Technical Safety Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre - Field Based and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Corporate Services
Closing date: 25 June 2025
Requisition ID: 400002279
Flexible location - Field Based and Home
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Technical Safety Manager offers the opportunity to play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and well-being of customers and colleagues across the UK and Northern Ireland. As a valued member of the Group Safety & Insurance team, you will provide expert guidance on technical safety matters, contributing to the development of robust safety management processes and driving continuous improvement initiatives. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and compliance, this role allows you to make a meaningful impact by safeguarding against risks and ensuring a safe environment for all, while being supported by a dedicated team and access to ongoing training and development opportunities aligned with your career aspirations.
What you'll do
In the role of Technical Safety Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for providing expert technical safety support across all areas of the organisation, focusing on aspects such as building structure, fixed equipment like lifts and escalators, store design, noise, legionella, asbestos, DSE, work equipment, and PPE. Your key responsibilities will include collating and interpreting data to identify trends, recommending measures to reduce harm and enhance compliance, and identifying opportunities for improvement and cost reduction. Working collaboratively with various teams, including Sainsbury's Property Division and FM contractors, you will ensure that safety compliance levels are maintained through design, installation, and maintenance processes, while conducting on-site risk assessments and supporting the corporate valued behaviours principles.
Who you are
As a Technical Safety Manager, you are a dedicated professional with a strong background in occupational health and safety, particularly in technical safety aspects such as building structures, fixed equipment, and safety management processes. With your NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent qualification, you demonstrate high standards of forward planning, risk management, and organisational skills, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and minimising the risk of harm to customers and colleagues. Your ability to collaborate cross-functionally, interpret data, and provide expert advice on technical safety topics makes you a valuable asset in supporting the development and implementation of safety initiatives to enhance the overall safety culture within the organisation.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
