Health and Safety Manager

Kier Group plc.; Cheswick Green; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager to oversee a major higher education construction project. This role requires significant experience in the construction industry with a strong focus on health and safety management, promoting behavioral safety programs, and leading project teams. Applicants should have substantial qualifications including CMIOSH and a NEBOSH Diploma. The company values diversity and aims to create an inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health and safety within the construction industry.
• Proficient in behavioral safety management.
• Strong management skills focused on project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Act as the point of contact for the Project Team regarding health, safety, and wellbeing.
• Promote the Business Stream HSW Strategy and measure successes.
• Conduct Project HSW Reports, Audits, Inspections, and Incident investigations.

Skills

Health and safety management

Behavioral safety programs

Communication

Risk management

Leadership

Education

Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH)

NEBOSH / IOSH Lv6 Diploma

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

CSCS Card

Job description

We're looking for a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager for our Strategic Projects UK construction operations. The Heath Safety and Wellbeing Manager will be aligned with a major new build, higher education project in a role that will lead on ensuring that bahavoural health and safety is engrained across our people and supply chain on what will be a £100M+ campus., Working on the project from pre construction through delivery the HS&W manager will be a key part of the project team.

• Provides the point of contact and conduit for the Project Team and Supply Chain, the Project Director, the Strategic Projects Senior Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Manager and Construction & Engineering Director.
• Actively promote the Business Stream HSW Strategy and its objectives as well deliver overall key performance indicators, measure successes, and drive continual improvement in HSW on the Project.
• Coordinates compilation of the project HSW reports, dissemination of these to the Snr HSW Manager and the Project Director.
• Brief the Project Senior Leadership Team & Senior Management Team with monthly updates on matters of health, safety and wellbeing.
• Ensure regular communication on all Health, Safety, and Wellbeing issues from Kier Construction are relayed to the Project Team.
• Undertake Project HSW Reports, Audits, Inspection and Incident investigations to ensure the quality of reporting, corrective actions are assigned and closed in a timely manner, lessons learnt are produced as well as uphold the basic principles as set out in the Operating Procedures and Control Standards for the project.

  The HSW Manager will be able to demonstrate competence with significant experience in the construction industry safety, health, and wellbeing within a similar Tier 1 construction business working on major projects in a similar role with a good understanding of the principles of risk management at a practical level, preferably as a Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH). NEBOSH / IOSH Lv6 Diploma

• CSCS Card
• Driving Licence, A great communicator and a proven ability to build positive working relationships at site level
• A demonstrable understanding of behavioural safety to enable you to promote our behavioural safety program "Think Safety Differently"
• Strong management skills focused on project leadership to add value to the overall team
• Able to build positive working relationships with the project supply chain
• Competent and experienced manager of challenging scenarios
• Forward thinking by sharing ideas and challenging standard practices
• Ability to manage own workload, and prioritise accordingly
• Keen to drive efficiencies through continuous improvement on the project
• Ability to train others in in-house HSW Awareness courses
• Proficient skills in standard Microsoft Office 365
• Driving Licence

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.