Health, Safety, & Security Manager - Funeralcare
£42,000-£48,000 plus excellent benefits, Work level 6A
Permanent, full time
Manchester city centre – hybrid working with some travel to the Glasgow Coffin Factory for site visits

We’re looking for a Health, Safety, and Security Manager to join our Funeralcare Risk team.

In this role, you’ll provide operational health, safety, and security support for our Coffin Factory operations, alongside designing and delivering nationwide initiatives to improve how our Funeralcare business manages health, safety, and security. You don’t need knowledge of Funeralcare operations for this role, providing a fantastic chance to develop your skills within a key area of our business.

What you’ll do

•    Visit the Coffin Factory site regularly and engage with the leadership team and operational colleagues, providing colleagues with instructions about how to safely complete work tasks
•    Complete risk assessments for Coffin Factory activities, identifying significant hazards, evaluating the risks, and selecting control measures and continuously improving these
•    Chair the Coffin Factory Health and Safety Committee, and deliver on any outputs and issues from this
•    Investigate and report on accidents that happen at the Coffin Factory, identifying the immediate, underlying and root causes, and providing recommendations to prevent recurrence
•    Scope, design and deliver business initiatives to improve how Funeralcare manages health, safety and security
•    Analyse business data to identify business improvement opportunities and deliver on planned activity 
•    Line manage one colleague, leading and developing them in an inclusive way

This role would suit people who have

•    A minimum of a level 3 risk or safety qualification
•    Experience of using incident databases 
•    Good analytical skills – you’re confident in using Excel and you can identify trends in data to drive improvements 
•    Excellent communication skills with the confidence to have challenging conversations

Why Co-op?

Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:
•    competitive salary 
•    coaching, training and support to help you develop 
•    pension with up to 10% employer contributions
•    annual incentive scheme 
•    28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
discounts on Co-op products and services 
•    Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve. 

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. 

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you're a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.