Technical Health and Safety Manager

• Technical Health and Safety Manager
• £70,000 to £80,000, Dependant on Experience
• 40 Hours Per Week
• Shifts are Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:30
• Location is Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

We are looking for an exceptional Technical Health and Safety Manager to provide expert leadership across engineering, maintenance, and Hard FM operations at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

This influential role offers the opportunity to work at the heart of a complex healthcare environment, ensuring statutory compliance, strengthening contractor and engineering safety performance, and embedding a culture where safety is everyone's responsibility. If you have extensive experience in Health and Safety, engineering compliance, contractor management, and driving behavioural safety improvement, this is your opportunity to make a real impact on the safety, wellbeing, and resilience of a world class healthcare estate.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and promote a positive Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ) culture across engineering, maintenance, and operational teams, driving continuous improvement and embedding a Zero Harm mindset.

• Provide assurance and oversight of Hard FM statutory compliance programmes, ensuring risks are effectively identified, managed, and controlled within a complex healthcare environment.

• Review, monitor, and strengthen permit to work systems covering high risk activities including hot works, confined spaces, work at height, excavations, and electrical isolation.

• Support and advise engineering teams on the development and implementation of safe systems of work, risk assessments, and operational safety procedures.

• Manage contractor health and safety performance, including pre qualification, onboarding, compliance monitoring, and ongoing assurance of works carried out in live healthcare environments.

• Conduct audits and inspections of engineering, maintenance, and statutory compliance activities, analysing trends, incidents, near misses, and performance data to drive improvements.

• Provide expert technical advice on health, safety, environmental and legislative compliance matters, ensuring alignment with ISO 45001, CDM 2015, and all relevant statutory requirements and codes of practice.

What You Bring:

• Significant Health and Safety management experience gained within Hard FM, engineering, estates, utilities, healthcare engineering, construction, or similarly regulated environments.

• NEBOSH National Diploma Level 6 (or equivalent) in Occupational Health and Safety, with Chartered IOSH Membership (CMIOSH).

• Strong working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015, contractor management, and permit to work systems across high risk activities.

• Proven experience managing statutory compliance risks, including asbestos, legionella, electrical safety, work at height, confined spaces, and lifting operations.

• Demonstrable experience conducting audits, investigations, risk assessments, and compliance reviews, with a strong understanding of relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.

• Experience working within NHS estates, healthcare, PFI, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of healthcare engineering standards and compliance frameworks being highly desirable.

• Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, build effective relationships, and produce high quality reports and presentations.

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. You’ll belong in a company and team that values you for you; you’ll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you’ll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

Ready to be part of something greater? Apply today! Career progression for the caring profession.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advertisement early if we are in receipt of a high volume of applications.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

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