Senior Health & Safety Manager

Overview

The Senior Health & Safey Manager provides direct operational support to project teams, ensuring health, safety, environment, quality and wellbeing standards are applied consistently on site.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate exceptional H&S leadership at a campus level by your beliefs and behaviours
• Provide support and direction to the Campus Project Director and Project Manager
• Be the interface with the Campus Client and/or their representatives for H&S matters
• Lead and provide line management to a team (2-4) of Campus based H&S Managers
• Assist Head of H&S and Business Unit H&S Manger in roll out of company Strategy
• Ensure consistent implementation of company standards, procedures, policies and expectations; including identifying variances and equivalents needed due to working outside Ireland / UK
• Ensure workplaces receive Health Checks, Inspections and Risk Reviews at specified frequencies and with intrusiveness in accordance with Policy and Direction.

Raise at risk / early intervention concerns to Head of H&S and Business Unit H&S Manger when needed.

• Ensure accidents/incidents are investigated and lessons learnt communicated.
• Monitor Health and Safety performance within the Campus and prepare appropriate reports.
• Prepare a Health and Safety report for the Campus at applicable internals.
• Ensure adequate cover for Health and Safety is provided and alert the BU H&S Manager if this is likely to become a problem.
• Provide main point of contact for enforcement agencies following their visits or investigations.
• Keep up to date with legislation and interpretations thereof to facilitate the provision of competent Health and Safety advice to the business.
• Be aware of own limitations and ensure advise given remains within those limitations. Call in additional support to supplement own abilities where required.
• Identify learning and development requirements for yourself as well as those of staff who report to you
• Coach staff at all levels in Health and Safety expectations and standards

Experience

• Communicate clearly, both orally & in writing
• CMIOSH & member of IEMA (or equivalent)
• At least 12 years in construction industry
• At least 12 years as a Health and Safety professional
• Use influence and empathy for relevant occasions.
• Proficient IT skills
• Have an instinct to anticipate change.
• Show collaboration and consensus in team tasks & client relationships.
• Capacity to stretch performance requirements.
• Monitoring and managing performance.
• Be innovative.
• Interpersonal & engaging skills
• Time Management
• Organisation Skills
• Assertiveness
• Leadership

Qualifications

• Managing & developing direct reports
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
• Member of IEMA or equivalent
• Lead Auditor or equivalent
• Mandatory aspects of Sisk L & D directory.
• Extracurricular exposure to a related Health and Safety specialism e. g. BBS, Occ Health, BIM etc.
• Ideally a qualification in engineering or construction technology / management.
• Awareness of lifting operations: BS 7121/ IS 361 (or in country equivalent).
• Temp Works Awareness
• Incident Investigation Training
• Additional Information
• Competitive salary
• 26 days annual leave
• Pension and benefits
• Unlimited learning and development opportunities
• Much more

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable adjustments are available during the recruitment process.

All recruitment materials comply with legal and regulatory requirements including the EU Pay Transparency Directive and the Equality Acts UK and Ireland.

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