Health & Safety Manager

Purpose of the Job

Working to improve health & safety performance of the company and its contractors in line with Target Zero principles.

The post will work within either area delivery or health & safety specialist teams, this post-holder will maintain strong relationships with Area Delivery Directors and others to ensure a consistent approach is taken with regards to health & safety management.

Principal Accountabilities

Manage a team of health & safety professionals to improve health & safety performance within the programme.

Advise Delivery Teams on health & safety matters and assist them to discharge their duties.

Ensure all sites in their area are subject to surveillance, inspection and audits as per the agreed master schedule, records kept, and data uploaded into the appropriate systems.

Collaborate closely with contractors to enable them to understand and deliver their commitments under the contract with regards to health and safety standards and taken appropriate action when required.

Provide guidance to teams on conducting data analysis to identify trends and implement improvement plans to address emerging issues.

Consider contractor health and safety performance and identify relevant leading indicators to improve H&S performance and monitor/report on same.

Assist other health & safety teams with sharing of best practice, positive safety performance and learning from incidents.

Produce required reports and presentations in a timely manner and to an agreed standard.

Deliver Target Zero initiatives across the area of responsibility maintaining a common approach with other health & safety teams.

Advise Directors of their duties under CDM and allocate resources to assist and advise on CDM and risk documentation in meeting Client, CDM-C and Designer responsibilities.

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

Multiple contractor interfaces with varying levels of safety performance.

Improving health & safety performance over a number of contractors and site locations.

Working imbedded in delivery teams and maintaining common approach with other health & safety professionals in other teams.

Balancing a variety of priorities to ensure timely delivery in accordance with agreed deadlines.

• Developing a collaborative approach to encouraging improvements in health & safety performance. Significant experience in heavy construction health & safety management at a senior level.Experience of large civil engineering and rail projects.
• Experience of incident investigation (preference for TOPSETT training).
• NEBOSH Diploma, degree or equivalent in Occupational Health & Safety Management.
• Person Specification