Better places, thriving communities. Job Overview

• The Duty Holder is accountable for the safe, compliant, and effective operation of assets, systems, and activities within their scope. The role ensures that all risks are identified, understood, and controlled so that operations remain fit for purpose, legally compliant, and aligned with AstraZeneca standards.

Main Duties

• Accountability for safe operation: making sure the asset, area, or activity under their control is managed safely and remains fit for purpose.
• Compliance with legal and AZ requirements: ensuring applicable laws, regulations, permits, and AstraZeneca standards are understood and implemented.
• Risk management: identifying major hazards, ensuring risk assessments are completed, and confirming that appropriate control measures are in place and effective.
• Governance and assurance: setting clear responsibilities, maintaining oversight, and checking that required inspections, audits, monitoring, and assurance activities happen.
• Resource allocation: ensuring there are enough competent people, time, budget, and tools to manage the risks properly.
• Competence and training: confirming that personnel performing critical tasks are suitably trained, competent, and authorised where required.
• Maintenance and integrity: ensuring equipment, systems, and protective barriers are inspected, maintained, and tested so they continue to perform as intended.
• Management of change: making sure changes to plant, process, organisation, or procedures are properly reviewed, approved, and implemented without creating unmanaged risk.
• Emergency preparedness: ensuring suitable emergency plans, response arrangements, and drills are in place for credible incidents.
• Incident management and learning: ensuring incidents, near misses, and non-conformances are reported, investigated, and acted on, with lessons learned embedded.
• Documentation and record keeping: making sure critical documents, procedures, certifications, and records are accurate, current, and accessible.
• Stop or escalate when unsafe: intervening, pausing work, or escalating issues where risks are not adequately controlled.

What we are looking for

• Accountability & Ownership
• Takes personal accountability for safety outcomes, not just process compliance
• Clearly defines “who is responsible for what” and holds others to account
• Will intervene, stop work, or escalate where risk is not adequately controlled

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle. We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home.

We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee.

Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Jessica Mercel at jess.mercel@mitie.com.

Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from hous