Business Health Safety & Environmental Manager

Job Req ID: 32698

Posting Date: 7 May 2024

Function: Corporate and Regulatory Affairs

Unit: Business

Location:

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Salary: Competitive

TITLE: Business Health Safety & Environmental Manager

Location: São Paulo an Americas Region

Flexible Working / Hybrid - Office and Remote combination

Why BT Business

With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.

We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.

We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.

As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.

About the role

We have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the health and safety of our people, and to ensure our activities have the minimum impact to the environment we live in.

Our executives and managers have a responsibility to deliver BT’s duty of care and need access to the competent advice and guidance that the role holder provides to enable them to deliver that.

Being up to date with the external legislative and regulatory environment enables us to ensure legal compliance which will enhance BT’s performance.

You’ll have the following responsibilities.

• The role holder leads on business activities that ensure BT, Business and 3rd party suppliers comply with all requirements to assure Business of its health, safety and environmental risk

• You will drive improvements to safety & environmental standards within the contract organisations through benchmarking other industries, interpreting new legislation and seeking out new products on the market.

• You may author, own and approve nominated mandatory BT or Business, Environmental, Health and Safety policies e.g. Clerk of Working, Construction Design Management 2015 , Contractor Rules -controlled in ISIS library . Interpreting external legal frameworks in their requirements.

• You may author, own and approver pan BT, Business or CFU specific risk assessments in line with external legal standards.

• You may author, own, commission & deliver specialist Safety training content in line with external legal frameworks and business requirements – e.g Work at Height, Flat Roof, Vertical Ladder, Managers H&S training, Spills. Safety check training for managers

• You will carry out contractor Health, Safety & Environmental assessments during Invitation to Tender, with professional advice to client and procurements teams contributing to procurement decisions.

• You will carry out regular review of Contractors Health, Safety and Environmental management systems to ensure standards are met.

• You will induct contract organisations and people in line with BT H&S policy and contribute to procurement decisions.

• You will contribute to contractor operational review meetings with regard to EHS items – service improvement.

• You may represent BT as an H&S professional at magistrate or crown court.

You’ll have the following skills and experience

It is a must:

• NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety (or equivalent)

• NEBOSH International in Occupational Health & Safety

• English and Spanish in an advanced level

• 5 Year of experience in relevant field

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field is a must.

• Practical experience of managing occupational health & safety

• Proven record of managing contractors

Preferred:

• NEBOSH Or equivalent international standard

• NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent

• NEBOSH Environmental or equivalent

• NEBOSH Construction or equivalent

Benefits

BT offers a superior global and diverse culture that fosters health and wellness for their employees.

• Competitive salary and on-target bonus plan

• Training and development opportunities

• Career progression in BT Security and across BT with our internal development programme

• Annual leave as per the local country leave agreement.

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BT values and supports diversity in all its manifestations. We want our workforce to fully represent the communities and customers we serve, because a diverse business is a better business. We value every colleague, their diversity, and the contribution they make. We do not allow any form of discrimination on the basis of race, age, gender, skin color, nationality, religion, sexual preference, physical or mental disability, and/or any other group protected by law. When we say you’re welcome at BT, we really mean it.

Who is BT Group

We're the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer's digital transformations so they can thrive. Our focus is simple: be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services.

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Why this job matters

The Health, Safety & Environment Manager manages teams in technical, strategic, and administrative activities of the HSE function, ensuring regulatory HSE compliance, development of HSE systems, processes and programmes, enabling operational excellence and safeguarding employees and communities.

What you’ll be doing

1. Manages teams in the implementation of the global HSE policies, its mission and vision set, aligning with the wider global strategy.

2. Manages teams in maintaining and implementing local operating procedures that meet the requirements of both the Group's HSE Integrated Management System and local laws.

3. Manages assigned initiatives contributing to the implementation a HSE continuous improvement plan and operational compliance programme.

4. Manages teams in fulfilling the HSE function's reporting capabilities leading the development of management information reports for the global Risk, Business Assurance and Compliance management team expectations.

5. Manages teams and activities that ensure Group stakeholders adhere to robust processes that exceed the minimum legal HSE compliance requirements within the operating countries it is present in and establishes and embeds a HSE assurance programme to monitor legal compliance.

6. Facilitates working partnerships and peer to peer relationships both within the function and across operations and wider stakeholders, to facilitate the achievement of objectives whilst promoting the best working practice and consistently high standards of HSE.

7. Coordinates the necessary relationships with third parties, including enforcement agencies and audit bodies, clients and customers to reduce risk and continually improve the Group's HSE reputation.

8. Coordinates activities that ensure all Group and Group supplier locations are risk profiled and that the risk profiling drives the HSE compliance monitoring and assurance programme.

9. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in HSE.

10. Coaches talent, and manages others, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.

11. Implements ways to improve working processes within HSE.

The skills you’ll need

Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Management

Behavioural Safety

Communication

Root Cause Analysis

Continuous Improvement

Health & Safety

Change Management

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Strategy

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Business Process Improvement

Project/Programme Management

Policy Design

Incident Management

Talent Management

Decision Making

Growth Mindset

Standards Design

Performance Management

Inclusive Leadership

Our leadership standards

Looking in:

Leading inclusively and Safely

I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes

I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:

Delivering for the customer

I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy

I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:

Growth mindset

I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future

I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.