by BT Networks. Telephone exchanges, the EE mobile network, sub-sea and drone capability, Tech research plus the BT ERT (emergency response team) and the Field Engineering teams all sit within Networks. We also work with a large number of 3rd party M & E contractors to deliver our work in cooling, power and infrastructure projects throughout the UK.

What you’ll be doing

The Health, Safety & Environment Manager manages teams in technical, strategic, and administrative activities of the HSE function, ensuring regulatory HSE compliance, development of HSE systems, processes and programmes, enabling operational excellence and safeguarding employees and communities.

• Leads the implementation of BT HSE policies and BT Group behaviours through matrix teams and stakeholder networks, ensuring alignment with the wider business strategy.
• Coordinates the maintenance and implementation of local operating procedures with operational teams and stakeholders to meet the requirements of both the Group's HSE Integrated Management System and applicable legislation.
• Manages assigned initiatives contributing to the implementation a HSE continuous improvement plan and operational compliance programme.
• Provides leadership for the HSE function's reporting capability, working across matrix teams to develop management information and reporting that supports the Networks Risk, Business Assurance and Compliance management team expectations.
• Leads stakeholder activities that ensure Group stakeholders adhere to robust processes that exceed the minimum legal HSE compliance requirements within the operating countries in which BT operates, and establishes and embeds a HSE assurance programme to monitor legal complianc
• Facilitates working partnerships and peer to peer relationships both within the function and across operations and wider stakeholders, to facilitate the achievement of objectives whilst promoting the best working practice and consistently high standards of HSE.
• Coordinates the necessary relationships with third parties, including Health, safety and Environmental: regulators, enforcement agencies and audit bodies, clients and customers to reduce risk and continually improve the Group’s HSE reputation.
• Coordinates activities that ensure all Group and Group supplier locations are risk profiled and that the risk profiling drives the HSE compliance monitoring and assurance programme.
• Promotes, continuously develops and shares knowledge within the team on emerging trends and changes in HSE.
• Supports and develops colleagues (or through matrix working) to build capability and drive performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
• Conduct impartial Multi ISO Audits and produce reports including findings and consulted corrective actions.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Ability to support, influence and enable positive change
• Solution-focused approach
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage colleagues at all levels.
• Coaching skills – the ability to support, develop and guide others.
• Presentation skills
• Analytical and able to interpret data
• Nebosh National General Certificate (Level 3)
• TechIOSH member or working toward
• ISEP – member (Environment) - or working toward

Desirable Skills / Experience

• NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
• Health, Safety and Environment management experience in the following areas:
• Behavioural Safety Management
• Strategy
• Risk Management
• Quality Management
• Incident Management/ Investigation
• Management Systems
• Strategic Planning
• Communication Management
• Management of contractors
• A good working knowledge/ experience of application of CDM
• Horizon scanning and identifying future requirements for stakeholders
• ISO auditor qualification (14001/45001)

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
• Equalized 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.
Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now

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.