SHEA Manager (Safety, Health and Environment) at Novus Property Solutions, Stoke-on-Trent

Base: Home based, within commutable distance of our Warrington office or Head Office in Stoke-on-Trent - National coverage to site visits, with occasional overnight stays. Typically working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

​Join our team as a SHEA Manager (known internally as SHEA Business Partner), supporting our Public Services and Commercial division across health and education refurbishment, fast-track hotel fit-outs and major projects nationwide. Novus is driven by our purpose to create a legacy where people can live, work and thrive. You’ll join a committed and ambitious company focused on nurturing and developing our people, with responsibility for developing a SHEA Advisor and building proactive relationships with operational teams, supply chain partners and clients to strengthen our safety and assurance culture.

​This is a hands-on, people-focused role, working with a range of stakeholders to deliver continuous improvement. You’ll carry out safety and assurance inspections on our maintenance and refurbishment projects, support site teams and operational colleagues, and work with senior teams and the Head of SHEA to shape our approach to safety and assurance across the business. National travel and occasional overnight stays will be required to support the team.

​What’s in it for you:

• Attractive salary and benefits package to suit you
• Company car allowance or car via salary sacrifice scheme
• 27 Days Hols & BH – option to buy or sell holidays
• Company pension scheme – up to 7.5%
• We also offer; Discounted Healthcare Scheme, High street & lifestyle discounts including Taste card, a day paid volunteering per year, length of service awards, and many more….

​An outline of your responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of the overall HSE strategy and deliver key projects.
• Work with the Head of SHEA and Head of Operations to develop regional plans aligned with our business and safety objectives.
• Implement SHEA Committee meetings within the business unit to discuss performance.
• Develop and implement safety, health and environmental management systems, policies and procedures, ensuring they remain up to date with legislation and best practice.
• Oversee all activity across the region, escalating non-compliance where required.
• Deliver a minimum of 16 SHE inspections per month across the business, which is where you travel will come in, on the odd occasion, perhaps once or twice a year, but driven by the programme of works for example a site may be down South or Scotland, which will need to be factored in, but you will manage your dairy to suit.
• Liaise with the QA team to ensure subcontractors are verified through the internal PQQ process.
• Assist the Head of SHEA with accident and incident investigations, providing action plans.
• Proactively lead and deliver initiatives to improve our culture.
• Partner with regional management teams to create and implement improvement plans using E20 health and safety system data, developing training programmes to support operations where necessary.
• Ensure all new starters complete the required safety inductions.
• Work collaboratively to ensure mandatory training needs are met.
• Work in partnership with operational teams to create a positive, proactive safety culture, deliver safety campaigns and promote best practice and innovation.

About You

You’ll hold relevant qualifications including NEBOSH (General Construction), Asbestos Awareness and Scaffold Inspection. IOSH membership is desirable, while P405 and environmental qualifications would be advantageous. Experience in the refurbishment sector, a partnership approach to safety and the ability to lead an ambitious team are essential.

You’ll be a confident communicator with strong attention to detail, good IT skills and the ability to adapt to new software. A conscientious, self-starting approach and a focus on getting things right first time for our customers are important. A full UK driving licence is essential.

A little bit about us

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award-winning property maintenance, refurbishment, compliance, and decarbonisation specialist with more than 700 colleagues in 20 locations across Great Britain, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family-owned business with a rich 129-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.  

At Novus Property Solutions we value people, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace that enables our people to bring their full selves to work. We understand for many reasons, that people very rarely meet all the criteria laid out in the job advert, so, we encourage you to apply to the role even if you do not meet all the criteria or hold all the qualifications. You may be just who we are looking for in this, or another role.