Health, Safety and Compliance Manager

PASSIONATE ABOUT HERITAGE RAILWAYS

Swanage Railway is an award-winning heritage railway carrying 200,000 passengers a year making it one of the leading tourist attractions in Dorset.

You will be working in a team of people who are passionate about restoring and maintaining our fleet of heritage steam and diesel locomotives, carriages, and wagons to operate our services.

The role

As a Health & Safety and Compliance Manager you will play the important role of leading, with the Board, the delivery of safety and compliance objectives as determined and set by the Board; 

You will play a lead part in collaboratively developing safety management strategies for the Swanage Railway;

To lead on i) the documentation of and maintenance of a Safety Management System (SMS) ii) the promulgation across all staff of their responsibilities under the SMS, and iii) audit compliance with the SMS; 

To ensure all the Swanage Railway’s activities comply with statutory health & safety, environmental and other responsibilities by developing procedures, promulgating and supporting their use and auditing compliance; 

To liaise with external bodies such as ORR, RSSB, Network Rail, Train Operating Companies and other safety and statutory stakeholders as directed; 

To co-ordinate the completion of routine rail operating certificate submissions to ORR and other stakeholders; and To lead and direct the work of the Health & Safety and Compliance team.

Essential skills

• Chartered membership of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health.
• Extensive experience of Health and Safety management within the rail industry or an equivalent regulated working environment, and a good understanding of machine shop equipment operation, material handling, crane/fork- lift operations.   A knowledge of the individual components of the 1992 H&S at Work Regs – a knowledge of risk assessments, COSHH, manual handling of loads, display screen equipment, CDM, PPE, working at height, lifting equipment, PAT testing etc. and how they are applied across Company activities.
• Ability to think on a strategic and delivery level. Proactive participative approach to problem solving.
• Computer competencies to agreed standards: word processing, spreadsheets, mailing as a minimum.
• Ability to work under pressure and to manage conflicting demands.

Desirable Skills

• Leadership and staff management and championing change
• Route cause analysis
• Work with volunteers 
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent with a minimum of 3 subjects, including Maths and English.

Benefits of working for Swanage Railway

• Salary TBA subject to experience up to 40 hour week (Must be willing, to work flexible hours and days)
• 30 days holiday including statutory bank holidays pro rata
• Contributory pension scheme following probationary period
• Free or subsidised refreshments when working
• National Rail Privilege travel rates following completion of induction period