Laboratory/Workplace – Manager – Safety Level 4 – Chemistry – Salisbury – £37,700 – £43,800K PA

Salisbury, Wiltshire
Curo Services

Laboratory/Workplace – Manager – Safety Level 4 – Chemistry – Salisbury – £37,700 – £43,800K PA – Exceptional Benefits!

Reference: RL7718
Location: Salisbury/Wiltshire
Salary: £37,700 – £43,800
Benefits: Exceptional Pension (26 – 30% Employer Contributions), Bonus, Learning & Development support, 25 days holiday (rising to 30), subsidised gym, discounts with retailers, rental deposit support, option to buy & sell holiday.

The Client: Curo are partnering with an organisation, whose talented scientists and technologists have built an enviable reputation for innovating world class science and technology. They are known for bringing together people and a huge range of disciplines in science and technology. There is a wealth of variety in their projects, and they benefit from state of the art technology, in their well-equipped labs.

The Candidate: This role would suit a candidate with a relevant Chemistry/Life Science degree, HND or equivalent. Additionally experience within the workplace of managing health safety and environmental aspects within high-containment ACDP levels 3 or 4.

Please Note: Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance.

The Role: This role carries delegated authority to manage work activities in a designated work area safely, securely, sustainably, and resiliently at all times for all users, contractors and visitors. The Workplace Manager (WPM) role provides the key interface between the setting of work requirements and the implementation into a facility or work area. You will establish effective relationships with the Facilities Management (FM) provider, subcontractors and the scientists performing the research in your labs.
A work area may be an office, laboratory, workshop, storage area, building, iso-container, range (or part of a range), magazine, animal area or facility as deemed appropriate.
This role will be based in the Chemistry containment level 4 laboratories and associated facilities where the organisation carries out critical research to understand and protect against highly hazardous materials.
You will have suitable qualifications and experience, but we will also be given extensive training.

Duties:

• Be responsible for ensuring your allocated chemistry laboratories and associated facilities are safe to operate. In addition, they are in accordance with the policies, procedures and applicable legislative and regulatory requirements. This applies to equipment within your workplaces and the workplaces themselves.
• Planning and allocation of laboratory studies, making sure they are safe and fit for purpose. You will ensure that they are maintained to regulatory standards to maintain a safe system of work H&S Roles – Responsibilities and Accountabilities.
• Implement existing and develop new safe systems of work associated with the research being done in your workplaces (eg risk assessments, standard operating processes, regulatory compliance assurance) and ensure your workplaces comply with these.
• Ensure equipment is safe and fit for purpose and are maintained to regulatory standards to maintain a safe system of work.
• Ensure hazards and risks arising from the activities are as low as reasonably practical.
• Assure that users are competent to work.
• Verify with the user that the planned work can be completed within the defined operating envelope for the facility.
• Agree any proposed changes to the planned activities within the workplace consulting with the Facilities Manager (FM) first if the proposed changes exceed the agreed defined operating envelope and keep the FM informed of the hazard profile of the work place.
• Cease work within your workplace should you have safety concerns and raise these concerns swiftly and appropriately in compliance with the emergency procedures.
• Be point of contact for the facility management team, keeping them informed of any issues and agreeing actions.
• Ensure statutory and internal inspections are completed at specified intervals and any identified defects are addressed in a timely manner.
• Be point of contact and oversee some maintenance contracts; ensuring that contractors are booked to attend on specified dates to fit facility shutdowns.
• Be point of contact within the Workplace for Health, Safety, Environmental and Security issues, taking an active role during regulatory inspections.
• Ensure the safety of all users, visitors, and contractors, including but not limited to agreeing and implementing any necessary access controls, including appropriate authority to work as set out in the Management System.
• Ensure a local safety and security briefing is provided to all users, visitors, and contractors prior to granting access, ensure all workplace users have read and understood any relevant safe systems of work and accept their obligations for working safely and securely.
• Be point of contact for advice out of hours and support out of hours emergency on-call cover as required (subject to additional payment)
• Work overtime out of hours and weekends occasionally (if required and subject to additional payments and allowances)
• Work alongside and collaborate with other area Workplace Managers and Facilities Managers and ensure cover for the area is constantly maintained.
• Comply with the organisations Resilience and Emergency Planning processes including contributing to the development of local Emergency plans, informing the FM of any building business critical systems and safety related systems within the work place.
• Liaise with Waste Supervisors to ensure all waste is stored and disposed of in a safe and environmentally responsible manner and that disposal to drains authorisations are not exceeded.

Essential Requirements:

• Relevant Qualification (eg Chemistry/Life Science degree, HND etc) or equivalent experience within the workplace.
• Extensive experience of managing health safety and environmental aspects within high-containment ACDP levels 3 or 4.
• Leadership skills to manage a workplace. Ability to develop and implement of a safe system of work for allocated area.
• Ability to critically assess safety aspects of work activities within workplace, the suitability of work equipment for use in the specific facility or activity and allocation of appropriate facilities for work activities.
• Ability to identify critical assets and determine required planned preventative maintenance.
• Effective communication to identify hazards and control measures to users.
• Ability to lead Health & Safety inspections and audit allocated areas.
• Ability to manage visitor and contractor safety.
• Ability to enact emergency plans.
• Ability to manage the operations within a designated work area, inside the parameters defined by the Facilities Manager (FM)
• Ability to manage the hazards and risks arising from the activities undertaken to ensure compliance with policy, relevant legislative and regulatory requirements – through validating and implementing suitable Safety Risk Assessments (SRAs) with delivery teams.
• Ability to impart technical expertise so that we may continuously improve how the organisation operates.
• Ability to keep the FM informed of the hazards in the workplace and any changes to the hazard profile as a result of operations and activities.
• Ability to assure compliance of all non-fixed assets imported into the workplace and to ensure they remain fit for purpose.
• Ability to act as the point of contact for activities within the workplace for Health, Safety, Environmental and Security issues.
• Ability to effectively engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
• The ambition and drive to be part of a team responsible for defending the UK against some of the most hazardous materials.
• Willing to undertake relevant safety qualification (NEBOSH/IOSH)
• Ability and willingness to complete the Learning Journey for Workplace Managers
• Ability and willingness to complete all other relevant training

Chemistry work areas:

• Experience of managing health, safety, and environment aspects within a work area.
• Experience of hazard management, risk assessment and risk management
• Experience of providing advice on Health, Safety and Environmental matters
• Relevant experience of working in an environment with health, safety, or environmental hazards

Desirable Requirements:

• Ability to plan and execute Emergency exercises.
• Domain specific experience as appropriate eg working in a high hazard laboratory,
• Experience of managing health & safety including meeting regulatory and legislative requirements.
• Experience of managing contractors.
• Experience of managing the work of others.
• Experience of asset management
• Microsoft Office tools experience
• IOSH Technical Membership.

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