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About the Role
The Health and Safety Management Systems Lead is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving health and safety management systems, governance, assurance, and incident management across VIRTUS operations in the UK, Germany, and Italy. This role ensures clear definition, consistent implementation, effective reporting, and continuous improvement of health and safety requirements globally, while respecting local regulations. It serves as a central point for documentation, incident reporting, data analytics, governance, training, and incident management.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and improve the health and safety management system, aligning with legal obligations and internal standards.
- Manage the document control process for health and safety documentation, including creation, review, and archiving.
- Create practical guidance, forms, checklists, and templates to support consistent health and safety implementation.
- Map, simplify, and improve health and safety processes for practical integration into daily operations.
- Support assurance activities by maintaining compliance evidence and tracking corrective actions.
- Manage ISO certification and ensure compliance with related standards.
- Oversee the health and safety incident reporting framework, ensuring accurate and timely recording of incidents, near misses, hazards, and observations.
- Develop and track the performance of the VIRTUS health and safety assurance framework.
- Analyze incident data to identify trends, root causes, emerging risks, and opportunities for intervention.
- Prepare dashboards, performance reports, and insight packs for stakeholders.
- Monitor key performance indicators, including leading and lagging indicators and action closure rates.
- Coordinate the health and safety governance calendar, ensuring meetings are scheduled and supported by accurate information.
- Prepare agendas, papers, minutes, and action logs for health and safety committees and reviews.
- Track governance actions to completion and escalate overdue or high-risk items.
- Support the preparation of reports for executive and senior leadership review.
- Develop and maintain the health and safety training and competence matrix.
- Monitor completion of mandatory and role-specific training, identifying gaps and risks.
- Support the design, delivery, and evaluation of health and safety training and learning interventions.
- Ensure competence requirements are embedded into onboarding, operational processes, and contractor management.
- Coordinate incident management activities from notification to closure, including investigation and learning capture.
- Support or lead investigations into incidents, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions are agreed.
- Maintain incident investigation standards, templates, and guidance.
- Facilitate lessons learned processes and ensure learning is embedded into management system improvements.
- Identify and implement innovative approaches, including AI and digital tools, to improve health and safety risk management.
- Use AI-enabled analytics and reporting tools to identify emerging risks and support proactive mitigation.
- Ensure the responsible use of AI in health and safety processes, adhering to governance, data protection, and ethical requirements.
- Explore opportunities for digital improvement, process automation, and predictive insight within the health and safety management system.
- Translate innovation and AI-enabled insights into practical actions and learning to prevent incidents and strengthen risk management.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of health and safety management systems, document control, governance, and assurance processes.
- Experience establishing and maintaining document control arrangements.
- Experience managing incident reporting systems, producing performance reports, and using data for improvement.
- Confident in meeting management, including agenda planning, minute taking, action tracking, and preparing senior-level papers.
- Knowledge of incident investigation techniques, root cause analysis, and corrective action management.
- Ability to translate complex health and safety requirements into clear, practical processes, guidance, and communications.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong written communication skills for producing clear documentation, reports, and governance materials.
- Experience supporting training needs analysis, competence frameworks, and training compliance monitoring.
- Interest in innovation and the practical use of AI, automation, and digital tools for risk management.
- NEBOSH General Certificate, equivalent health and safety qualification, or demonstrable relevant experience.
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as IOSH is desirable.
- Training in incident investigation, root cause analysis, auditing, or management systems is desirable.
- Experience using health and safety reporting, learning management, or governance management systems is advantageous.
- Strong knowledge of health and safety management systems, governance structures, assurance processes, and regulatory expectations.
- Excellent document control skills, including version control, approval workflows, review cycles, controlled publication, and template management.
- Ability to develop clear, practical, and user-friendly policies, procedures, standards, guidance notes, forms, and checklists.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting incident data, identifying trends, and producing meaningful performance insight.
- Confident meeting management skills, including agenda setting, preparation of papers, minute taking, action tracking, and reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Good understanding of incident management, incident investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, and lessons learned processes.
- Strong organization and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and engage stakeholders at different levels.
- Ability to use digital tools, analytics, and AI-enabled outputs responsibly to support proactive health and safety risk management, while applying appropriate human review and professional judgment.
- Experience using health and safety management software, incident reporting platforms, learning management systems, or document management systems is desirable.
- Experience supporting audits, assurance reviews, compliance monitoring, or management system certification activities is desirable.
- Ability to design dashboards, reports, and performance packs using data visualization or reporting tools is desirable.
- Experience supporting training needs analysis, competence frameworks, and role-based learning plans is desirable.
- Experience working in a complex, multi-site, or operational environment is desirable.
- Experience working across multiple countries, jurisdictions, or regional operating models, ideally including the UK, Germany, and Italy is desirable.
- NEBOSH General Certificate, equivalent recognized health and safety qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Technical, associate, or graduate membership of a relevant professional body such as IOSH is desirable.
- Formal training in incident investigation, root cause analysis, auditing, risk management, or management systems is desirable.
- Training or experience in document control, quality management systems, process improvement, or governance administration is advantageous.
- Strong IT capability, including use of Microsoft Office applications and confidence working with reporting, document management, or workflow systems.
- Successful applicant must be willing to undergo a BS7858 screening process.
Skills
- Health and safety management systems
- Document control
- Governance processes
- Assurance processes
- Incident reporting
- Data analysis
- Performance reporting
- Meeting management
- Incident investigation
- Root cause analysis
- Corrective action management
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Training needs analysis
- Competence frameworks
- AI
- Automation
- Digital tools
- Risk management
- Data visualization
- Microsoft Office
Location
- UK
- Germany
- Italy
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Demonstrable relevant experience
Education Level
- NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent
About the Company
- VIRTUS Data Centres is a leading European data centre developer and operator, delivering secure, energy-efficient and flexible infrastructure for the growing demands of cloud, AI and digital services.
- With an established UK presence and a growing footprint across Europe, including Germany and Italy, VIRTUS is investing in next-generation, AI-ready infrastructure at scale.
- Our values are Clarity & Quality, Accountability, Customer Commitment, Purposeful Innovation, and Capability & Growth.
Equal Opportunity
- VIRTUS is an equal opportunity employer.
- As part of our commitment to fight for equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process.
- We celebrate diversity and we are committed to an inclusive work environment.