Senior Health & Safety Manager in Exeter

Bouygues UK is a leading construction and property development company in the United Kingdom. It is part of Bouygues Construction which employs 35,600 people around the world, all driven by the greatest and most exciting responsibility of all – building for life.

We have a fantastic opportunity to work on an exciting project in Exeter. The project is a large scale (~£185M) and long term (3-year duration) student accommodation scheme, comprising of 6 new-build blocks and a refurbishment of an existing block.

Job Purpose And Scope

To set and drive the businesses Health and Safety strategy with the Head of Health and Safety.

Accountabilities And Key Tasks

• Ensure Health and Safety is a key priority on the project.
• Develop a corporate culture and level of performance that delivers the requirements of our business policies and related objectives.
• Develop and ensure the effective implementation of business H&S improvement stages.
• Develop the management system to a standard that meets legal compliance and, SO14001: 2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007, including processes that create ongoing continuous improvement.
• Liaise with external third party management system certification bodies, ensuring an ongoing good relationship and the best cost‑effective solutions re: certifications.
• Establish and maintain arrangements for the business to be kept up to date with changes in legislation and best practice.
• Ensure continued commitment to develop as a professional in the fields of H&S.
• Report to the regional management team on our performance regards H&S.
• Liaise with relevant enforcement authorities regarding any legal matters related to compliance.
• Manage resource to a competent standard and control allocated budgets to ensure our financial targets are achieved.
• Ensure audits are carried out within the business to ensure standards are compliant and reports to Excom are produced.
• Ensure H&S performance data is recorded, measured and evaluated with reports issued to the business.
• Ensure accidents/incidents/defects are investigated and bulletins issued to ensure lessons are learned.
• Ensure the annual management review is carried out with reports issued to both the regional leadership team and the Head of Health and Safety.
• Complete annual awards submissions as required by the business to ensure our market profile is highly visible.
• Ensure the effective internal communications of health, safety, environmental performance and lessons to be learnt to promote a high level of awareness and constant learning.
• Liaise with the Human Resources Department to ensure standards of competence for staff are identified and training programmes put in place to achieve the required standards.
• Liaise with Head of Procurement and supply chain to ensure arrangements are in place to ensure suppliers are deemed competent for use.
• Liaise with the Legal Department in regard to the management of SHE related claims being made against the business.
• Liaise with all relevant departments with regards to health related policy formulation, initiatives and management arrangements.

Essential Requirements

• Previous H&S experience within the construction industry.
• Results driven with good communication skills.

Desirable Qualifications

• IOSH NEBOSH

Benefits

Day in day out our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture, we look for people who demonstrate our key values – Respect, Commitment, Pioneering, Sharing. We offer competitive basic salaries coupled with generous company benefits including:

• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits
• Volunteering opportunities

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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