EHS Assurance Manager (Site Based)

Overview

As an EHS Assurance Manager, you provide independent client-side oversight of the General Contractor’s health, safety and environmental performance on a landmark, multi-building data centre campus project. You verify alignment with client EHS standards and statutory requirements, review plans and controls, and monitor high-risk activities to maintain the highest safety standards. Your insights influence project leadership and governance, shaping risk management across multiple workstreams. This strategic assurance role focuses on governance, reporting, and continuous improvement within a mission-critical environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee EHS assurance across multiple project workstreams
• Test effectiveness of contractor controls, systems, and implementation on site
• Undertake targeted assurance inspections of high-risk works
• Review permit systems, safe systems of work, and workface controls
• Escalate critical risks and recurring failures in a timely, structured manner
• Produce weekly and monthly assurance reporting for project leadership
• Contribute to governance reviews and senior leadership reporting
• Promote high standards of safety, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement

Key requirements

• Strong experience in construction EHS management, ideally within data centres, mission-critical environments, or major infrastructure
• Deep understanding of high-risk construction activities, permit systems, safe systems of work, critical hazard controls
• Experience auditing and assuring contractor performance
• Ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
• Strong reporting, observation, and analytical capability
• Experience identifying trends, recurring failures, and emerging risk themes

• Independent and objective
• Detail-oriented and risk-focused
• Strong communicator
• EHS management systems
• EHS audits and assurance
• Risk-based inspection and incident reporting

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