European Health and Safety Manager
01st Mar, 2023 Read time 5 minutes

European Health and Safety Manager

Company Website: https://slrconsulting.com/
Location: Bristol
Last Updated: 1st April 2023

Full Job Description

We have an excellent opportunity, for an experienced Health and Safety professional, to provide Health and Safety leadership for our growing European business. This is a managerial role, with significant access to other senior managers across the business.

As one of the five key Regional Safety Managers you will also be part of a Global Safety Team, helping set the strategic company direction and policy.

The role
Both directly and through team management we’ll look to you to further develop and maintain an engaging safety culture that focuses on injury and illness prevention, by promoting personal and shared responsibility for the wellbeing of individuals and fellow colleagues and ensuring processes and systems are in place to consistently meet compliance with relevant Health and Safety regulations, across our European business.

This will be achieved through:

  • Keeping under review key health and safety risks and the effectiveness of controls, so that safety considerations are an integral part of wider business decisions and plans
  • Developing and, with operational management, driving the implementation of an annual health and safety plan that identifies priorities and is aligned with Group Health and Safety strategy
  • Integrating new business acquisitions into SLR’s health and safety culture and systems
  • Ensuring that practical and timely health and safety support is provided for higher risk projects, including the review of risk assessments and safety plans where requested
  • Tracking the business safety performance versus goals and provide a monthly management report
  • Instructing and overseeing appropriate levels of investigation for all accidents and significant near misses, sharing lessons learned
  • Researching, recommending and implementing systems and process as appropriate to enhance efficiency of the business.

Collaborating with the other Regional Managers, you’ll be expected to contribute to the development of Group policy and campaigns, sharing your knowledge as a member of the Global Health and Safety Team.

About us

SLR are global leaders in environmental and advisory solutions helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals. We are a consultancy with over 2400+ staff across 6 regions – including over 850 staff across Europe. SLR’s ‘one team’ culture is at the heart of our business; providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development. Along with competitive salaries, our staff enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a company pension plus excellent healthcare offering, travel and life insurance, critical illness cover and a structured career framework with regular reviews offering outstanding opportunities for progression. Alongside 25 day’s annual leave, SLR offer flexible, agile and hybrid working which enables staff to tailor hours worked around core hours, and our family friendly policies help balance the needs of professional and family life.
About you

You will have the drive and determination to succeed, with the ability to achieve goals through personal commitment and by engendering cooperation in others. Equally you are not shy to take responsibility when needed and use your leadership skills to ‘make things happen’.

With the ability to implement actions at operational level, utilising the support network around you, you’ll be a leader in both thought and action, with an unwavering commitment to constantly search out and implement improvements to safety management. This is an important role in the company and for the right person offers opportunities to develop their career in an expanding and dynamic enterprise.

Skills and experience:

  • Certified member of IOSH. Other equivalent qualifications and experience would be considered.
  • Significant senior managerial experience within a safety related role.
  • Proven ability to engage others and instigate change in culture and habits.
  • Credible with senior managers, operational consultants and with business support functions.
  • A pragmatic common-sense decision maker.
  • Ability to interpret health and safety regulations within the context of varied work environments.
  • Experience within a similar service led organisation would be desirable but not essential for the right candidate.
  • Full driving license valid in the UK

With significant managerial experience in safety related roles, you’ll have the proven ability to engage others and be an instigator of change, in culture and habits.

To apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you, so click apply or you can submit your application at: www.slrconsulting.com/careers.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
SLR Consulting is committed to being an equal opportunities employer, and our expectations go beyond purely complying with legislation. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are at the core of who we are and who we choose to be. We embrace diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within and outside our organisation. We respect and celebrate difference to ensure SLR is a place where everyone feels included, is encouraged to be their authentic self and has opportunities to grow.

Across Europe, our DE&I agenda is driven forward through our DE&I Committee, which actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion across both our internal processes and our client work. Globally, our Global Culture & Diversity Council brings together representatives from across our regions to share ideas and best practice that can be incorporated into our global policies, enabling greater transparency and supporting the development of an inclusive culture, inclusive approaches to policies and practices, and to personal behaviours.

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of their background, and particularly invite those from groups who are currently under-represented in our business to apply, such as women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

Country

United Kingdom

Office

Bristol; London; Manchester – Oxford Street

 

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