Quality, Health and Safety Manager

Quality, Health and Safety Manager

Location: Remote

Contract: Full time, Permanent Role, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Salary up to £53,500 per annum

As our Quality Health & Safety Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring full compliance with contractual, legal and organisational requirements across our housing services. You will use your hands-on expertise to provide practical solutions, offer operational support, maintaining a robust and value-adding Quality Management System (QMS).

You’ll work closely with senior managers, operational teams and subcontractors to ensure best practice across areas including asbestos, fire safety, damp and mould, and general housing safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Fulfil the contract’s Health & Safety requirements, ensuring compliance across housing-related risks including asbestos, fire, damp and mould.
• Deliver and maintain a value-adding Quality Management System and improvement plan aligned with contract needs.
• Instil and promote a strong Health & Safety culture throughout service delivery.
• Review and update QMS and SHE plans in line with legislative and contractual changes.
• Review risk assessments, incident and accident reports, and support the resolution of issues.
• Monitor H&S training needs; deliver or arrange suitable training programmes.
• Ensure adequate provision of First Aiders and Mental Health First Aiders, providing guidance and support where required.
• Develop, maintain and support ISO accreditations (including ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001).
• Undertake regular audits of processes, stock and subcontractors to identify improvements and evidence compliance.
• Maintain logs, registers and plans such as the risk register and business continuity plan.
• Provide regular performance reporting to management and the Contract Delivery Director.
• Manage background checks, security clearances and subcontractor audits.
• Oversee physical site security including alarms, access control, ID badges and data security compliance.
• Deliver induction, refresher training and contribute to team and individual development plans.
• Provide hands-on support across operational functions and contribute to ad-hoc projects.
• Ensure full compliance with the Mears code of conduct, policies and contract terms.

Role Criteria

• Experience in similar role 
• Operations background
• Demonstrational background in housing management
• CQI qualification or willing to achieve this
• NEBOSH, IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent
• Understand ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001
• People management experience
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a Background, Identity, Security clearance & BPSS check. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

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