Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager

TRIbuild Solutions Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A construction firm is seeking a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager to lead safety practices on a major infrastructure project in Snowdonia. This role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, overseeing incident investigations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Candidates should have a proven track record in a senior safety role within civil engineering or infrastructure and relevant health and safety qualifications. Salary can reach £80,000 with possible car allowance.

Benefits

Car allowance

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• Proven leadership on major civil engineering schemes.
• Experience on tunnelling, underground works, or complex projects.
• Strong working knowledge of health and safety plans.
• Track record of audits, inspections, and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety and sustainability practices across the project.
• Advise project leadership on health and safety responsibilities.
• Conduct regular safety inspections and audits.
• Oversee incident investigations and analyse safety trends.
• Review health and safety documentation and procedures.

Skills

Leadership in health and safety

Health and safety management

Compliance monitoring

Incident investigation

Communication with stakeholders

Education

NEBOSH Construction or equivalent

Job description

Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager, Snowdonia, North Wales

We are recruiting for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager to lead and be accountable for health and safety on a major infrastructure scheme in Snowdonia. The project involves the construction of a new tunnel and the installation of high voltage power cables beneath an estuary, replacing an existing overhead section and reducing visual impact in a protected landscape.

Salary and package

• Salary up to £80,000
• Car allowance available

The role

You will provide leadership across safety, health and sustainability, advising directors, managers and supervisors on their statutory duties, and ensuring robust controls and compliance with company procedures and relevant legislation. You will manage surveillance, audits and inspections, oversee incident investigations, track trends through reporting and statistics, and lead improvement initiatives and campaigns.

Key responsibilities

• Lead best practice across safety, health and sustainability across the project
• Advise and support project leadership to discharge health and safety responsibilities under legislation and company procedures
• Ensure management controls are in place so personnel understand statutory duties and responsibilities
• Drive compliance with company requirements and contract requirements across site teams and the supply chain
• Plan and carry out regular inspections, audits and surveillance, producing actions and recommendations
• Lead and oversee accident and incident investigations, analyse trends, and implement preventative actions
• Collate and review health and safety statistics to identify areas for improvement
• Develop and deliver lessons learned sessions, campaigns and improvement plans
• Prepare and review health and safety documentation including plans, procedures, method statements, and third party submissions
• Provide reports, presentations and information as required
• Ensure compliance with partner KPIs and exercise stop work authority where health and safety controls are in question

Experience required

• Proven leadership on major civil engineering or infrastructure schemes in a senior health and safety role
• Experience on tunnelling, shafts, underground works, heavy civils or similarly complex projects is highly desirable
• Strong working knowledge of health and safety plans and procedures and contractor management
• Track record of delivering audits, inspections and incident investigation processes with clear corrective actions
• Confident engaging with directors, managers, supervisors, contractors and client stakeholders
• Experience managing reporting, statistics, trends and continuous improvement planning
• Comfortable working within a structured health and safety management system and competence systems such as Themis

Qualifications and certifications

• Relevant CSCS card for the role
• Suitable health and safety qualification aligned to a senior construction environment, for example NEBOSH Construction or equivalent
• Professional membership status would be beneficial, for example IOSH

If you would like to be considered, please send your CV and I will come back to you with full project details and next steps.