From the commitment we pour into our homes, to the belief we bring to supporting amazing careers, a role at Persimmon is a springboard for Building Your New Possible. Discover new opportunities to grow, learn new skills and release your potential.
We’re Persimmon Homes, a FTSE 100 listed company and a leading UK house builder serving local communities across the UK and delivering around 10,000 homes a year. We have 29 operating businesses in England, Wales and Scotland, three house-building brands and three off-site manufacturing facilities.
We’re looking for people like you, and this could be your opportunity to start Building Your New Possible.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Health, Safety & Environment Team. This role typically reports to the Senior Health, Safety & Environment Advisor.
The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.
Identifying, risk assessing and reporting potential hazards and non-compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate to maintain company safety standards
Producing accurate and timely management reports and management information, such as non-compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety first approach
Regularly inspecting construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Including periodic out of hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region
Carrying out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
Managing and monitoring contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised
Effectively communicating with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships
Providing HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up to date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings are undertaken and recorded
Managing any referrals through the safety concerns line, to ensure that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values on being customer focused and social impact
A good understanding of Microsoft Products, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety and/ or NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction (or equivalent)
Ideally a higher level H&S qualification (or working towards this), such as: City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice; Level 6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety; NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Level 6; or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety
The Salary & Benefits package
Company car or car allowance
Contributory pension
Life cover
Bonus
You can realise your full potential through industry-leading training and clearly signposted career paths. If this sounds like the place for you, apply today and start Building Your New Possible.
No Agencies please – Persimmon will not accept speculative CVs as a means of introduction
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.