Senior Health & Safety Consultant in Birmingham

The Construction Health and Safety Team is an expanding group of technically skilled specialists at Ridge. We specialise in the provision of the fullest range of health and safety advice for the construction sector. We work across a range of businesses and in sectors as diverse as commercial, healthcare, science, industry, energy, and education.

The role is Senior H&S Consultant within the Birmingham H&S team, leading on delivery of CDM and construction health and safety services to clients. You will be required to independently offer H&S/CDM services and be confident dealing with various stakeholders to deliver projects and help ensure compliance with the duties of the CDM regulations 2015.

You will be a key member of this close-knit team. Your knowledge and skills will contribute to the growth and success of this developing and growing team as we work together to deliver robust solutions to meet our clients’ health and safety objectives, aims and aspirations.

What you need to do to be effective in this role:

• Capability to offer a variety of health & safety/ CDM services to a diverse client base.
• Familiarity with all associated documentation relating to CDM 2015 e.g. CPPs, PCIs, H&S file etc. and ensure that the documents are updated on a regular basis.

In This Role You Will Be:

• Liaising with various stakeholders on projects: client, principal contractor, architect, design team and keeping them updated in relation to H&S/ CDM matters.
• Carrying out site inspections/compliance audits and accident investigations when required.
• Developing existing client relationships and building new ones.

Role Responsibilities:

• Work primarily on CDM commissions.
• Commercial awareness - repeat and new business opportunities and to escalate these to senior management.
• Awareness of the value of, and starting to grow, a network of contacts is also important.
• High technical and commercial standards must be established and maintained as quality of work and ‘added value’ for our clients are priorities.
• Under supervision, the role includes the ability to contribute to and develop bid submissions and fee proposals.
• Being aware of new work opportunities and potential new clients, as well as maintenance of existing clients.
• You will need to work closely with all members of the firm who could be either clients or collaborators.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role:

• Communication skills (verbal and written) requirements: Written communication involves reports, pre-construction information and health & safety files. Verbal communication involves attendance at meetings and client facing discussions.
• Presentation skills for bid pitch and training provision.
• IT Skills: Ability to use SharePoint and other technology as required by the business/clients. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Personal Characteristics Required:

• Scope of Role and Impact: Requires limited supervision to contribution.
• Role model and mentor to others.
• Take on wider responsibility and accountability for driving projects while communicating effectively.

Technical or Functional Expertise:

• Ability to be flexible in balancing health and safety risks with cost and programme whilst maintaining legal compliance.
• An appetite for self-development and learning.
• Confident application of academic learning.
• Proactively apply the techniques learned.

What You Deliver:

• Arrange work to fit team goals.
• Professional and responsive with clients.

How You Deliver:

• Clear about personal contribution to team.
• Have a plan and direction for development.
• Positively provide feedback to colleagues.
• You are generous with time.
• Adapt own ideas in response to feedback and requests.