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
EHS Assurance Manager (Site Based) employer: Arcadis
Arcadis UK is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where sustainability and resilience are at the forefront of our projects. Employees benefit from continuous professional development opportunities, a supportive environment, and the chance to work on impactful projects in the water and energy sectors. Located in the UK, we offer a dynamic workplace that values diversity and encourages creative solutions to complex engineering challenges.
