Environment Health and Safety Manager (Hybrid)

Essential Employment; Edgware; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Employment is seeking an Environment Health and Safety Manager for a Hybrid role in Barnet. The position reports to the Executive Director of Environment and focuses on compliance, risk management and improvement across the health and safety portfolio.

The role leads on regulatory responses, maintains ISO 14001 systems and provides expert advice to senior management while overseeing audits, training delivery and incident investigations.

Qualifications

• Lead the organisation’s EHS programme and act as the competent person for Environment, Health and Safety matters.
• Provide strategic oversight of EHS risks across operations and major projects.
• Lead responses to regulatory inspections and environmental incidents.
• Develop and maintain accredited management systems (e.g., ISO 14001) and support audits.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for EHS performance and assurance reporting to the Executive Director.
• Offer authoritative advice on health and safety to senior management and directors.
• Plan, conduct workplace inspections and internal audits in line with client policy.
• Deliver health, safety and wellbeing training and lead contractor health and safety assurance.

Skills

EHS Management

Audits & Compliance

Regulatory Compliance

ISO 14001

Incident Investigation

Job description

Environment Health and Safety Manager (Hybrid) needed in Barnet, £285.64 per dayPAYE – Reference: OR119862

2 to 3 days per week in the office

• Accountable for Environment Directorate health and safety performance and assurance, reporting directly to the Executive Director of Environment on compliance, risk and improvement activity.
• Act as the organisation’s lead competent person for Environment, Health and Safety matters, providing authoritative advice to senior management and directors.
• Provide strategic oversight of EHS risks associated with operational service delivery and major projects.
• Lead the organisation’s response to regulatory inspections, enforcement notices, prosecutions and environmental incidents.
• Hold managers within the directorate accountable for their responsibilities for health and safety duties, providing guidance and practical solutions to ensure legal compliance and best practice in line with management system.
• Authority to elevate significant unmanaged risks directly to the Executive Director of Environment where statutory compliance cannot be demonstrated.
• Maintain and develop accredited management systems, such as ISO 14001, and lead external accreditation audits.
• Act as key subject matter expert for implementation of a health and safety information management system.
• Provide technical health and safety expertise into contract management meetings for externally delivered services within Environment.
• Provide health and safety input into key Environment transformation projects.
• Provide leadership on the health, safety and wellbeing aspects of business and service plans.
• Undertake specific assessments on more complex or specific technical issues, where required, provide mitigation strategies and support.
• Line management of Street Scene Health and Safety Officer.
• Ensure all accidents/incidents/near misses are properly reported internally and externally where necessary, and investigated, in accordance with internal policy and legislation.
• Plan, develop and conduct workplace inspections and internal audits in line with client policy and procedures.
• Develop, deliver, co-ordinate and evaluate health, safety and wellbeing related training.
• Be responsible for delivering allocated projects.
• Make and implement recommendations to ensure compliance, best practice and safe and healthy work activities/ environment, enable corrective action to be implemented.
• Identify gaps in existing health and safety policies, and assist in researching, developing, implementing, communicating, consulting, monitoring and reviewing the new/ revised policies, procedures and safe systems.
• Implement and monitor the risk assessment and incident management system/ process across the organisation.
• To review, analyse, and interpret performance data/trends and produce statistics and reports. Findings to be communicated to Directors and senior managers identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Stay up-to-date with any changes in legislation/ new initiatives/ best practice and provide recommendations on areas for improvement.
• Act as the strategic lead for contractor health and safety assurance across Highways, Parking, Street Lighting and other commissioned Environment services.
• Perform related duties as assigned, within your scope of practice
• Lead investigations into significant injuries, dangerous occurrences, environmental breaches and regulatory interventions.

This is a full time role on a Temporary contract basis.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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