Health and Safety Lead

Irwin & Colton; Radlett; On-site; GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing Principal Contractor in Radlett is seeking a Health and Safety Lead to implement and improve health and safety strategies across residential projects. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in health and safety, ideally within construction, and hold the NEBOSH Certificate. This role offers a salary of £75,000 plus excellent benefits and the chance to work in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role within construction or civil engineering.
• Experience operating at site influencing stakeholders.
• Desire to work within a tight-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Assist and coach contractors on health and safety strategy delivery.
• Conduct incident investigations and make recommendations.
• Audit and report on health and safety performance.
• Assess health and safety improvements and share best practices.

Skills

Experience in health and safety strategy

Incident investigation

Auditing skills

Stakeholder engagement

Health and safety improvements

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ5 (or equivalent)

Job description

Health and Safety Lead

Radlett, Hertfordshire | £75,000 + Excellent Benefits

Irwin and Colton have been engaged by a growing and dynamic Principal Contractor and developer to recruit a Health and Safety Lead. The company have a number of residential development projects in London and the Home Counties. Reporting into the Operations Director this role is tasked with working with the site management and business leaders to continue the excellent base already established in health and safety.

Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Lead will include:

• Assisting, advising and coaching contractors to ensure they can achieve the efficient and effective delivery of the health and safety strategy
• Conducting incident investigations to identify root cause and making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence
• Auditing and reporting on health and safety performance
• Constantly assessing opportunities for health and safety improvements and sharing best practice across the organisation

The successful Health and Safety Lead will have:

• Proven experience in a similar role ideally within construction or civil engineering or a related industry - ideally with some residential construction experience
• Experience operating at site influencing and engaging key stakeholders
• Hold the NEBOSH Certificate and ideally hold or working towards the NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ5 (or equivalent)
• The desire and ability to work within a very tight-knit team and work collaboratively to improve health and safety

This position will require an individual who is passionate about health and safety and high performance. For further information or to discuss your career, contact James Irwin on or 01923 432 632.

Irwin and Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company, based in the South East of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health and safety Director through to Health and Safety Advisor positions.

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