Senior SHE Business Partner

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Key Information

Job title: Senior Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Business Partner: Risk, Governance and Assurance

Salary: Circa £77,250                                      

Grade: Band 4 

Contract type: Permanent                               

Location: London (Hybrid)

Application closing date: 04/08/2025

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4 week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements. 

About us

Transport for London play a key role in shaping what life in London. Our transport infrastructure and public transport network is admired around the world. We are changing London for the future – making it one of the best cities to live, work and visit.

Our purpose is to move London forward safely, inclusively and sustainably – this is why we exist. Our vision is to be the strong, green heartbeat for London and this role is integral to achievement of these aims.  Our passion to create a fairer, greener, healthier and prosperous city is ambitious. By 2041, we aim to make 80 per cent of all journeys by foot, cycle, or public transport. To do this we need to prioritise health and the quality of people’s experience in everything we do.

These exciting programmes are delivered through our healthy streets and healthy people strategy, making walking for travel at its heart, improving air quality, safe and inclusive travel and fewer car trips.

Transport for London (TfL) plays a significant role in London and our Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team inspires and influences our leadership teams, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders to deliver safer, healthier and more efficient services for the millions of people who use them every day. We are looking for people with a passion for making London’s transport network safer, healthier, and greener.

About the role
As Senior Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Business Partner: Risk, Governance and Assurance, you will lead in ensuring that TfL Operations have the right framework in place for driving improvements in managing safety, health and environmental risks, supported by the right governance and assurance.

You’ll report into our Director of SHE TfL Operations leading a small and well-established team, and will work collaboratively with teams across TfL to ensure that we work together to achieve our safety, organisational health and environmental improvement goals. You will lead in

• Ensuring that significant current and emerging SHE risks are managed effectively across TfL’s activities - from our larger operations – London Underground and buses to our smaller activities – cable car and river services
• Driving improvements in SHE Assurance to ensure that TfL has a structured and robust framework in managing SHE risk
• Delivering improvements in SHE reporting and governance – ensuring that appropriate reporting on SHE issues, allowing TfL teams to respond appropriately to changes in SHE performance
• External engagement and benchmarking for the SHE TfL Operations team, working with colleagues and others across the transport industry to share TfL’s experiences and to learn from others.

We are looking for experienced SHE professionals with excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills. With a commitment to excellence in health, safety and environmental performance, you will be able to demonstrate experience of leading the development of high-quality support to delivery teams and inspiring commitment and action from others to deliver improvements in SHE performance. You will have a track record of driving SHE improvements through a proactive approach involving culture change.

Key Accountabilities

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Ensuring that significant current and emerging SHE risks are managed effectively across TfL’s activities - from our larger operations – London Underground and buses to our smaller activities – cable car and river services
• Ensuring robust SHE Assurance framework is in place, including driving improvements in SHE Assurance to ensure that TfL has a structured, robust and forward-looking approach
• Delivering improvements in SHE reporting and governance – ensuring that appropriate reporting on SHE issues, allowing TfL teams to respond appropriately to changes in SHE performance
• External engagement and benchmarking for the SHE TfL Operations team, working with colleagues and others across the transport industry to share TfL’s experiences and to learn from others.
• Leading a team of SHE professionals who provide SHE direction, technical advice, best practice sharing and support on risk, governance, assurance and reporting
• Understanding TfL-wide and business specific SHE risks, data and strategic direction. Ensuring your teams understand and their efforts are directed at supporting the business in areas of highest risk and are actively engaged in shaping the SHE strategy
• Reflecting business needs and requirements back into the TfL SHE team to and ensure that these are embedded in TfL’s SHE vision and strategy
• Coaching and supporting the business to understand their regulatory requirements, TfL’s SHE vision and goals, and challenging them to improve SHE performance
• Being a role model for diversity and inclusion, and influencing to positively affect the whole directorate and beyond
• Acting as a core part of the senior SHE TfL Operations team

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

• Leadership skills to inspire, manage, motivate and develop your team and colleagues across TfL (Essential)
• Well-developed collaboration, relationship and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to communicate with, influence and build relationships with key stakeholders including working across organisational boundaries (Essential)
• Vision, commitment and enthusiasm for change, with the tenacity and resilience to overcome challenges, demonstrating proven ability to take complex and strategic improvement initiatives from feasibility through to successful delivery (Essential)
• Strong skills in managing SHE risk and assurance programmes (Essential)
• Strong ability to understand performance data and trends and explain the underlying meaning to the business (Essential)
• Strong ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design (Highly desirable)
• Ability to work in a operational environment to very tight time constraints and high quality (Essential)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports (Essential)

Knowledge

• Understanding of the Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities (Essential)
• Knowledge of external SHE regulatory requirements which apply to the transport (Essential)
• Comprehensive understanding of the principles and application of SHE Management Systems (Essential)
• Strong knowledge of SHE techniques (for example investigation, risk assessment and assurance) (Essential)
• Strong understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety critical environment (Highly desirable)
• Good understanding of how culture change can drive changes in SHE performance (Highly desirable)
• NEBOSH diploma (or equivalent experience) (Highly desirable)
• Membership of relevant professional body e.g., IOSH, IEMA, CIBSE (Desirable)

Experience

• Experience of influencing stakeholders to deliver business improvements which have lasting results (Essential)
• Demonstrated ability to understand a very broad range of strategic management issues and respond in an agile way (Essential)
• Experience in communicating complex information in an easily digestible manner to non-technical audiences in a way which drives effective decision-making (Essential)
• Experience in operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around business vision and direction (Essential)
• Experience in a management role, leading, developing and motivating staff while improving performance (Highly desirable)
• Experience or leading in SHE-conscious environment (Highly desirable)

Application Process 

• Please apply using your CV and a one-page covering letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

Equality, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. 
 

Benefits  
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow.  Rewards vary according to the level of role but mostly include the below:
 
Final salary pension scheme 
Free travel for you on the TfL network 
Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays 
TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow
Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) 
Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
Retail, health, leisure and travel offers 
Discounted Eurostar travel
 

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.