Health & Safety Manager

Company: Fawkes & Reece
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Location: Berkshire
Job Description:

Overview

As Health & Safety Manager, you will lead health and safety across a flagship Berkshire project, guiding project management, site teams and subcontractors toward the highest standards. You will provide strong leadership to the H&S team and ensure compliance with UK regulations. You’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining safe operations on a large, complex site and help shape safety culture across the project. This role offers impact at scale within a well-established contractor delivering high-profile data centre/M&E work.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the project-wide health and safety strategy and implementation
  • Collaborate with project management, site teams, subcontractors and senior stakeholders
  • Ensure delivery of the highest health and safety standards on site
  • Provide leadership and guidance to the project H&S team
  • Monitor compliance with UK health and safety legislation and construction regulations

Key requirements

  • Proven Health & Safety Manager experience in a major construction environment
  • Data centre and/or M&E experience
  • Ability to lead and manage a project H&S team
  • Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and construction regulations
  • IOSH qualification
  • NVQ Level 4 in Occupational Health & Safety
  • Excellent communication, leadership and organizational skills
  • Experience on large, complex, high-profile projects
  • communication
  • leadership
  • organizational skills
  • UK health and safety legislation knowledge
  • construction regulations knowledge
  • H&S leadership on construction sites

Posted: September 14th, 2026