Business Assurance Manager

Canvey Island, Essex
Calor Gas Ltd

Business Assurance Manager/Lead – Canvey Terminal

Salary: £38k – £46k – dependant on qualifications and experience, plus Management/ Performance Bonus Eligibility – On Target 10% – Max 20%, plus excellent benefits

Creating a better world, a better company, and a more fulfilling future

The Terminal Management team at Canvey are looking for a Business Assurance Manager/Lead who will manage and lead a team to control and undertake the day-to-day administration of the terminal (24/7 top tier COMAH site) including responsibility for the management of purchasing and budgetary control.

The role is to deliver ‘business’ assurance against the Calor operating model and site COMAH requirements and ensure business outputs provide assurance that all necessary statutory and commercials objectives are being achieved and the business is operating within all appropriate legislative & regulatory requirements, ACOPs and industry best practice.

You will manage the terminals Emergency Planning & Business Continuity and Resilience systems in line with Calor policy and industry best practice. To establish an optimised audit and assurance schedule and the management of actions and implement agreed continuous improvement initiatives.

Act as Port Facility Security Officer (PFSO) and ensure terminal is compliant in all respects in relation to ships calling at the terminal.

The Canvey Terminal is the largest facility in the UK able to import and export refrigerated propane. Operations include the loading and unloading of ships, management of refrigerated LPG storage.

Key responsibilities will include:

• To organize and control Canvey Terminal administration and site services to ensure efficient operation and cost control.
• Prepare and co-ordinate site budgets and plans to achieve financial objectives
• Responsible for delivering business performance targets, KPIs, Letters of Assurance and Risk Registers and to ensure that these are completed in a timely manner and add value to the business
• Accountable for the delivery, maintenance and implementation of robust internal and external emergency plans and routine exercising of the plans. Also playing a key ‘on call’ role in the management of incidents, both on and off site.
• Accountable for the delivery, maintenance and implementation of a robust Business Continuity & Resilience Plan and associated Business Impact Assessments in line with Calor policies and procedures and industry best practice.
• Responsible for ensuring maintenance of the Legal Register and evaluation of Legal Compliance for the Canvey Terminal
• Accountable for undertaking effective audits, inspections and checks to show that all requirements of the business are being enacted, monitored and reported.
• Planning and delivery of the terminal Audit Program and the Management Systems review.
• Ensuring that the terminal Action Tracker is utilised appropriately and actions are monitored and closed promptly
• Responsible for undertaking business process reviews of all aspects of terminal operations to ensure compliance with regulatory and legal obligations
• Accountable for ensuring that effective audit and inspections of the safety and technical management systems necessary to assure process and business compliance with all statutory, industry, company and project standards including new legislation are conducted.
• Responsible for the installation and maintenance of an effective training framework and audit of adherence.
• Responsible for the control, audit, and issue of controlled documents.
• Responsible for SHE management at the terminal, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance as well as ensuring operations and practices are in line with Calor’s frameworks, standards and industry best practices.
• Accountable for assessing Terminal compliance with ISO9001, ISO14001, OHSAS18001 (soon to be ISO45001) and ISO50001, fit for purpose and operating as designed, through inspection, audit and review and a continuous improvement mind set

As such we would like you to:

• Educated to degree level in either a business or engineering discipline (Desirable)
• Qualified to NEBOSH GC level or higher (Desirable)
• Knowledge of international standards, policies and procedures and their application in the field
• Knowledge of applying business continuity plans and practices
• Ability to deliver changes effectively within an organisation, programme or project
• Demonstrable leadership, people management skills and excellent communicator able to recognise and resolve issues to give satisfactory solutions.
• Experience in a high hazard process-based environment (3 years) with comprehensive understanding of safety and technical issues relating to LPG plant operations.
• Detailed understanding of Safe Systems of Work and application of Permit to Work systems in a high hazard process environment.
• Working knowledge of Risk Assessment, COSHH, Work Instructions & Incident Investigation
• Working knowledge of incident investigation, root cause analysis and lessons learned
• Experience of leading audits
• Experience of report writing
• Ability to effectively communicate/experience of communicating at all levels – from operative to C-suite level.
• Strong self-awareness – Recognising your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as others, in order to work collaboratively in and effective and complimentary manner.
• Requires a good understanding of safety and technical issues and procedures relating to all items of cryogenic and high pressure operations and maintenance of hazardous materials within a specific discipline or plant operation.
• Experience of implementation of policies, procedures and processes (Desirable in relation to high pressure gas/cryogenic gasses)
• Strong commitment to process, occupational safety and continuous improvements of safety standards. Understands effects of cultural and behavioural safety.
• Appreciation of implications and interactions of site activities on the wider operation of the process.
• An organised and analytical approach, excellent at planning with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to recognise, understand, manipulate and interpret information/data in order to make informed, effective, data driven decisions.
• Experience of management, control and reporting of budgets – including ability to Investigate variances against Budget / target, and make recommendations on suitable actions to be taken.
• Experience of leading internal audits
• Experience in incident investigation, root cause analysis and lessons learned
• Working knowledge of Risk Assessment, COSHH, Work Instructions & Incident Investigation

In return we off you:

• Salary: £38k – £46k – dependant on qualifications and experience
• Private Medical Insurance – Salary sacrifice – single matched contributions to 4.5% for first 2 years, up to 7.5% after 2 years
• Management/ Performance Bonus Eligibility – On Target 10% – Max 20%
• Eligibility commences from 1st of month following completion of probationary period
• Holidays: 33 days including Bank Holidays
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Maximum amount of days available to purchase is 1 week (up to 5 days)
• Employee Discounts
• Staff are able to purchase a number of Calor items at a discount e.g. Cookers, Boilers, Patio Heathers, BBQ’s etc.
• Various discounts with Holiday providers and retail outlets
• Discounted Gym Membership

If this sounds like you, please apply by clicking the link below.

To be considered for the above opportunity you must be eligible to live and work in UK and hold a full driving licence that is valid for you to drive in the UK.

We are a responsible business where safety is our number one priority. As such, during any visit to, or employment with Calor, you may be randomly selected to undergo a drugs and alcohol test. Such results, which would be shared with you, may be taken into consideration in relation to any employment application or continued employment.

Calor Gas Ltd. adhere to ethical recruiting methods ensuring that we do not discriminate against any candidate because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.