Health & Safety Manager

Description:

Job Title: Health & Safety Manager

Salary: 55-60k per annum

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule: 9am - 5:30pm

Location: Bedford

Our client is part of a Group of companies and provides engineering service and process technologies to the water and wastewater, utilities, food and beverage, power, and industrial process industries. They are centrally located in Bedfordshitre in the UK, where their fabrication workshop and engineering design office is located.

The role

A strategic and senior role with responsibility across all elements of the business in the context of health, safety, quality & environmental.

This individual is ultimately responsible for ensuring the business operates at the highest possible level in respect of health and safety.

A key objective of this role is continual improvement in all areas and ensuring our Integrated Management System maintains external independent certification.

Responsibilities:

Typical duties and accountabilities include:

• Ensure company procedures and day to day activities are undertaken in accordance with applicable legislation and industry best practice.

• Undertake inspections and audits of company projects (sites). Complete audit inspection and advise of actions and ensure they are completed in an agreed timescale.

• Undertake investigations and reporting of accidents and near misses. Liaison with external parties such as HSE.

• Prepare / coordinate the internal auditing schedules for the company and ensure that all audits are carried out on time. Carry out internal management system and site audits as part of the internal audit team.

• Ensure that any non-conformances / observations raised because of internal and external audits are effectively resolved and closed out in a timely manner. This to include investigation reports and action plans.

• To ensure that all management systems are always maintained in a functional state and through continual review and improvement, meet the requirements of the ISO standards.

• Liaise with all external accreditation bodies and coordinate and manage the external audit processes.

• Maintain all ancillary systems associated with the management systems, i.e., legislation registers, KPI’s, objectives, targets, and plans, etc.

• Coordinate and attend company management system meetings (i.e., IMS, QA, Environmental and H&S).

• Carry out Health & Safety / IMS induction training for new staff members.

• Prepare monthly health & safety reports, statistics and present the H&S Dashboard for review.

Requirements:

* The role will require regular travel to our sites – currently across the Severn Trent area of Leicestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire and Worcestershire

* A relevant professional qualification e.g., NEBOSH

* Hold or attain membership of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

* Extensive knowledge of effective health and safety management strategies and best practice.

* Knowledge and a proven track record of delivery of health and safety management systems and the provision of advice.

* Detailed knowledge of current health and safety legislation and its application in a construction sector environment.

* Relevant CSCS qualification.

* Full UK driving licence.

* Microsoft office proficient (Word, Excel, Project) numerate and able to write regular reports.

* Preferably have worked with both drinking water and wastewater clients.

* Preferably have a good working knowledge of / background in Mechanical / Process Engineering.

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APPLICANTS WILL BE BASED IN THE BEDFORD OFFICE but will be required to travel to our sites to carry out audits - therefore need to be based and living in the UK - Please DO NOT apply if you don’t meet this requirement.

We offer:

* Competitive salary dependant on experience

* Car allowance

* Generous company pension contribution

* 23 days annual leave rising to 25 over time (plus stat holidays)

* PayCare medical expense benefit