Health & Safety Advisor

GMC Utilities Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

GMC Utilities Group is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to support projects across the business from a HSE perspective. The role emphasizes strong safety culture, compliance, reporting, and documentation.

You will contribute to site safety, manage risk, and help drive improvements in safety performance. The successful candidate will be proactive, able to work independently or as part of the HSQE team, and committed to maintaining high standards of health, safety and environmental

Qualifications

• Full clean driver’s license is essential.
• A 3rd level qualification in Health and Safety is desirable.
• Experience in civils, drainage or utilities (water & electricity).

Responsibilities

• Provide health and safety training to employees including toolbox talks and inductions.
• Conduct safety inspections and audits to ensure compliance.
• Develop and implement HSE policies, procedures and risk assessments.
• Maintain HSE KPIs and drive continuous improvement in safety practices.
• Coordinate H&S systems with site management and contractors.

Skills

Health & Safety knowledge

Training & facilitation

Communication skills

Time management

Risk assessment

Auditing & inspections

Education

Third level qualification in Health and Safety

Job description

Are you looking to become part of a collaborative team whilst maximising your potential to grow and develop within your career?

The Role.

GMC are currently looking for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join our team.The successful Health and Safety Advisor will be supporting the delivery of projects across all aspects of the business from a Health and Safety point of view. A strong ethos on health and safety, compliance, reporting, and documentation are essential qualities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Provide health and safety training to employees including but not limited to manual handling, toolbox talks and safety induction.
• Previous experience conducting safety inspections and audits.
• Approaches accident prevention and protection of the environment in a positive manner with the ability to initiate and maintain this positive manner with effective and efficient measures to raise safety, health and environmental standards and awareness.
• Assist in the preparation of reports on occurrences and provide statistical information to management.
• Implement the company’s health, safety and environmental policy, procedures, and management systems.
• Assist in the maintenance of Health & Safety KPIs to help drive improvement in all related matters.
• Support management in the development of H&S procedures, policies, and programs.
• Work as part of the HSQE team to ensure the provision of a safe and productive work environment.
• Always seek to improve the standard of Health & Safety in a practical manner within the company management system and on specific sites.
• Monitor and enforce the implementation of Health & Safety Management System.
• Identify site specific hazards and ensure they are addressed in the site documentation and in a practical manner on the site.
• Ensure clear lines of communication are maintained to the H&S Manager.
• Ensure the site folders and statutory records are being maintained.
• Ensure strict adherence to site rules by all.
• Assist site management to comply with statutory H&S requirements.
• Assist Health & Safety Manager to develop and implement Risk assessments and improvements to the Safe Systems of Work.
• Assist H&S Manager and Site management to coordinate the safe systems of work for all.
• Carry out H&S auditing on site and address non-conformances as they are identified with site management and contractors.
• Contribute to accident and incident investigation.
• Identify training needs on site for GMC personnel and contractors.
• Ad hoc tasks as needed by the wider business.

The Candidate: Required Experience and Competencies:

• Full clean driver’s license essential.
• A 3rdlevel qualification in Health and Safety is desirable.
• Civils, drainage or utilities (water & electricity) experience.
• Confident, motivated and can work independently as well as part of a team.
• Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines.
• Time management abilities to meet targets.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• Integrity and respect for confidentiality and privacy.
• Strong relationship builder and ability to leverage key relationships across the full spectrum of project stakeholders and statutory bodies.
• Ability to manage risk and implement control measures.
• Able to work and build strong relationships with contractors from various backgrounds and trades.

Become a part of something bigger.

At the heart of GMC is our people, from engineers through to customer service and we aim to work collaboratively towards our common goals.

GMC is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to recruit and retain like-minded people from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of expertise. If you require any specific accommodations, we will make every reasonable effort to support you throughout the recruitment and selection process.

In GMC we foster a work culture that promotes collaboration and learning, building an environment where our people have the capacity to maximise their potential whilst gaining the opportunity to continuously develop.

Our Future.

Since the founding of GMC in 1981 by Gerry McCloskey, GMC has grown to be Ireland’s leading Civils and Utilities company and the future for GMC is bright. We have engaged with our staff and other stakeholders to agree and publish our core values.

One of our core values is to“Focus on the Future”.

Our growth to date reflects the confidence that our customers have in our service delivery, in the innovative approach that we bring to how we do our work, and to our culture of safety and quality.

We have ambitious plans to develop our footprint in Ireland and overseas but understand that every decision we make contributes to people’s quality of life throughout generations, and we don't take that responsibility lightly as we build Ireland’s infrastructure of tomorrow, today.