Handover Lead (Health and Safety)

Purpose of the Job

Coordinate the completion and approval of the consolidated Health and Safety Files in order to facilitate a timely handover of elements.

Principal Accountabilities

• Maintain a digital record of the current completion status of Health and Safety Files to facilitate tracking of progress and issues
• Act as an interface point between Infrastructure Managers (IM) and Tier 1 contractors driving the resolution of problems
• Facilitate, assist and drive to completion the preparation of the consolidated Health and Safety Files with the assistance of project teams
• Ensure consistency in approach, format and content of the consolidated Health and Safety Files across the Programme
• Coordinate with project site teams to ensure the Health and Safety Files adequately reflect the current and handover state of the elements
• Use macros to assist in efficiently completing time intensive document checking exercises. Where feasible specify to Information Technology (IT) teams new macro requirements
• Take reasonable care of your own and others’ health and safety and of those who may be affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to Target Zero principles
• Co-operate in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times
• Act as a role model for vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with Ways of Working. Encourage and support others to do so too
• Promote equality in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues
• Take necessary care to properly protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate information from unauthorised disclosure, modification or destruction. Never knowingly put information or information systems at risk

Main challenges of the job

• Reaching consensus on the detail, format and content of documentation
• Liaison with multiple parties including site teams, functional teams, and pseudo external parties (IMs).
• Management of documentation within the constraints of the information systems
• Development of tools to support efficient quality checking of documentation within the constraints of systems and IT/IM resources

Person Specification

• Engineering background – engineering degree preferred with sufficient engineering experience
• IT skills, specifically in data management systems. Knowledge of Microsoft office macros and Structured Query Language (SQL) database queries would be an advantage (to articulate requirements – not specifically writing).
• Some UK construction design management (CDM) knowledge would be an advantage
• Inter personal skills to work with a wide group of individuals within a high profile programme