The role will report directly to the Head of Health & Safety and will encompass, but not be limited to, the following responsibilities:
- Lead and manage health and safety activities at both corporate and group levels, providing expert guidance and support across the organisation, including to contractors and customers.
- Develop, implement, and review Health & Safety policies and procedures, ensuring the delivery of compliant, practical, and effective operational advice.
- Conduct comprehensive audits and inspections to assess adherence to Health & Safety policies, ensuring that necessary procedures are followed and enforced, while offering recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Oversee the health and safety aspects of projects and bids, ensuring their alignment with the overall objectives and performance targets of the organisation.
- Use professional judgment and expertise to deliver safe and effective solutions in complex projects and operations across an international platform, ensuring proper risk management in designs, working practices, and environments.
- Provide independent and expert advice on day-to-day safety management matters to senior leadership, project teams, and contractors, with a focus on maximising safety and preventing loss.
- Foster strong working relationships across multiple locations and departments, promoting effective business collaboration.
- Take the lead on health and safety during projects, ensuring compliance with CDM 2015 throughout both the design and construction phases.
- Lead Health & Safety initiatives in engineering operations, estates management, and logistics activities.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with Trade Union Safety Representatives, safety support staff (such as incident coordinators, fire wardens, and first aid staff), and key health and safety representatives.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders in Engineering & Operations, Commercial Bid teams, Procurement, and Logistics.
- Establish a network of relationships with regional management to provide guidance on managing risks in various activities across sites.
- Build effective working relationships with health and safety specialists within construction contractors.
The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in Health & Safety within a complex, multi-disciplinary organisation. A NEBOSH General Certificate in Health & Safety is essential, and candidates should ideally be working towards achieving a NEBOSH Diploma (or an equivalent qualification).
Assured Safety Recruitment are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company operating across the UK. We recruit all roles in the Health and Safety industry including Health and Safety Advisor, Health and Safety Manager, Health and Safety Director, and HSE, HSEQ, SHEQ, QHSE, EHS positions.
Once we have received your details, we will be in touch within 14 days if your application has been successful for the role. Wherever possible we do try to contact all of our applicants directly, however sometimes due to a large volume of applicants this isn’t always possible. If you have not been contacted within 14 days of applying, unfortunately this means your application has not been successful, but we may keep your details on file for future opportunities.
Assured Safety Recruitment is an equality and diversity focused recruiter, and we actively welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, we never discriminate based on race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
Assured Safety Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.