Health & Safety Advisor

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

7/23/2025

Job description:

• Health & Safety Advisor
• Based at Manchester Airport
• Permanent position

 

 

Why MAG?

Every year, Manchester Airport connects over 30 million passengers with more than 200 destinations across the globe. As the third largest airport in the UK, Manchester is also in the top 20 airports in Europe. Part of the largest UK owned airport operator group, MAG, Manchester Airport supports over 19,000 jobs onsite and generates around £7.75bn each year for the region. 

 

Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We're committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities.  Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities. 

 

At MAG, we recognise creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues and we are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits including: 

• Flexible and generous company pension plan with various company contribution options (up to 10%) that you can change to suit your personal needs 
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays 
• Free parking 
• Subsidised public transport 
• Huge range of company discounts 
• 2 volunteering days per year 
• Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 
• Care Concierge service  

 

 

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Manchester Airports Safety Department as a Safety Advisor reporting to the Safety Business Partner.

 

In this role you’ll devise and deliver safety improvement actions and initiatives and contribute to the effective delivery of the annual safety strategy to mature and enhance the business safety performance and culture.  You’ll carry out assurance activities to ensure compliance with standards and continuous improvement, including identifying and enabling delivery of recommendations. 

 

Duties will include:

• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of all Health and Safety policies and procedures to ensure accurate advice is provided.
• Offer clear, correct, and consistent guidance to line managers to interpret regulatory requirements and integrate them into business planning, covering areas such as incident management and investigations, risk assessment, specialist safety assessments, inspection and monitoring, L1 assurance plans, and corrective action management.
• Develop and deliver training programs to enhance Line Managers understanding of policies, procedures, and H&S legislation as needed.
• Support incident investigations to identify root causes and ensure appropriate remedial actions are implemented and tracked to completion, escalating risks to the H&S Business Partner as necessary.
• Monitor and oversee departmental Health and Safety Training plans, ensuring they are developed, and compliance is tracked through local forums.
• Participate in and support departmental consultative forums, such as Health and Safety Local Forums.
• Provide technical health and safety support for projects to ensure regulatory standards are met.
• Support and deputise for the Health Safety Business Partner in the implementation and management of MAG priorities.
• Assist with change management programs, ensuring all system actions are completed following the change.
• Develop and monitor leading and lagging HSE performance indicators for departments, interpret data, and implement improvements based on findings.
• Contribute to and, when appropriate, conduct HSE audits and inspections, compiling reports and recommendations

 

 

What will make you successful in the role?

The successful candidate will have Health and Safety experience, preferably dealing with complex and high hazard environments, experience of H&S Incident management, incident investigation, risk assessment and knowledge of up-to-date health and safety law. As NEBOSH general certificate is essential, along with strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the business and experience of analysing information and to determine effective solutions. You’ll also have a high level of computer literacy and be self-motivated with a passion for health and safety and the ability to prioritise and manage demands.

 

Successful candidates may be invited to complete an online assessment and attend an interview.

For further information about this role, please contact by email, Daniel Sayers, Safety Business Partner  [email protected]