Health, Safety & Environment Manager

This role sits within the Europe region and will work with a variety of stakeholders at all levels, both centrally and in our Europe operations and construction teams, to develop and implement, maintain and improve the health, safety and environmental management within all operations across the region (including construction sites and operations sites).

Job Description

1. Implement and maintain frameworks to support and enhance the HSE management within the organisation.
2. Ensure compliance with relevant HSE legislation across the Europe region, maintain and audit against the legal database.
3. Ensure Colt DCS minimum standards are maintained and audit against internal standards.
4. Work closely with the HSE Director and other team members to develop, maintain and improve DCS operational and construction standards.
5. Drive consistency, sustainability and effectiveness in the management of HSE functions and processes that are revised and improved based on leading performance monitoring, audits and external evaluations.
6. Support the interface between construction and operations to ensure that HSE is correctly transitioned from a project’s construction phase to a live facility.
7. Assist the HSE Director to develop, prepare and plan for ISO 45001 Certification.
8. Assist the HSE Director to maintain ISO 14001 and expand to new sites.
9. Liaise with the certification body and internal stakeholders to arrange external audits.
10. Develop and maintain HSE management system documents to support the planning and implementation process.
11. Support customer requests and attend meetings and customer audits; maintain good working relationships with customer (HSE) personnel.
12. Play an integral role in the team and provide support and statistics to colleagues to help identify trends and implement improvement plans.
13. Develop a positive team culture through achievement of results, teamwork, development, accountability, competency and professionalism.
14. Support the creation and delivery of internal training programmes and subject specific initiatives aligned to the development and roll-out of management system elements and statutory requirements.
15. Administration of database systems including HSE communication sites and preparation of documents for issue.
16. Conduct workplace inspections, produce inspection reports, and develop action plans as and when required.
17. Ensure any actions arising from audits, risk assessments or inspections are closed-out.
18. Maintain accident and incident records and undertake investigations as required.
19. Assist with organisation and administration of HSE campaigns.
20. To perform additional duties within the scope of the position as requested by the HSE Director.

Minimum Requirements

1. 10+ years’ experience in a similar HSE role ideally within data centre (or similar) construction projects or large-scale engineering environments.
2. Experience of working in both construction and operational environments.
3. Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
4. Fluent in both French and English languages.
5. Good knowledge of HSE legislation and CDM (including EU Directives).
6. Experience at developing and implementing management systems in line with ISO 45001 and 14001.
7. Ability to write technical documentation to a high standard.
8. Incident Investigation Experience.
9. Audit against international standards and global company standards.
10. Proven track record of working with diverse multi-country teams.
11. Ability to adapt and guide teams through dynamically changing environments.
12. Willing to travel to European sites.
13. Exceptional attention to detail with a passion for quality and accuracy.
14. Excellent computer literacy with specific proficiency in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
15. Additional European language an advantage.
16. Chartered Membership of IOSH an advantage.
17. Relevant BSc or MSc (Occupational Health, Safety and Environment), NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent).