Health Safety and Wellbeing Director

Costain; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure solutions company in Greater London is seeking an experienced HSW Director. The role involves setting HSW requirements, leading the health & safety culture, and implementing effective strategies aligned with industry standards. Applicants should have significant SHE experience, ideally within large-scale programmes or Joint Ventures. This position plays a crucial role in maintaining compliance and reporting on health & safety matters. A SHE Diploma is essential, and CMIOSH accreditation is desired.

Qualifications

• Significant SHE-related experience including management and leadership experience.
• Working towards CMIOSH or MIEMA or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in a complex large-scale programme or business.
• Previous experience of working within a Joint Venture or at board level.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and embed a visionary HSW strategy for the project.
• Lead, champion and enhance health & safety culture.
• Act as the main focal point for all HSW activities.
• Report the project HSW performance to the client.

Skills

SHE-related experience

Leadership

Strategic Skills

Energy & Drive

Personal & Interpersonal Skills

Education

SHE Diploma or equivalent/NVQ level 6

Job description

Job Description

The HSW Director is responsible for:

• Setting HSW requirements and providing guidance and assurance; developing a culture and behaviours to promote HSW throughout the design and delivery organisation. Maintain HSW rigour throughout the delivery process, with a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensuring all HSW aspects of the project are compliant.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and embed a visionary HSW strategy for the Project in line with industry best practice and incorporate into the Project’s plans, aims and objectives.
• Lead, champion and enhance the health & safety culture of the project.
• Lead and manage HSW for the Project, creating a learning culture by identifying and implementing best practice in accordance with high standards of SCS JV governance. Effectively promote and communicate the HSW strategy across the Project.
• Implement a consistent and standardised approach to all HSW activities and maintain a high level of control.
• Develop a competent and professional HSW team capable of delivering the SCS JV requirements.
• Act as the main central focal point for all HSW activities within the SCS JV.
• Maintain effective reporting systems and report to the IPLT on all HSW matters.
• Promote teamwork and support a culture of corporate accountability throughout the organization.
• Ensure investigations are properly conducted and learning is shared and applied.
• Report the project HSW performance to the client and to the parent companies.
• Ensure all HSW standards and legislations are adhered to at all times.
• Ensure the HSW requirements of the hybrid bill and further 3rd party agreements are adhered at all times.

Statutory Duties

• Exercise independent judgement.
• Maintain awareness and knowledge of appropriate UK legislation.
• Ensure that the SCS JV HSW reporting complies with the Companies Act regulations and HSE legislation.
• Use judgement to assess the likely consequences of any decision in the long term.
• Assess the impact of the SCS JV operations on the community and the environment.

Corporate Governance

• Lead by example in respect of Corporate Governance and champion its mandatory compliance across the business.
• Foster the SCS JV business relationships with suppliers, customers, and others.
• Ensure that all those within your remit and control follow the correct processes and procedures particularly in respect of the support infrastructure, including HR, Finance, Commercial, Internal Audit etc.

Strategy

• Work closely with the IPLT to formulate SCS JV HSW Strategy in line with the strategy of the project.
• Chair the project HSW meetings and, thereby, ensure key issues are addressed, performance monitored, targets set, and best practice disseminated.

HSW

• Develop a detailed action plan to achieve HSW objectives, ensuring that the project plans contribute to the achievement of these objectives, and monitor the actions taken.
• Effectively communicate HSW activities and issues at all levels.
• Implement a set of HSW policies, procedures, manuals and guides that are consistent with good practice and are workable. Continuously review and improve these.
• Champion the accurate reporting of all injuries, ill health, and dangerous occurrences.
• Ensure an effective, consistent, and cost‑effective provision of HSW training.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Significant SHE‑related experience including management and leadership experience.
• Working towards CMIOSH or MIEMA or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in a complex large‑scale programme or business.
• Previous experience of working within a Joint Venture or at board level.

Desirable

• Extensive relevant SHE experiences in construction/engineering industry, including extensive management and training of others experience.
• CMIOSH or MIEMA or equivalent.

Key Behaviours and attributes

• Strategic Skills – Innovative Management / Strategic Agility.
• Operating Skills – Priority Setting.
• Energy & Drive – Drive for results / Perseverance.
• Personal & Interpersonal Skills – Ethics and Values / Integrity and Trust / Motivating others.

Additional attributes

• Forward thinking, leading‑edge challenging, leading by example, integrity, gravitas, encouraging / perseverance, confident, assured, sharing (knowledge), coaching.

Qualifications

Essential

• SHE Diploma or equivalent/NVQ level 6.

Desirable

• SHE Degree.
• CMIOSH.
• Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5.
• Line Managers toolkit or equivalent.
• Commercial Awareness.
• Programme/Project management.

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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