Health and Safety Partner

The Vacancy

Are you an engaging Health & Safety professional who thrives on building partnerships, driving culture change, and embedding strong safety practices? Do you enjoy enabling leaders to own and manage risk confidently while strengthening organisational safety performance? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) as we continue to advance our world-class approach to Health & Safety.

What You’ll Do

Aligned to a defined portfolio of MTC departments and business functions, the Health & Safety Business Partner provides proactive, embedded support – becoming a trusted adviser and champion of best practice. Acting as a true partner to leaders and risk owners, you’ll help them plan, do, check and act on their health and safety risks, ensuring strong ownership, improved cultural maturity, and operational excellence.

You’ll lead risk-based interventions, deliver coaching and governance activities, and play a pivotal role in executing the MTC Safety Plan, rooted in ISO 45001 and a systematic, proportionate approach.

This is a visible, hands-on role where you’ll influence behaviours, develop capability, and help shape a positive, high-performing safety culture across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

As a Health & Safety Business Partner, you will:

• Build trusted relationships with functional leaders and People Partners to deliver tailored Safety Plans aligned to organisational priorities.
• Lead MTC-wide safety improvement initiatives, influencing decision-making and resource allocation.
• Drive visible safety leadership, champion participation, and facilitate engagement across all levels.
• Co-chair functional safety forums and contribute to MTC-wide HSE communications.
• Coach risk owners on RAMS quality to ensure robust, proportionate controls are consistently applied.

Plan, manage and deliver internal assurance activities and support external audits.

Lead or support investigations into high-potential or major incidents, ensuring effective corrective actions.

Champion digital safety systems, document management, and KPI reporting in collaboration with the APEX Coordinator.

Analyse safety data, present insights, and recommend improvements during management reviews.

Provide expertise on contractor management and oversee Permit-to-Work arrangements.

Work closely with estates and security teams on fire safety, emergency preparedness and specialist risk assessments.

Support project-related safety requirements for training, events, and operational activities.

Deliver targeted safety training and toolbox talks, enabling functional leads to conduct local onboarding.

Create engaging safety campaigns, bulletins, and communications to strengthen culture.

Liaise with auditors, regulators, insurance partners, customers, and tenants during site visits.

Provide advice and improvements across specialist areas such as CDM, COSHH, DSEAR, fire safety, radiation, noise, vibration, occupational health, and more.

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong working knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation and its application within a regulated technical environment.
• Desirable experience in areas such as lasers, robotics, radiation, additive manufacturing or NDT.
• Comprehensive understanding of ISO 45001:2018 and audit readiness.
• Practical experience applying HSG65 and proportionate risk controls.
• Competence across contractor control, PTW systems, COSHH, PUWER, DSEAR basics, DSE, vulnerable persons, fire safety and emergency planning.
  
  
  

You’ll

• Be self-motivated, proactive and action-oriented with the ability to drive meaningful improvements.
• Have strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence cultural and behavioural change.

Be Confident in delivering strategic and operational health & safety initiatives across diverse teams.

Have excellent communicator with the ability to influence at all levels – from shop floor to senior leaders.

Be Collaborative, resilient and data-driven, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Foster psychological safety, engagement, and high-performance behaviours within partnered functions.

Be a positive, contributing team member who builds momentum and leads by example.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma (Level 6) in Occupational Health & Safety (or equivalent) – essential
• ISO 45001 Lead Auditor – desirable
• Working towards IOSH membership at GradIOSH (or equivalent)
  
  
  

Interview Process

Once your application is received, our Talent Acquisition team will review it thoroughly. If shortlisted, you will complete a two‑stage interview process

Reference & Security Checks

Due to the nature of our work, employment is subject to satisfactory references and appropriate security clearance checks.

Vetting Checks

Learners’ safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance to all MTC Training employees. All individuals are expected to actively contribute to our culture of safeguarding and vigilance to ensure learning is delivered in the safest environment possible.

Shortlisted candidates are subject to safer recruitment screening, including but not limited to:

• Employment history check,
• Right to work check,
• Identity check,
• Two references,
• Qualification check,
• Industry prohibitions check (applies to programme delivery and assessment roles),
• Public online activity search,
• Enhanced DBS with children’s barred list check.
• The successful applicant will be required to promptly complete training relating to safeguarding and prevent and is expected to undertake ongoing training in relation to children’s safety and wellbeing.
  
  
  

The successful applicant will be expected to maintain our safeguarding culture and contribute to it by supporting the Designated Safeguarding Lead and safeguarding team.

The successful applicant will be required to adhere to our Code of Conduct and share our commitment to the welfare of children.

About The MTC

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) is an internationally renowned and respected research and development organisation, bridging the gap between academia and manufacturing, and is home to some of the brightest minds in engineering from around the globe.

The MTC's engineers, scientists and technicians work with some of the most advanced manufacturing equipment in the world in a supportive and collegiate environment for the development and demonstration of new technologies on an industrial scale, helping manufacturers of all sizes develop new and innovative processes and technologies.

Established to prove cutting edge manufacturing advances in an agile environment in partnership with industry, academia and other institutions, the MTC works with hundreds of industrial clients across a range of sectors including automotive, aerospace, rail, informatics, food and drink, infrastructure, construction and civil engineering, electronics, oil and gas and defence. The MTC helps businesses thrive by advancing their technological and engineering capabilities to improve their business efficiency, capability and competitiveness.

Supported by one of the largest public sector investments in UK Manufacturing, the MTC's engineering capabilities cover research and development, advanced manufacturing management, factory design and training for the skills of the future.

The MTC has world-class facilities in Coventry, Liverpool and Oxford, and is part of the UK's High Value Manufacturing Catapult, supported by Innovate UK.

Reference Checks and Security Checks (where applicable)

Due to the nature of our business, all employment is subject to satisfactory references being obtained alongside a level of security clearance checks.