Health & Safety Manager

Location: Friston, Suffolk.

Flexible working will be considered.

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 negotiable dependant n experience plus: car/car allowance and package

Summary

An opportunity has arisen with a major tier 1 infrastructure contractor for a Health & Safety Manager
to work on the design and build of a new substation in Suffolk.

The contract with Scottish Power is to support their East Anglia windfarm in the Southern North Sea. The project forms a vital part of Britain's transition to renewable energy and Net Zero.

Reporting to the Project Director, the Health and Safety Manager will be responsible for developing a positive health & safety culture focused upon accident prevention and improving the health & safety across the project.

The project involves carrying out significant earth moving operations on the greenfield site, new roads and road junctions, reinforced concrete works and steel framed superstructures housing the next generation of equipment to deliver balanced renewable power into the National Grid. Design and environmental consent works are already underway, and construction will commence in spring next year with a planned handover and energisation to grid in December 2027.

Duties:

- Initiate and maintain positive measures to raise standards, ensuring the company complies with OHSAS 18001 obligations, health & safety legislation and all minimum health & safety standards (MSS).
- Support the monitoring of sites through the audit process, in a proactive manner to address any issues.
- Establish a system to ensure that all personnel on site, to work or to visit, have received a site induction briefing before going on site. Ensure the induction is regularly updated to reflect current site hazards/conditions.
- Ensure effective investigations take place to prevent accidents & incidents, whilst ensuring effective learning from all events are presented to the head of HSEQ for wider business distribution.
- Ensure a construction phase health & safety plan is prepared and accepted before works start and make sure the plan is continually updated.
- Introduce initiatives to improve standards and ensure safe working, whilst focusing on the proactive side of health & safety management.
- Identify, promote and where required, implement health & safety best practice.
- Participate in supporting the business with regards to tenders and pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ's) and tender submissions, as designated by Senior Safety Manager/Preconstruction Team.
- Work with the supply chain to establish effective relationships and ensure continuous improvement in delivering safety solutions.
- In cases of difference of opinion on health & safety issues, lead negotiations to reach the best solution for the project.
- Ensure a schedule of weekly health & safety inspections is established and monitored, including operational staff, senior management and support services.

Person Specification

- Previous experience as a Health and Safety Manager working on a major infrastructure project
- Relevant safety training including Fire, Confined Spaces, First Aid, COSHH, HSG 47 etc
- Appointed Person for Lifting Operations (desirable but not essential)
- Degree or equivalent in a construction related subject
- NEBOSH General / Construction (Diploma Desirable)
- IOSH (CMIOSH Desirable)

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