Senior Health and Safety and Wellbeing Manager in Leeds

This role drives the UK&I and Global Resilience Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HS&W) strategy and agenda, taking the lead within a specialist discipline and service area. It provides professional leadership across all resilience services within the Specialist & Scientists job families, while maintaining personal competence and professional status. The position demonstrates the capability to influence both Arcadis business operations and the ongoing development of HS&W practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Identifying HS&W improvements that can create additional work scopes for project teams and clients, thereby ensuring compliance.
• Actively improving HS&W culture through engagement, behaviours and expectations.
• Bringing thought leadership to both the business and clients.
• Focusing on cultivating insights and innovative solutions for clients and internal teams.
• Positively leading and engaging with the HS&W agenda, embracing diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Building and consolidating strong relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Taking on HS&W lead roles for major projects and key clients when required.
• Supporting risk management through independent technical reviews.
• Investigating HS&W-related client complaints and underperforming projects.
• Following up on review findings to drive continuous improvement.

Strategy

• Develop country resilience HS&W Business Strategy and tactical in-year plan with UK HS&W Leadership team, in conjunction with the Global and Regional HS&W director, and Country Director and operations manager.
• Produce and lead on the implementation plan across BA’s resilience working closely with the Sector Managing Directors, Business Directors, focused on objectives based on safety data trends.
• Lead, direct and manage the HS&W agenda with regards to the implementation of the resilience HS&W strategy.
• Manage interfaces with internal stakeholders including GBA’s, Enabling functions and Corporate HS&W Team.
• Engage with BDs to support and troubleshoot HS&W issues on projects.
• Provide technical and organisational leadership in the country Business Area.
• Support to HS&W country manager and country director.
• Ensure global HS&W strategy and GHSMSS is delivered consistently across the BA through the BA HS&W organization working together with the HS&W country manager and country director.
• Facilitate cross‑business coordination within the BA and support and chair its BA HS&W Team.
• Integrate HS&W with internal stakeholders to ensure involvement and influence in BA level processes and initiatives.
• Motivate leadership and staff to meet HS&W goals and objectives and steward HS&W.

Culture and Behaviours

• Encourage the right health and safety behaviours through engagement and demonstration of the Arcadis values.
• Help develop the cultural and behavioural approach for the UK.

Delivery

• Lead and deliver the safety agenda on large‑scale projects and key client programmes.
• Provide specialised health and safety services to external clients where required.
• Improve client focus to BA resilience offer approach for clients and monitor clients HS&W to stay on top of the market.
• Identify and assess developments in the HS&W arena that may impact the BA.
• Support coordination of HS&W responsibilities so they are assigned and understood when working for clients in BA.
• Engage with internal or external client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project HS&W objectives and to establish protocols for working together.
• Support ensuring that client requirements are communicated to, and understood by, the staff of BA or client team.
• Communicate any client requirements that may need to be considered in establishing global, GBA or national strategy and programmes.
• Assist in ensuring that the appropriate HS&W requirements and standards are identified and implemented on projects and programmes.

Systems

• Develop procedures and safe working practices, keeping them under review and updating where necessary to reflect changes in legislation or best practice.
• Involved in establishing country H&S goals and objectives consistent with the Global H&S strategic direction.
• Establish and agree to key H&S performance targets and possibly financial budgets for the in‑country H&S team in order to optimise business performance in line with set objectives.
• Report progress on country H&S performance based on globally established goals and objectives, identifying and adjusting strategy when targets are lagging.

Risk

• Identify hazards and risks associated with projects, ensuring that the health and safety documentation is in place to manage and control these issues.
• Be involved in the review and identification of project H&S hazards and risks, for input in HASP and HARC at a business unit level.

Assurance

• Undertake assurance activities to ensure H&S compliance within the Business Unit.
• Be responsible for the completion of inspections, audits by team members, ensuring all issues are monitored, closed out and reported.
• Prepare and attend external audits with regard to the conformance with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 in locations certified to the standard.
• Manage H&S issues identified by assurance activities and ensure that actions are closed and communicated across all areas.
• Provide documentation, expertise, and advice on all H&S matters in relation to bidding and business development in the region.

Reporting

• Develop, agree with the GBA and report on leading indicators, in line with HS&W Strategy for the project, ensuring a similar approach across the organisation.
• Monitor SHE performance through SHE data provided and report against objectives and targets.
• Increase cultural health and safety maturity; drive continuous improvement in all aspects of HS&W.
• Be involved in establishing country HS&W goals and objectives consistent with the Global HS&W strategic direction.

Competence and Training

• Be responsible for expert input and advice around Learning and Development with specific regard to resilience HS&W related course content and courses that relate to how Arcadis delivers business.

Innovation

• Work collaboratively with other consultants, contractors and government regulators to roll out leading‑edge developments and best practice.
• Be responsible for identifying and delivering initiatives and campaigns that will support activities and promote health and safety.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Graduate professional status, or equivalent.
• NEBOSH Diploma.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.