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VS/7228D
Health, Safety & Environment Manager
Manchester City Centre
£45,000 – £55,000 per annum – Negotiable upwards dependent on experience
40 hours per week, Monday – Friday
My client is a leading UK property developer, currently seeking an experienced and qualified Health and Safety Advisor to advise on building safety management, within the company and across their high and low-rise apartment blocks and offices.
As a Buildings Safety Advisor, you will be responsible for ensuring the company complies with all statutory and non-statutory safety responsibilities in relation to legislation and building regulations.
You will also ensure a high level of building safety across all of their developments, with the welfare and safety of staff, residents and other building users being your top priority.
Key responsibilities
- Assist, develop and maintain information management systems for the safe management of buildings, maintaining accurate records and systems
- Provide advice and ensure compliance with regulations on fire and building safety, legionella, asbestos, electrical and gas
- Conduct audits and inspections in accordance with a monitored programme
- Identify building hazards and ensure remedial works are undertaken
- Communicate with residents about the safe management of their building
- Influence a culture of positive health, safety and wellbeing within the company
- Coordinate the organization and evaluation of disaster recovery drills
- Ensure the accident, incident and near miss reporting procedure is followed across the developments
- Establish positive relationships with a wide range of colleagues and suppliers
- Providing advice to company employees, senior managers, managers and staff, on all aspects appertaining to health, safety and environmental matters
- Arranging and carrying out site safety and environmental audits and safety inspections, maintain records of audits and inspections and ensure necessary corrective measures are agreed and implemented
- Assisting with incident/accident investigations
- Assisting with investigating the environmental implications of the company’s activities and suggesting actions which may prove beneficial to the environment, the company or others
- Continuously seeking, proposing and implementing agreed H&S and environmental performance improvements
- Support on our current cultural drive to improve health safety and environmental standards on company projects and offices
- Provide statistical data to the director responsible for SHE to demonstrate where improvements can be made
- Identify root cause analysis of any incidents occurring
- Maintain regular contact with all project teams and office managers to advise on SHE matters
Qualifications, skills and experience
- NEBOSH Health & Safety Qualified
- A relevant Fire Safety qualification accredited by the IFE or IFSM or equivalent
- Relevant experience in environmental matters and a good understanding of ISO 14001
- Comprehensive knowledge of H&S legislation and practice in Construction and Property Sector(s), residential apartments blocks or similar
- Solid understanding of high-risk residential buildings including fire risk, construction and M&E
- Motivated, driven and passionate about improvement of H&S
- Good communicator, with a positive, pragmatic mindset and a can-do attitude
- Accountable, self-motivated and results driven
- Excellent IT skills including the use of Office packages
- Able to work closely and establish positive relationships
- Experience in carrying out compliance inspections and audits
- Ability to travel to all offices and buildings within the portfolio on a regular basis.
- A full clean UK driving licence
- Relevant CSCS Card
- Ability to work clearly and accurately under pressure and tight timescales
- Membership of a relevant organisation (IOSH / IIRSM)
In the first instance please apply by forwarding your CV
Please contact Vicky at our Manchester office
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