Health Safety & Environment Officer

Are you driven by the challenge of promoting a culture of safety and environmental responsibility, and ready to play a key role in shaping the future of bus franchising in Greater Manchester?

Your Role

As Health, Safety & Environment Officer (Bus Franchising) you will ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards for Transport for Greater Manchester’s bus franchising initiatives. Your role involves developing and implementing IMS processes, conducting audits, managing risk assessments, and advising on legal and regulatory changes. You will collaborate with bus operators and internal teams to maintain a strong safety culture, addresses non-compliance issues, and leads incident investigations. Essential qualifications include a NEBOSH General Certificate and significant HSE experience. Your role is key to enhancing safety and sustainability in Greater Manchester’s public transport network.

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

The Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) team within Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is responsible for ensuring the organization’s compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards across all operations and projects. The team, which includes roles such as HSE Managers, Officers, and Coordinators, works to develop and implement safety policies, conduct audits, and manage risk assessments. The HSE team reports to senior leadership, through the Chief Networking Officer, ensuring that safety and environmental considerations are integrated into TfGM’s strategic planning and daily operations.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

A NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent qualification is essential, alongside continuous professional development in safety law and techniques. The ideal candidate for the Health, Safety & Environment Officer role you should have significant experience in a health, safety, and environment (HSE) position, preferably within a transportation or infrastructure environment. You must demonstrate expertise in developing and implementing safety management systems, conducting audits, and managing risk assessments. Experience in engaging and influencing stakeholders at various levels is essential, along with a proven track record of ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent role and offers a competitive salary of between £40,650 – £45,107 per annum depending on skills and experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What’s next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

Priority Recruitment Scheme for ‘At Risk’ NHS GM Colleagues
If you are currently employed by a Greater Manchester NHS organisation and have been formally identified as ‘at risk’, please indicate this within your application for the role. If you select ‘Yes’ and provide evidence that your experience meets the essential criteria described in the job advert and role profile, you will be guaranteed progression to the next assessment stage. Please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet these essential requirements, as the guarantee only applies to candidates who meet them.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK – if in doubt please visit the following link Employers’ right to work checklist – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.