Health and Safety Business Partner

Your new company

You will be working for one of the largest construction companies that operates in a variety of sectors including, financial, education, retail, media, health and leisure, undertaking projects ranging from £10k to over £250m.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide expert Health & Safety advice and coaching to our leadership and delivery teams.
• Identifying, analysing and prioritising H&S risks to the business, including the development and management of mitigation plans
• Support and carry out
• risk-based Health and Safety operational assurance within projects.
• Able to translate the fitout H&S strategy and objectives into regional operational plans
• Collaborates with operational / construction directors to deliver cost-effective and efficient performance.
• Set and measure key performance indicators to drive Health & Safety excellence for the Business Unit.
• Facilitate and support the leadership team in BU SLT meetings.
• Lead and support the development of initiatives and best practices in HSW management.
• Develop a positive H&S culture throughout the project management team and supply chain.
• Support the project teams in incident investigation and, when necessary, lead on investigations and ensure lessons learned are developed and shared.
• Drive change through communication, persuasion, engagement and innovation.
• Support bid teams in tender preparation and subsequent interviews when required.
• Evaluate Health and Safety requirements for potential new supply chain.
• Develop and Produce H&S performance reports for the business.

What you'll need to succeed

• We are looking for a confident, engaging person who is a team player.
• Someone with experience of effectively motivating personnel to advance their levels of performance, productivity and professionalism, successfully supporting highly dynamic and focused teams.
• A strategic thinker who can apply tactical solutions to solve issues when they arise.
• Strong communicator who can passionately articulate their vision to all stakeholders from Client to operatives onsite
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills including dynamic presentations and writing of reports, documents, results of inspections and investigations, and for follow ups along with maintaining records.
• Proven ability that drives change through communication, persuasion, engagement and innovation.
• Being able to strategic plan to accommodate safety goals and elevating them to a highly reputed status.
• Comprehensive understanding of CDM, including the Client, PD and PC roles including their application. Along with a keen interest in Health & Safety by design
• Skilled at coaching and mentoring
• employees
• Awareness of industry-wide health & Safety best practice

Technical ability:

• Formal Health & Safety qualification
• Working towards or achievement of chartered member of IOSH and demonstrable evidence of CPD relative to current industry best practice.
• Proficient in incident investigation skills, including root cause analysis
• Qualification in fire risk assessment/fire management (desirable)

What you'll get in return

In return, you will receive a wide range of company benefits, including a generous holiday scheme and a personal progression and development plan.

What you need to do now

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