Health, Safety and Sustainability Manager (696440)

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Health and Safety Practitioner to join the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry. This role is ideal for a professional with a passion for delivering sustainable improvements and managing a broad range of risks, ideally in a high-hazard science environment.

FTE: 1.0 (35 hours/week)

Term: Open ended

An experienced Health and Safety Practitioner with an interest in and experience of delivering sustainable improvements, qualified to degree level with relevant safety qualifications, it is expected that you will have both strategic and operational experience of managing a broad range of risk, ideally in a high hazard science environment.

The Health, Safety and Sustainability Manager will help support the implementation of the University’s ambitious safety, wellbeing, and resilience strategy. The role will manage and oversee health and safety within the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry providing competent advice, further developing, and reviewing the occupational health and safety management system and fostering a positive safety culture within the Department. The role will review the Department’s sustainability activities in the context of the University’s strategic approach to this area and develop plans and projects to drive improvements. The postholder will work alongside senior colleagues in the department and across the organisation to put in place processes to safeguard the delivery of university services and critical business functions.

The post requires directing and manage incident investigations, identifying lessons learnt and implementing remedial actions as necessary. You will use a variety of techniques to review, monitor and report on health and safety arrangements to drive compliance, best practice, and continual improvement. Previous experience of health and safety auditing would be an advantage.

Initial interviews have been scheduled for 24/04/2025

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Tell Tuttle, Head of Department, Pure and Applied Chemistry, (tell.tuttle@strath.ac.uk).

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