Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager Job at Taunton, Somerset Full Time

Sir Robert McAlpine has secured a prestigious contract to construct a state-of-the-art Battery Manufacturing Facility. The initial phase of the project includes the design and construction of a new 15GWh lithium-ion battery facility, ancillary buildings, and site-wide external works.

Why join us?

Since 1869 we’ve worked on building and civil engineering projects that have set the standard for others to follow – right up to present-day examples like the Eden Project, Olympic Stadium, and award-winning new Bloomberg building.

After celebrating our 150th anniversary, we’re looking forward with excitement to the projects and opportunities ahead. Our family-owned business is where to achieve more from your career by proudly building Britain’s future heritage with us.

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager role

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

Rewards

We’re ready to invest in you and your future, and offer wide-ranging, performance-related progression opportunities. Our competitive rewards packages feature flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities.

We’d love you to join us in proudly building Britain’s future heritage. Apply online now.

Sir Robert McAlpine is focused on being a truly inclusive employer, even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Especially if you’re part of a group that is under-represented in Construction. Our goal is for Sir Robert McAlpine to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. As a family-run business with strong family values, our aim is to ensure that Sir Robert McAlpine is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team.