Health and Safety Manager

Overview

In this role you will own the Health, Safety and Wellbeing strategy for a high-profile civil infrastructure project in the North-East of Lincolnshire. You will report to the Head of HSW and lead the project-wide HSW program, driving compliance, leadership and continuous improvement. You’ll develop and implement project-specific HSW plans, investigate incidents, and train the team, collaborating with construction, engineering and commercial teams to ensure safe delivery. This is a hands-on leadership role with significant impact on project safety culture and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of the project’s HSW strategy
• Manage the HSW team on the project
• Ensure compliance with legislation, client requirements and company systems
• Lead project inspections, audits and assurance activities
• Act as principal HSW advisor to Project Director and senior leadership
• Develop, implement and maintain project-specific HSW management plans and safe systems of work
• Investigate accidents, incidents and near misses
• Monitor performance and lead HSW meetings
• Provide high-quality HSW training to the team
• Collaborate with construction, engineering and commercial teams to support safe project delivery

Key requirements

• Extensive proven experience leading HSW on major construction or infrastructure projects (ideally marine, port or heavy civils)
• NEBOSH Diploma (preferred) or NEBOSH Construction Certificate with substantial experience
• CMIOSH or working towards Chartership
• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and its application within Design & Build projects
• Excellent communication, leadership and interpersonal skills
• Experience leading incident investigations, audits and continuous improvement programmes
• Strong understanding of behavioural safety, occupational health and wellbeing
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Power BI and document management systems

• communication
• leadership
• collaboration
• MS Office
• Power BI
• document management systems

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