Stay Safe Business Partner - South Region

Safety Business Partner -  Covering the South Region - Plumbing and Heating Division.

Travis Perkins are currently recruiting for a Safety Business Partner within our Plumbing and Heating Division.  It’s an exciting time to be joining the division as we embark on a 3 year transformation journey to create a stronger, efficient and more profitable business. Our strategy focuses on nurturing what already makes us great, while building plans to differentiate our customer offer and continuing to develop expertise, range and delivering a great service to make it easier for customers to do business with us. We want to continue to build a strong culture of winning where customers love to shop and where our people love to work.  

We are looking for an ambitious Safety Business Partner, supporting regional and local leaders in the ownership, leadership and delivery of their Stay Safe strategies as part of their five year business plan to improve safety, health and wellbeing across the division. Developing clear understanding of the safety issues for workplaces and be continually developing local leadership’s skills, knowledge and understanding. Influence to support change and to build and maintain a consistent safety culture across the division.

Working with divisional director to develop the safety strategy and annual delivery plan, guiding and coaching regional directors and operational managers in all aspects of safety leadership, performance and business operations including incident investigation, risk management, managing preventative and corrective actions and employee engagement.

Principle Accountabilities:

● Work with the Divisional Stay Safe Director to develop the divisional Stay Safe strategy and associated annual delivery plan.
● Guide and coach Directors and Managers in all aspect of safety leadership and performance, including:

○ Integration of safety into business operations
○ Leadership behaviours
○ Incident Investigation
○ Risk Management
○ Managing preventative and corrective actions
○ Stay Safe Committees and forums

● Deliver a variety of Stay Safe related training in accordance with the divisional delivery plan.
● Deliver Stay Safe Audits of branches along with appropriate post audit support and coaching, in accordance with the annual plan.
● Use a variety of performance measures to identify trends and improve safety, health and wellbeing performance, sharing best practice and celebrating success across the division.
● Act as a visible leader for the principles of Stay Safe. Through personal leadership style set the right tone at the top and establish an open culture encouraging a high level of communication and colleague participation both internally and externally on Stay Safe issues.

It would be great if you had…

• You will hold a Higher level safety qualification Degree or MSc

• Hold  a NEBOSH Certificate or CMIOSH or equivalent

• Previous experience in a Safety Advisory Role

• Hold Excellent Communication skills

• Time Management: Ability to work effectively independently

• Able to present to BMs & RD level

• IT skills (word, excel, powerpoint etc)

• Legal & Technical understanding of Health & Safety

• Goal focused

• Ability to influence at branch level

• Be Engaging  and passionate

What can we offer you?

You may not know much about Travis Perkins plc but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised. We are the UK leader in the building materials and home improvement markets. Recognised as one of Britain’s Top Employers since 2010, we offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across 20+ leading businesses including Travis Perkins, Wickes, Keyline and City Plumbing Supplies. We operate out of more than 2,000 outlets nationwide (and Ireland) and have over 28,000 colleagues.

Our strong family values and 'cornerstones' lie at the heart of the success of our journey. If, like us, you put customers at heart of everything you do, then we’d love to hear from you.

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