Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager

Overview

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HS&W) department supports the business to reduce HS&W risk and create positive working environments.

The purpose of a HS&W Manager is to support stakeholders to achieve the highest levels of HS&W performance. A key member of the HS&W team, working closely with assigned projects teams and project supply chain members to give high quality HS&W support.

At SRM, our goal is to achieve industry leading HS&W performance. We place equal focus to the following five areas, Competence, Process, Culture, Compliance and Learning, which are integral to our continuous improvement. We believe that to be an industry leader, collaboration with industry peers to make the industry a better place is key.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and help rectify any competence issues for projects that you support
• Provide high levels of HS&W support and advice to assigned projects
• Identify and escalate any resource issues, which could create a HS&W risk for projects you support
• Support implementation and embedment of companywide HS&W strategy objectives
• Contribute to work winning activity when required
• Influence and support project personnel to lead and engage in HS&W
• Promote and help create a positive HS&W reporting culture

Your profile

Essential:

• Member of IOSH working towards Chartered Status
• Excellent people leadership skills
• Experience of providing highly technical H&S support to complex Construction or Civil Engineering projects within UK Tier 1 contractors
• Competent understanding and ability to apply root cause analysis
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Experience of leading HS&W improvement with successful results
• A proactive approach to your own learning and development
• Strong technical background with experience across major project schemes

Desired:

• Chartered member of IOSH
• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 5/6 in Occupational Health and Safety
• Lifting Experience
• Mental Health First Aider
• Senior Leadership Team experience
• Experience of managing direct reports
• Sound understanding of behavioural psychology and human factors
• Involvement in external HS&W working groups

If you are interested in this role or want to discuss further, please do get in touch.