HSE Business Partner

Job Title: HSE Business Partner

Working Pattern: Full Time

Working location: UK – located at Barnoldswick Site Compression Systems MBU

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Rolls-Royce for a HSE Business Partner to join our team at Barnoldswick.

The HSE Business Partner will Lead the HS&E locally in support of the Business priorities based on a sound understanding of the local HS&E performance and risk profile.

They will coach managers in effective HS&E leadership and implementation.

They will be the principal HS&E point of contact for your assigned responsibilities and accountabilities and will deliver on agreed improvement plans and be proactive in seeking out emerging issues.

They will Identify and promote good practice and work collaboratively with Business HS&E and the wider HS&E function, to build a sense of team, and alignment to Business and functional strategies.

Why Rolls-Royce? 

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.  

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.  

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.  

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference. 

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:

Risk Management

• Maintain good risk management, including up to date local risk profiles, to keep management informed and drive prioritised improvement actions.  Identify common issues to incorporate in business-based improvement programmes.  Ensure HSE critical controls are identified, managed (including through appropriate maintenance programmes) and effectively assured.

• Leadership and Culture
• Set expectations and lead by example on the Journey to Zero Harm. Lead improvements to functional or business HSE maturity by proposing and implementing changes. Represent the business on functional initiatives and lead changes, including on business initiatives.  Engage beyond your sites on initiatives to optimise the programme. 

• Learning from Incident Investigation
• Respond to incidents and maintain communications on the situation as needed. Coach Managers to undertake and complete investigations.  Further, analyse incident data to identify and understand trends and to propose improvements actions which can be implemented across the sites.  Support the sharing of incident learnings and apply learnings from elsewhere in a prioritised way.  Monitor and communicate action closure status arising from incidents at site level.

Assurance

• Develop the local risk-based assurance programme, consistent with the Business programme, including compliance with legal and other requirements.  Monitor progress and support site senior leaders to deliver their lower tier assurance plans.  Interpret, communicate and drive action on trends and insights.  Use assurance findings to improve risk management.

• Stakeholder engagement and communication
• Building on the Business arrangements; identify, prioritise, agree with senior management and implement engagement plans with HS&E stakeholders.  Use good communications practices to support improvement and change. Maintain good relations with Regulators. Work with the Senior HS & E Business Partner(s) to ensure standards and improvements are implemented as necessary.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. To be successful in this role you will need to have:

• Must hold a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent)
• Qualified member of an appropriate HSE professional body such as IOSH with evidence of continual professional development (CPD)
• Demonstrated experience in influencing managers and taking a stand when the situation demands it.
• Strong leadership qualities
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience of working in cross functional teams

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. 

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background. 

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce 

Grade/Level: C

For further information please contact: Louise Shorthouse