Reporting to: Senior Manager SEHS UK/EU 

​The ideal candidate has good health, safety, and security experience. This is a position that helps with operational requirements and provides support to the Senior Manager SEHS. Helping to improve safety to support business operations for the studio divisions of The MBS Group in the UK and in Europe.

You must be able to provide clarity when delegating instructions. You need to be highly organised and disciplined. You will elevate and maintain safety and security in MBS’s culture and operation. You will be supporting processes and procedures, assisting our teams, customers and helping the Senior Manager.

Key Duties

• Provide health and safety support and guidance to Studio Operations throughout the UK and Europe.
• Support Senior Manager SEHS with contracted safety and security suppliers.
• Monitor status, implementation, and maintenance of safety systems, across multiple sites.
• Work closely with Studio Management and other MBS shared services to develop and implement safety programs.
• Keep policies up to date, meeting regulatory compliance and guidance.
• Assist with establishing new policies and procedures as the risk landscape evolves.
• Work with incoming productions to advise on transfer of liability and information exchange, pertinent to each license agreement, variable across different sites.
• Assist in developing emergency response procedures specific to each location’s utilisation mix.
• Monitor local studio facilities teams’ compliance procedures for the Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order.
• Ensure site-based risk assessments are completed and mitigations are complete or in progress for all MBS managed studio locations.
• Develop risk registers where risk information needs to be communicated to internal and external partners.
• Manage local facilities teams’ implementation of permit to work systems and other customer and contractor controls.
• Respond to issues relating to health, safety, environment, emergency response, performance metrics, and safety management systems for operations on all sites. Including developing triage and investigation processes.
• Assist with developing safety programs for our studios as the company grows.
• Schedule and organise regular safety training and orientations.
• Clearly communicate and implement safety requirements to site and property leadership.
• Liaise with the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) and other European agencies and local Fire Authorities to ensure requirements are met and exceeded and relationships are upheld.
• Other duties as created and assigned.
  

Person Specification

• Health, safety, and security qualifications would be desirable.
• Willingness to learn on the job and keep striving to improve skills and maintain their CPD.
• Demonstrable understanding of safety risk assessments and mitigations.
• Mainly working at Eastbrook Studio, but a willingness to travel to other sites occasionally.
• 2+ years of Safety related experience.
• 1+ years of management and training experience.
• Solid understanding of Health and safety requirements for the entertainment (or related) industry.
• Must have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with common access control, CCTV, and alarm systems.

About Us

The MBS Group is a premier provider of studio facilities, equipment and support to the global film and television production community.

As part of the world’s largest, best in class, studio and media real estate operation, the company exclusively services over 360 stages, via an international network of 65+ locations.

Working in partnership with production, the MBS Group proudly supports content creators and studio owners, with a complete service offering, including the industry’s most expansive, technologically advanced inventory of lighting and grip equipment, end-to-end studio management solutions, global planning, facilities consulting, studio design and development services.