Environment Health And Safety Manager

Brackenberry; England; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Brackenberry Limited in Barnet is seeking an Environment Health and Safety Manager on a 6-month contract to provide strategic leadership across the Environment Directorate, ensuring compliance with legislation and organisational policies. The role covers waste management, street cleansing, grounds maintenance, and contracted services such as parking, highways and street lighting.

You will lead risk assessments, provide expert guidance to directors and operating teams, and ensure effective

Qualifications

• Chartered IOSH membership is essential.
• Continuing professional development in health and safety management.
• Experience leading health and safety across multiple services.

Responsibilities

• Lead health, safety and wellbeing performance across the Environment Directorate.
• Provide authoritative technical advice to directors and teams.
• Oversee risk management for waste, cleansing, grounds maintenance, parking, highways and lighting.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Education

IOSH Chartered Member

CPD in health and safety management

Job description

We are working closely alongside a local authority in Barnet to assist with the appointment of an Environment Health and Safety Manager on a 6-month contract, highly likely to be extended at client’s discretion.

Rate of Pay

£284.64- £374.62 per day

Summary

The Environment Health and Safety Manager will provide strategic leadership and oversight of health, safety and wellbeing across the Environment Directorate, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and organisational policies. The role covers directly delivered services, including waste management, street cleansing and grounds maintenance, as well as contracted services such as parking, highways and street lighting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage health, safety and wellbeing performance across the Environment Directorate, providing assurance and reporting on compliance, risks and improvement activities to senior leadership.
• Act as the lead competent person for environmental health and safety matters, providing authoritative technical advice and guidance to directors, managers and operational teams.
• Provide strategic oversight of health and safety risks associated with waste management, street cleansing, grounds maintenance, parking, highways, street lighting and major projects.
• Ensure managers understand and fulfil their health and safety responsibilities, providing practical guidance and escalating significant unmanaged risks to the Executive Director of Environment when necessary.

Qualifications

• Chartered membership/status with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is essential.
• Relevant professional training and continuing professional development in health and safety management, occupational risk management and environmental compliance.

Essentials

• Experience using and implementing project management techniques to deliver health and safety initiatives and service improvements.
• Knowledge of health and safety management processes and the application of proportionate risk management.
• Experience undertaking complex risk assessments and developing effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Experience providing professional guidance and addressing workplace health and safety concerns at different organisational levels.

Please Note

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires a Basic DBS

Equality and contract nature

We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

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