HSE Director
Make a Big Green Impact!
Our client is on a mission to lead the global renewable energy revolution and needs talented individuals to help bring their vision to life. If you're driven to make a tangible difference in the shift toward sustainable energy, this is the role for you.
They are pioneering the transition to greener, more affordable energy through the installation of cutting-edge in-home technologies. From smart meters and electric vehicle chargers to low-carbon heating, home batteries, and solar energy systems, they’re at the forefront of innovation. Leveraging our clients advanced technology platform, Tech, they’re delivering intelligent energy solutions to homes across the nation.
About the Role:
To maintain the highest standards in safe, low-carbon installations for their domestic clients, our client continually advances their safety, compliance, and quality assurance practices. They are seeking a strategic-minded Head of/Director of Health and Safety who will set and drive the safety and wellbeing agenda across the organisation.
As HSE Director, you will be responsible for defining, implementing, and evolving the safety and wellbeing strategies, policies, standards, and management systems that align with the company’s forward-looking goals.
Key Responsibilities:
* Strategic Leadership: Shape and direct the safety and wellbeing strategy, policies, standards, and management systems, ensuring alignment with the company's growth and sustainability goals.
* Executive Collaboration: Act as a strategic advisor, recommending health and safety policies, objectives, and KPIs to senior leadership.
* Planning & Reporting: Develop annual health and safety plans, along with regular performance updates, to inform and engage stakeholders.
* Employee Wellbeing & Design: Lead initiatives focused on employee wellbeing, safe workplace design, and efficient working arrangements.
* Empowering Managers: Partner with senior leaders to embed proactive health and safety practices within their teams and departments.
* Training & Development: Oversee health and safety training programs, collaborating with Organisational Development to ensure that skills meet evolving organizational needs.
* Performance Monitoring: Design and implement systems for measuring, analysing, and improving health and safety performance metrics.
* Auditing & Compliance: Lead a robust program of health and safety audits and oversee the completion of follow-up actions to ensure continual improvement.
* Incident Management: Conduct thorough investigations of serious incidents, dangerous occurrences, and work-related health issues, reporting on findings and preventive measures.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Build and sustain positive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, enhancing health and safety standards and sharing best practices.
* Regulatory Representation: Represent the organisation with regulatory bodies and industry counterparts, networking to benchmark and exchange best practices.
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
* Extensive leadership experience in Health, Safety, and Compliance, including the management of legal challenges, court representations, and severe incident handling.
* NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification preferred; Chartered IOSH membership or equivalent is a strong advantage.
* Comprehensive understanding of UK health and safety laws, regulations, and standards, with the confidence to represent the organisation’s practices in court if necessary.
* Willingness to travel to various sites as required.
Why Join Our Client?
Here, people work autonomously within a supportive team of innovative colleagues, contributing to projects that make real change. In 2022, our client was awarded "Best Company to Work For" and was rated one of the top 50 workplaces on Glassdoor.
Location: This is a remote role with travel requirements across the UK, primarily in England and Wales.
Accommodations: We are committed to providing an inclusive hiring experience. If you require specific accommodations, please let us know, and we’ll tailor the process to ensure you’re set up for success.
Ardour Associates values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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