Are you a personable and knowledgeable health and safety professional? Would you enjoy working for a world-class Museum group?
About us
At the Science Museum Group, we make it our mission to inspire futures. In order for us to keep our Museums accessible and open for all, we are continually committed to the wellbeing and protection of our buildings, collections, employees and visitors through the production and delivery of policies and procedures group wide. One of the key functions who will deliver on this is Health and Safety, and we are now looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to join us on a fixed term contract for 2 years covering two of our museums in the North.
You can be contractually based at either the Science & Industry Museum in Manchester, or the National Science & Media Museum in Bradford.
About the role
In this role, you will advise, support and influence various teams across the Group, with a specific focus on the Museums in Bradford and Manchester site. You will review and monitor H&S incidents and investigations, complete specialist assessments such as noise and DSE assessments, and generally promote awareness and company-wide understanding of health and safety regulations and best-practice. This is a varied role and offers a great opportunity to shape how we approach Health and Safety.
About you
Joining us, you’ll have a recognised qualification in Health and Safety, and knowledge of key regulations, for example around fire safety, safe boiler operations, legionella, and asbestos management, etc. You’ll have experience completing H&S audits, investigations, providing guidance and developing procedures. Working with contractors, internal and external stakeholders, and with visitors, you’ll need to be a strong communicator and relationship builder.
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under ‘Attachments’ on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click ‘Apply Online’ to submit an application.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We know work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer up to 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays; a support with personal and professional development; employee assistance programme; enhanced contributory pension; and enhanced support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness and career breaks.
‘Open for All’ is one of the Science Museum Group’s five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. As a national museum group, we have an ability to reach a wide and diverse population of audiences, colleagues and partners through our geography and scale.
We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation and ultimately will be able to inspire more futures. We therefore welcome applications from those who bring difference.
