Currently recruiting for an experienced civil Health and Safety Manager to join a large tier 1 civils project.
To be considered you will need to meet the following criteria
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of H&S and Occupational Health and Hygiene Advisors to support all construction and civil engineering activities.
- Understand the Companies Policies and Procedures and statutory requirements as they affect the operations and ensure that the requirements are implemented.
- Liaise with Emergency Service personnel in the preparedness of emergency rescue, response and incident management relating to civil engineering work
- Manage the Occupational Health and Hygiene function within the company ensuring appropriate support is available for the scope of works associated with tunnelling and civil engineering activities
- Provide professional specialist H&S advice to project delivery and management teams including monitoring the implementation of parent company and client policies, standards and procedures.
- Ensure that Inspection and reporting of H&S standards on site is in line with company and customer requirements. Mentor and assist project teams on standards of project H&S inspection and corrective action
- Assist the delivery teams and H&S Director in preparing and developing the Framework and worksite Construction Phase Plan (CPP) and coordinate reviews.
- Facilitate H&S cascades and briefing of information including delivery of awareness and training programmes
- Liaise with supply chain to monitor and improve performance in support of Transformational Safety philosophy
- To support the H&S function in the development and implementation of Integrated Management Systems and their continual improvement
- When directed, assist with the preparation of H&S risk assessments and Method Statements, Work Package Plans (WPP's) and Task Briefing Sheets (TBS)
- Assist in the preparation and implementation of H&S training courses, as directed.
- Incident investigation and management of the reporting process in support of project’s delivery, management and H&S teams
- Maintain own level of knowledge and competency in relation to H&S management and responsibilities including appropriate qualification and professional membership
- Support worksite teams in the provision of information and project data to H&S Databases
Behaviours, Skills & Experience:
- Previous experience of health and safety within the tunnelling civil engineering sector and in particular Bridge, Viaduct and ground engineering works
- Specific knowledge and understanding of emergency and rescue procedures
- An up to date knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation and the application of accepted industry health and safety standards
- Good written skills and the ability to prepare technical inspection reports, audit reports and documents for the submission of information to the client and external organisations
- Previous experience in conducting indecent investigations to a high standard including the utilisation of incident reporting software including root cause analysis
- It Skills, Microsoft office suite, online data bases.