Head of Operational Safety - Core Production at Rolls-Royce

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

• Ensure a thorough business wide risk profile is in place. Use the risk profile to focus strategy, investment and general business decision-making.  Develop & implement risk-based programmes of activity based on the risk profile.  Ensure HSE critical controls are identified, managed (including through appropriate maintenance programmes) and effectively assured.  Seek out significant business changes and ensure effective management of change is applied
• Implementing and ensuring compliancee with assigned Nuclear Site Licence Conditions within CP
• Ensure good HSE governance (structure, process and content) is in place across the business, including the HSE Accountability Framework, in partnership with senior leaders. Report on the overall effectiveness of governance and engage with senior leaders to implement any required improvements. Lead on defining the HSE and business agenda items, including improvement progress, and provide subject matter expertise to the meetings. Participate in Functional HSE meetings as identified by the Director, SSLA
• Ensure robust governance in place to review all relevant incidents for effective learning. Coach senior leaders to deliver active involvement in significant investigations and incident reviews. Review where appropriate investigation reports on significant incidents and provide coaching. Ensure effective learnings are shared across the business and learnings from elsewhere are considered to develop robust improvement plan  in the business. Ensure effective action closure arising from incidents is in place
• Lead the understanding of HSE performance to identify improvement actions and initiatives through standard performance reports and the HSE balanced scorecard. Ensure timely reporting of validated data and effective use of the HSE MIS throughout the business
• Develop objectives in response to Group targets based on business HSE performance and other requirements, only building additional KPI’s by exception. Actively participate in Shared Learning reviews, providing strong input and identifying learning appropriate to the business
• Develop a business/function wide risk-based assurance programme, including compliance with legal and other requirements. Monitor progress and support business leaders to deliver their lower tier assurance plans. Interpret, communicate and review action on trends and insights. Use assurance findings to improve risk management
• Define and monitor the overall business resource requirements for HSE critical roles and develop competencies to support. Identify gaps in learning solutions and work with Corporate HSE to address them. Ensure a business wide people development plan is in place and participate group wide functional people development activities

Who we’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference.  These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Typically a degree in HSE and/or professional certifications, or capable of leading a team of competent HSE professionals
• General operational or HSE experience, with proven experience of managing others, including experience of operating globally and managing HSE for major hazard
• Demonstrated experience in influencing senior managers and taking a stand when the situation demands it
• Must have experience of managing Health and Safety within a highly regulated industry