Health and Safety Manager

What will you do?

To manage and lead a team of HSW professionals providing support and guidance to the operational teams to deliver and comply with the project and CWA HSW goals and objectives throughout the pre-construction, construction, and post construction process, ensuring all legal obligations are met. To provide a high level of support to the operational teams to enable the safe delivery of work. To work closely with the HSW Lead – Marine & Tunnelling providing tactical support and HSW data and feedback from the work stream.

This role will be assigned to the Marine & Tunnelling stream essential in helping us achieve the project milestone.

Principal Accountabilities, Activities and Decisions

• Communicate and implement the HSW strategy.
• Provide advice, support, input and direction to the Tunnelling team to enable them to deliver successful bids, early engineering studies, mobilisation and ultimately delivery of the project in a coherent and co-ordinated manner.
• Builds solid relationships with stakeholders and can deliver on customer strategic and tactical requirements.
• In conjunction with the Client, Project & HSW Lead and HSW Director, carry out project HSW performance reviews and report as required.
• Able to lead and manage the HSW team including supporting the PDR process.
• Work with HR on developing resource including recruitment and interview.
• Undertake Health and Safety compliance evaluations, tours and audits as required and to ensure sufficient assurance of project activities.
• Able to identify and rank risk associated with CWA work activities.
• Able to prepare fact driven reports following inspections, tours, audits and investigations.
• Support the implementation of and ensure compliance with the Sizewell C (SZC) project standards and the CWA Safety Management System (SMS).
• Able to build relationships with the CWA project teams and wider interested stakeholders

What are we looking for?

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Must have experience in leading and managing teams.
• Must have a detailed, technical knowledge and experience Health and safety legislation, regulations and guidance.
• Experience of working on Major Infrastructure Projects including Tunnelling / Mining.
• Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams and of working at a senior level.
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
• Ability to influence and promote a positive HSW culture, by providing constructive feedback to others around their performance, strengths and development needs.
• Able to engage at all levels within the CWA operational team structure.
• High competence in accident and incident investigation.
• Able to use data and information for the preparation of HSW reports.
• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Manager competence

What we will offer you?

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke - which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.