Health & Safety Manager

Key Information

Role: Health & Safety Manager

Salary: £55,596 to £65,966 per annum

Location: York, Leeds or Manchester

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Office Requirement: Hybrid, with a minimum of 3 times a week in the office or site(s)

Recruitment process: Our recruitment process includes an initial sift of applications, followed by a face-to-face, competency-based interview. Depending on the number of suitable candidates, a second sift may involve submitting video responses to motivational and technical questions

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employees will be entitled to a discretionary 75% discount off leisure travel this includes off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to 75% discount on season tickets.

Join Our Team!

Are you ready to make a difference in people’s lives? We connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We’re an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process – We’re an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don’t always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we’ll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.

We’re also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

Join the TRU Programme team as a Health & Safety Manager, where you’ll lead functional audits across the programme, drive proactive risk reduction strategies, and champion safety excellence. You’ll be the key link between Alliance and central teams, steering critical safety communications, inspections, and meetings. This role is hands-on, working closely with delivery teams to embed practical safety improvements, investigate incidents, and ensure lessons learned are shared and actioned.

Ideal Candidate:

We are seeking a proactive, knowledgeable, and people-focused Health & Safety Manager to join our TRU Programme. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in auditing, with proven experience in conducting functional audits and driving risk reduction across complex infrastructure projects.

You’ll be a champion of positive safety culture—leading by example and influencing stakeholders at all levels. A solid understanding of health and safety legislation and best practice is essential, ideally gained within the rail, construction, or infrastructure sectors.

A key strength will be your ability to assess risk, manage compliance, and deliver continuous improvement in safety performance. You’ll also be confident in using digital systems to produce clear, professional reports that support executive-level decision-making. Your ability to generate accurate, well-structured insights and articulate findings in a clear and accessible format will be vital to the role.

We are committed to supporting your professional development. You will have access to structured training, mentoring, and continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities. We also provide a supportive environment where innovation and new ideas are encouraged, and where your contribution will play a vital role in helping us achieve our vision of ‘Everyone Home Safe Every Day’.

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

1. Provide functional support, guidance, and professional expertise to the project teams on all health and safety matters affecting the portfolio of projects so as to deliver successful execution of the programme or works.

2. Work directly with the project teams providing health and safety direction by leading the HSEA specialist aligned to the team. (Where applicable)

3. Lead/Direct periodic meetings with the contracting organisations to share and promulgate best practice and lessons learnt.

4. Provide support to the project teams on inspection and monitoring of the safety and environmental performance of projects and monitor so that a consistent approach is taken to contractor occupational and construction safety across all projects within the portfolio.

5. Work with project teams to determine practical and deliverable measures to improve health & safety performance within projects.

6. Support the project teams in the investigation of accidents and incidents and in the implementation of resulting recommendations.

7. Provide the single point of contact for the project portfolio with HMRI and other health and safety organisations for day-to-day site health and safety.

8. Co-ordinate the health & safety activities of the programme and maintain effective liaison with other IP Regions, Programmes and Major Projects and aligned routes.

We need you to have:

• Must be a member of the Institute of Occupational Health and safety (IOSH) at Certified (CertIOSH) level or above

• Significant experience in the successful management of HSEA issues on major programmes of work in the construction and/or rail industries.

• Project Safety Management course.

It would be advantageous if you have:

• A NEBOSH Diploma and/or IEMA Certificate.

• Lead Auditor

• Proven experience as a Health and Safety and/or Environment practitioner.

• Familiarity with our systems and processes.

• A good working knowledge of rules, regulations, and standards applicable to contractor safety.

• Strong IT skills, including experience with electronic inspection systems.

• Demonstrable audit and assurance capability.

• Comprehensive knowledge of CDM regulations with a proven background in their application.