Health & Safety Manager

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Benefits:

• Salary starting from £63,000.00 per annum, plus a guaranteed monthly bonus of 8.65%
• Travel and lodge allowance
• Working 9 days across 2 weeks (Monday - Friday on week one, then Monday - Thursday on week two)
• Annual leave of 25 days per year, plus bank holidays
• Life assurance scheme
• Company sick pay
• Pension Scheme 5% employer contribution
• Access to an industry leading Employee Benefits Platform offering lifestyle savings and discounts on most high street retailers
• A Reward and Recognition programme
• Employee Assistance Programme that provides a health and wellbeing support service
• Employee Referral Scheme

Accountabilities:

• Managing a team of H&S advisors, using experience in recruitment, training and HR fundamentals
• Ownership and focal point of the HPC site safety platform (Insight) on behalf of Wilson James
• Working in collaboration with the Environmental Manager and their team
• Accountable for managing the Health, Safety and Environmental Performance Indicators, ensuring they are completed in full and submitted every month
• Responsible for safety performance and reporting accidents and incidents on the Notify software (Wilson James)
• Delegated as the WJ project Fire Safety Office, ensuring all WJ Fire Safety Plans are valid, in place and reviewed to meet permit acceptance
• Responsible for reviewing all WJ RAMS and SSOW, ensuring mandatory site SSOW are in place and compliant
• Responsible for working with the WJ Quality team, ensuring WJ align with the permit requirements for HPC, monitoring performance and supporting additional training
• Identifying employee and project training requirements and safety information
• Active participation in selected inductions and briefings
• Participate in WJ Logistics internal safety audits to underwrite safety culture and reporting
• Ensure you are fully conversant with the WJ Logistics scope documents and the location of the activities
• Monitor and improve the standards of WJ teams, putting employees to work, Point of Work Risk Assessment activities and Insight reporting
• Ensure the Health and Safety Compliance Standards of the HPC project are met
• Engage your team collaboratively with the other Tier 1 site integrated H&S teams
• Carry out all duties with full regard to all policies, plans and procedures relevant to the WJ T1 contract
• Share and record best practices and lessons learnt, experience and site issues to allow for continuous improvement
• Responsible for ensuring WJ and Site Occupational Health standards are maintained, and performance is measured
• Responsible for ensuring the WJ and Site Well Being policy has been implemented and reviewed
• Primary investigatory authority when unsafe practices are observed or safety incidents occur (including near-misses)
• Manage documentation in line with WJ site quality procedures
• Manage a formal H&S inspection plan for all managers and leads
• Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager
• Work in accordance with WJ and HPC Values

Qualifications Required:

• NEBOSH qualification - preferably general certificate or construction certificate
• CITB H&S test pass certificate for Managers & Professionals

Desirable:

• IOSH Qualification - Ideally member or equivalent
• CSCS Card (professional card - white)
• Knowledge of HPC Site Fire Qualification or experience in fire duties
• SMSTS
• Full UK Driving License

Experience:

• Experience managing a team of H&S professionals
• Strong working knowledge of Health and Safety regulations, specific to the construction industry logistics activities
• Strong construction or engineering background
• Demonstrate experience and knowledge of safety in plant and vehicle operations
• Experience working in a multi-disciplined safety-critical environment
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, able to communicate at all levels
• IT literate - Strong electronic communication, spreadsheet, and presentation skills, and competent with all Microsoft Office packages
• An understanding of the principles of equality and diversity in relation to visitors' and employees'

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.