Health & Safety Manager

Bachy Soletanche are seeking a Health & Safety Manager who will be responsible, to the Managing Director, for the operation of the H&S Department and advise management and our organisation at all levels on matters concerning improving the H&S in our operations.

Managerial

• Reporting directly to BSL Managing Director and indirectly to the Soletanche Bachy group SHEQ director
• Leader in the development of a positive H&S culture
• Responsible for developing & improving a competent H&S team
• Responsible for managing and reporting statistical H&S performance to the board of directors, analysing the data and advising the needed strategic, managerial & practical improvement areas
• Helping the management to foster a learning organisation mindset, advising how to learn from our incident, our positive interventions & best practices
• Leading the investigation of our incidents to ensure that appropriate root causes are identified and targeting the continuous learning and improving in our operations
• Report to and liaise with the UK regulator for H&S in the UK
• Actively share and seek best practices, learnings exchanging with the SB worldwide and UK Group, FPS & EFFC respective bodies

Systems

• Leader in the development of H&S policies. Develop, maintain and implement company H&S procedures / SSOW’s to ensure best practice is maintained
• Develop safe systems of work including high risk activities in H&S subjects
• Participate and co-ordinate with the other disciplines quality, environment & energy/carbon ISO standard leads in internal & external audits for ISO accreditations
• Responsible for the aggregation of risk and opportunities, key interested parties/stakeholders taking into consideration the other management system disciplines and setting company & department H&S, targets & objectives
• Responsible for the management of the H&S legal register along with regular communication of significant changes to the business
• Manage the COSHH reporting system
• Responsible for H&S regulatory and procedural compliance for BSL

Operational

• Undertake and produce regular leadership engagement tours
• Building close and strong relations to our operational teams in order to provide efficient support and leadership
• Mentor staff at all levels in H&S matters. Provide advice and guidance on the training requirements to the management for all levels of the business regarding H&S matters
• Ensure that project teams are supported and suitable H&S guidance is provided
• Liaise with clients and supply chain partners on H&S matters
• Responsible for supporting departments with FM responsibility and auditing these departments are compliant with UK legal requirements
• Responsible for supporting HR in the implementation of the companies OH programme
• Advise & support commercial, design, commercial and estimating teams on H&S
• Assist with prequalification submissions
• Represent the business as necessary in senior safety meeting with JV Partners/Clients

– Membership of IOSH – Chartered
– NEBOSH Construction Certificate – or equivalent
– NEBOSH Fire Certificate – or equivalent
– NEBOSH Environmental Certificate – or equivalent

• Appropriate CSCS Card
• Training qualifications in construction related areas
• Full UK Driving License
• Experience of managing Health & Safety at a management level
• Significant Construction/Civil Engineering/Geotechnical Engineering experience
• A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development in connection with Health & Safety, with a focus on the development of an improved culture of safety
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with colleagues under pressure
• Comfortable in demanding client situations
• A personal commitment to improving Safety, Health and Wellbeing standards in the workplace
• Ability to develop strong relationships and communicate across all levels
• Willingness to travel and stay away from home when required
• Experience in the production of safety reports, briefing documents and procedures
• Ability to apply relevant legislation in a practical manner
• Experience with behavioural safety techniques
• Experience of incident investigation and root cause analysis

The role is based in Camberley, Surrey, with travel to sites & offices across the UK