Job Description

Safety Manager
Acquisition Safety & Environment
Initial 12 Month Contract
Up to 590pd inside IR35
Bristol Abbey Wood - Hybrid (3days on site)

Our large government defence client is currently looking to add a Safety and Environmental Manager to their team with experience in delivery OME safety and environmental artefacts.

Specialisms Required

• Defence Safety Management and Environmental Protection Planning.
• Ordnance, Munitions & Explosives (OME) Safety Management.
• Defence Regulations. (DOSR)
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 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 can brief up and down.
• The Safety Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day activity, delivering against agreed activity and tasks.

Essential Skills

• Working within the DE&S ITS-SED ASEP resource augmentation team, deployed within the Weapons Domain.
• Practitioner level experience of DE&S safety management systems and processes (POSMS).
• Experience required in compiling safety case evidence, authoring safety case reports and hazard logs.
• Experienced in OME Safety
• Practitioner level experience of:
  • Safety and Environmental Management Plans.
  • Safety Case / A Safety Case Report.
  • Hazard Logs
  • Hazard identification and assessment.
  • Operation of safety review meetings.

Desirable Skills

• eCassandra.
• Working with WOC
• Fault and Event Tree (FTA / ETA).
• BowTie assessment.
• Safety arguments (CAE / GSN).
• Knowledge of applicable legislation, regulation and standards and defence policy.
• ASPIRE.
• ASSERT.