Health and Safety Manager

Job Title:Health and Safety Manager

Location: Watford / Saxmundham

Thorn Baker's Award-Winning Civils Specialist client is looking for a Health and Safety Manager to work on the design and build of a new substation in Suffolk. The project involves carrying out significant earth moving operations on the greenfield site, new roads and road junctions, reinforced concrete works and steel framed superstructures housing the next generation of equipment to deliver balanced renewable power into the National Grid. Design and environmental consent works are already underway, and construction will commence in spring next year with a planned handover and energisation to grid in December 2027. Project duration is around 3 years.

Reporting to the Project Director, the Health and Safety Manager will be responsible for developing a positive health & safety culture focused upon accident prevention and improving the health & safety across the project.

What's in it for you:

• £70-75kper annum+ car or carallowance
• Generous pension contribution
• Learning and Development opportunities

Required Skills:

• Previous experience as a Health and Safety Manager working on a major infrastructure project
• Degree or equivalent in a construction related subject
• NEBOSH and/or IOSH
• Range of relevant safety training including Fire, Confined Spaces, First Aid, COSHH, HSG 47. Others such as Appointed Person for Lifting Operations are very desirable but not essential.

Your Responsibilities:

• Initiate and maintain positive measures to raise standards, ensuring the company complies with OHSAS 18001 obligations, health & safety legislation and all minimum health & safety standards (MSS).
• Support the monitoring of sites through the audit process, in a proactive manner to address any issues.
• Establish a system to ensure that all personnel on site, to work or to visit, have received a site induction briefing before going on site. Ensure the induction is regularly updated to reflect current site hazards/conditions.
• Ensure effective investigations take place to prevent accidents & incidents, whilst ensuring effective learning from all events are presented to the head of HSEQ for wider business distribution.
• Ensure a construction phase health & safety plan is prepared and accepted before works start and make sure the plan is continually updated.
• Full job description available upon request.

Key skills: health and safety manager, construction, civils, NEBOSH

For more information on the role please contact Rhian at Thorn Baker on (phone number removed) or email: (url removed)

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