Location: London
The successful candidate will be based from home with travel to sites across the UK.
As the Construction Health & Safety Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the senior management team to ensure the successful, timely, and high-quality delivery of construction projects within the Estate. This position will require you to be the go-to expert in Health and Safety (H&S), leading initiatives to ensure that every construction project is fully compliant with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include engaging across various departments within the civil service to foster a culture of safety, enhancing internal H&S capabilities, and rigorously analysing projects to identify and implement targeted safety interventions.
Key accountabilities:
* Strategic and technical support to the Property directorate, ensuring the safe delivery of construction projects for the group.
* Technical support on all health and safety aspects including building safety, building regulations duty holder compliance across the Property cluster.
* Support training requirements and continuously promote a positive H&S culture.
* Attend management meetings as required and facilitate the presentation of health and safety reporting internally and externally to customers.
* Undertake a continuous improvement approach to the account, seeking to present and provide solutions and operational improvements.
* Business interfaces and front-line customer and stakeholder engagement at a regional and national level.
* Support health and safety initiatives across the prison infrastructure portfolio working on roughly £4bn of construction projects over the next five years, and beyond.
* Ensure health and safety risk management actions are in place and are actioned accordingly.
* Undertake accident investigations and ensure all data systems are updated in relation to all aspects of health and safety concerning construction projects.
* Undertake a system of inspections, monitoring and audits across the construction projects.
* Effectively contribute to service level governance and operational supplier management of all construction contractors through engagement, site inspections and audits.
Skills and Experience:
* Professionally recognised health and safety qualification (e.g., NEBOSH and have CMIOSH membership with IOSH or similar or working towards).
* Background in health and safety construction delivery.
* A track record of addressing compliance issues and supporting health and safety across construction and facilities teams.
* A minimum of 5 years' experience in the delivery of complex construction programmes across a widely varying estate.
* Demonstrate significant experience in project/programme health and safety management, delivering works against challenging deadlines.
* Active member of a professional engineering trade organisation/body or working towards joining one.
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