DIO Health & Safety Manager
| Posting date: | 03 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £59,690 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2025 |
| Location: | WS14 9TQ, PE28 2EA, DL9 3JF, SP4 8QT, SG11 1DE |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 422850 |
Summary
Line Management and Team Leadership: Directly line manages the Health and Safety Advisor supporting their professional development and performance. Establishes team priorities, objectives, and workload plans aligned to strategic goals. Act as the escalation point to Health and Safety Advisors and Officers. Undertake regular one-to-ones, and training needs analysis for H&S and other safety critical roles within Accommodation.
Strategic & Policy Leadership: Lead on the development, implementation and review of health and safety policies and procedures tailored to the accommodation function. Ensure all H&S systems and processes align with statutory requirements, DIO Safety management System, MOD policy and Standards (e.g. JSP 375/ 815) and best practice. Act as Accommodations competent person and subject matter expert for housing related health and safety risks.
Compliance, Assurance & Monitoring: Oversee compliance with key housing related safety risks, including asbestos, fire safety, legionella, gas, damp and mould, electrical safety reflecting the risk profile and priorities. Conduct and manage inspections, audits, and assurance activities across accommodation estates. Monitor contractor and internal performance through KPIs, SLAs and audit results, taking corrective actions as necessary.
Risk & Incident Management: Lead investigations into serious incidents and near-misses, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions are implemented. Provide relevant reports. Establish and maintain an Accommodation H&S risk profile (risk register) and H&S improvement plan for the accommodation estate. Support business continuity and emergency planning from a health and safety perspective.
Stakeholder & Supplier Engagement: Work collaboratively with industry partners, contractors, internal departments, and regulators to ensure safe service delivery and continuous improvement in H&S. Provide expert H&S input into supplier governance, contract management, and service improvement planning. Represent the health safety function at regional and national governance boards, working groups, and assurance forums.
Reporting & Governance: Produce regular reports on health and safety performance, trends, and risk for senior leadership and departmental governance. Ensure accurate reporting of incidents, RIDDOR compliance, and appropriate escalation of risks and issues. Contribute to responses to internal audits, regulatory inspections, and parliamentary enquiries.
Training & Culture: Promote a strong safety culture by developing and delivering a training, awareness campaigns and H&S communications. Ensure staff and contractors are aware of their roles and responsibilities under H&S legislation and internal policy. Establish the development of a H&S competence framework across the team and wider business to improve the H&S knowledge and skills throughout Accommodation and its stakeholders.
A full UK driving licence will be required as the Region is geographically dispersed, and the successful candidate will be site based with a requirement to travel to different locations to fulfil occasional national travel. Noting Public Transport is not available to many of our locations.
Strategic & Policy Leadership: Lead on the development, implementation and review of health and safety policies and procedures tailored to the accommodation function. Ensure all H&S systems and processes align with statutory requirements, DIO Safety management System, MOD policy and Standards (e.g. JSP 375/ 815) and best practice. Act as Accommodations competent person and subject matter expert for housing related health and safety risks.
Compliance, Assurance & Monitoring: Oversee compliance with key housing related safety risks, including asbestos, fire safety, legionella, gas, damp and mould, electrical safety reflecting the risk profile and priorities. Conduct and manage inspections, audits, and assurance activities across accommodation estates. Monitor contractor and internal performance through KPIs, SLAs and audit results, taking corrective actions as necessary.
Risk & Incident Management: Lead investigations into serious incidents and near-misses, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective actions are implemented. Provide relevant reports. Establish and maintain an Accommodation H&S risk profile (risk register) and H&S improvement plan for the accommodation estate. Support business continuity and emergency planning from a health and safety perspective.
Stakeholder & Supplier Engagement: Work collaboratively with industry partners, contractors, internal departments, and regulators to ensure safe service delivery and continuous improvement in H&S. Provide expert H&S input into supplier governance, contract management, and service improvement planning. Represent the health safety function at regional and national governance boards, working groups, and assurance forums.
Reporting & Governance: Produce regular reports on health and safety performance, trends, and risk for senior leadership and departmental governance. Ensure accurate reporting of incidents, RIDDOR compliance, and appropriate escalation of risks and issues. Contribute to responses to internal audits, regulatory inspections, and parliamentary enquiries.
Training & Culture: Promote a strong safety culture by developing and delivering a training, awareness campaigns and H&S communications. Ensure staff and contractors are aware of their roles and responsibilities under H&S legislation and internal policy. Establish the development of a H&S competence framework across the team and wider business to improve the H&S knowledge and skills throughout Accommodation and its stakeholders.
A full UK driving licence will be required as the Region is geographically dispersed, and the successful candidate will be site based with a requirement to travel to different locations to fulfil occasional national travel. Noting Public Transport is not available to many of our locations.