Senior Construction Manager in Hemel Hempstead

As the Senior Manager, Construction Safety, you will be reporting to the Senior Director, Construction Safety, responsible for developing, monitoring, and enforcing the corporate-wide personnel safety, environmental, health and regulatory management programs. This position has the responsibility for multi-jurisdiction compliance programs and able to lead the company to world-class levels of personnel safety and environmental compliance.

Safety: This position administers, directs, and monitors compliance with the company safety program to ensure company and project safety goals are met. This includes the authority and ability to change and/or adjust work procedures to ensure the safety of affected employees, clients, contractors, and subcontractors.

Environmental: The EHS Engineer consults, directs, and manages all aspects of environmental compliance including construction and operations activities in support of air, water and solid waste regulation and permitting. This role has a few direct reports within EMEA and requires you to travel up to 75% at times, mostly across EMEA.

What you will do:

• Develop, organize, and implement Environmental Health and Safety programs that meet or exceed local, regional, and national regulatory compliance standards, along with NTT corporate value statements.
• Oversee the creation, publication and maintenance of the corporate safety policy, safe work practices, and associated procedural documentation.
• Assess current safety programs for compliance and effectiveness, and to identify specific areas and means of improvement.
• Administer, direct, and manage compliance with the company Illness and Injury Prevention Program and accident prevention efforts.
• Coordinate and participate in regulatory agency inspections and investigations to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
• Initiate, perform, and document jobsite inspections and audits with special emphasis on hazard recognition and identifying unsafe behaviours in data centers and at construction sites with contractors onsite safety team.
• Schedule, coordinate, and conduct safety meetings and training programs to ensure the effective communication of company policy and safety standards. Maintain records of employee safety training through the company or a third party.
• Review job hazard assessments and recommend measures to control exposures, including substitution of less hazardous materials, use of PPE (personal protective equipment), work practice changes and engineering controls.
• Ensure injury reports are completed promptly and accurately. Conduct injury prevention meetings, recommend appropriate corrective actions, etc. in response to significant injuries.

What we are looking for:

• Working knowledge of regional regulatory standards to include National, local and US OSHA regulations.
• Demonstrated competency as well as experience in EH&S compliance programs in the construction industry.
• Ability to lead contractors in pursuit of environmental permitting for construction projects and operational facilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills; professional and tactful with ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Strong proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Comfortable working in a highly critical, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Ability to make independent judgments to manage and facilitate company programs/policies as they relate to the safety of our work.
• Bachelor's degree in environmental health and safety or equivalent education and/or combined work experience in a related field.
• Nationally Recognized Health and Safety certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Certified Safety Management Specialist (CSMS) preferred.
• Candidate must be fluent in the English language.

What we offer you:

• An agile company culture with short decision-making paths and plenty of opportunities to show personal initiative.
• Flexible working time models and mobile working (depending on your role).
• Allowance for the use of public transport and job bikes.
• Allowance for the use of health and wellness.
• Individual training and development opportunities.
• Numerous other additional benefits such as birthday vouchers, employee advisory program, employee referral scheme, lunch allowance, company events, etc.

Note: Please submit your application in English. We look forward to hearing from you!