We're looking for a Safety Management Systems (SMS) Policy Manager to join our Railway Safety directorate. This role can be based at any of our office locations: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, York, Glasgow. At ORR we have adopted hybrid working and are currently expected to work from a workplace location for a minimum of two days per week or 40%.
This is an exciting time to join ORR, we are delivering a significant transformation programme to create a consistently agile and enabling organisation, with the right capability and a strong, inclusive culture that reflects our talented people. This will ensure we continue to operate as an independent, expert regulator, fit for the future and equipped with the capabilities and ways of working required to support sector-wide rail reform, while contributing to the government’s broader agenda on regulatory reform and economic growth. Further detail on our future role is set out here.
Rail Safety Capability sits within the Rail Safety, strategy & policy team and delivers a range of policy, regulatory and corporate functions as well as providing strategic direction to RSD’s work through risk ranking and prioritisation, data analysis and business planning.
This role plays a key part in helping to make Britain’s railways safer for passengers, workers and the public. By leading ORR’s approach to safety management and working with industry to improve how organisations identify, manage and control risk the post holder will help drive continuous improvement in health and safety performance across the rail industry.
The roles leads the development of ORR’s strategy, policy and regulatory approach to Health and Safety Management Systems (HSMS), ensuring that duty holders have effective arrangements in place to manage safety and learn from experience. Through promoting ORR’s Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3), the postholder supports industry to strengthen safety culture, improve decision making and achieve excellence in risk management.
As ORR’s specialist lead in this area, the role provides expert advice, guidance and training to colleagues and
industry stakeholders. Working collaboratively with industry stakeholders, the postholder influences
improvements in health and safety management systems and helps ensure that lessons are shared across the
industry, delivering better outcomes for those who use and work on Britain’s railways.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Job Information Pack for further details.
Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers at Our people | Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).
