Health And Safety Officer

• Do you have at least 3 years’ experience as a H&S Officer within the Civil Engineering / Construction / Rail industry?
• Do you take pride in your investigations, audits and reporting to ensure full compliance and accuracy?
• Are you a proactive person, who will support and engage with our operational & functional teams, as well as providing professional advice to our senior management teams to help minimise risks?

If so, this may be the role for you…

Role and Responsibilities:

We are looking for a knowledgeable Health & Safety Officer to join our team. In this role you will provide advisory, compliance monitoring, and inspection services to all employees, managers and directors, ensuring that risks are minimised, and CML operates within legislative requirements, regulations, and codes of practice.

You will offer expert advice on health & safety legislation and statutory frameworks to all employees. You will conduct a program of audits to ensure compliance, and compile detailed reports with findings, lessons learned, and future requirements.

The role involves collaborating with managers to investigate accidents or incidents, so the ability to communicate well and influence is essential. You will collate and analyse data from audits, inspections, close calls and reports to inform future activity planning, and assisting in reviewing and updating health & safety policies, procedures, and guidelines. You will support employee wellbeing and direct managers to appropriate resources, work alongside team members to share good practices and specialist knowledge, and undertake special projects as directed by the Health & Safety Manager and Director.

You must have NEBOSH construction or general certificate as minimum qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience, knowledge, and skills. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with team members are also essential.

You should have current knowledge of health & safety regulatory requirements, legislation, frameworks, and policies, and an understanding of relevant national and regional policy and legislation relating to health and safety in the civil engineering, construction and rail industry.

Experience working in the civil engineering, construction and rail industry sector is essential, as is knowledge in a specialist area such as noise, vibration etc. Membership of a relevant professional body is also a plus.

Person Specification

Requirements include:

• NEBOSH Construction or General
• At least 3 years in a similar role
• Civil Engineering / Construction / Rail Experience essential
• Strong report writing skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Knowledge and experience in drafting and implementing risk assessments
• Nationwide Site visits & inspections

Package:

• Competitive Pay
• A collaborative and friendly working culture, focussed on investing in people
• Up to 25 days holiday + Statutory Bank Holidays
• Company Sick Pay
• Annual professional subscription costs
• Excellent training & development opportunities, provided by our award nominated in house Training team
• Paid Volunteering days and Charity events
• Eye test vouchers & Annual Flu Jabs
• Employee Assistance Programmes for advice and counselling
• Access to a committed Mental Health First Aider team
• Company Pension and Death in Service scheme
• A generous Employee Referral scheme of £1,000 per successful hire

At CML we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and all applicants will be considered purely on their merits and potential, regardless of where they are from, their age or gender, their lifestyle choices , their beliefs or what disability they may have.

We’re also striving to be a Disability Confident employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities apply and interview for roles.