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Senior Health & Safety Manager

Job Description

Are you ready to take Health & Safety to new heights with Select?

Rethinking Safety through Inclusion + Wellbeing

Inclusion and Wellbeing is our holistic approach to physical and psychological health and safety - addressing the unique risk factors in construction.

Do you have the desire to really make construction safer? Can you influence, engage, plan and implement new ways of thinking? Then Select can give you a platform and raise your career to the highest level.

Select (A Laing O'Rourke company) has built an excellent reputation as one of the UK's largest and most diverse suppliers of choice for equipment, accommodation, and services to the construction industry.

At Select you can be a part of a team that challenges industry partners to work collaboratively in order to achieve engineered safety. Innovating on improved equipment design and developing enhanced training programmes are just two ways Select aims to raise standards of safety across all of its business streams. Select offers one of the most comprehensive ranges of plant and equipment in the UK, including tower cranes, crawler cranes, mobile cranes, and lifting accessories.

Are you craving variety? How does Piling, Accommodation and an industry leading Training Academy sound?

This is a national role, however, Select's largest depot is based in St Neots, where regular meetings and collaboration are likely to take place.

Position Summary:

• Manage, lead and champion for Health and Safety delivery within their project/business/facility.
• Knowledge of previous H&S regulations around the plant hire industry, tower cranes, plant hire equipment
• To provide local advice and support necessary to assist managers and staff to fulfil their safety responsibilities to the high standards demanded by the Business.
• Facilitate and coach operational teams on I+W and the respective engagement tools, which allow the team to engage effectively with the workforce.
• Carry out relevant H&S assurance activities, providing confidence to the business that operational effectiveness of all relevant processes is being delivered.
• Support and influence the Select business leadership team to develop the soft skills required to deliver Inclusion + Well-being successfully, i.e., listening, openness, honesty, collaboration, willingness to learn and suspended judgement/ understanding.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Qualification at level 5 (min)
• Technical knowledge in Occupational Health Risk Management and Wellbeing
• Technical knowledge in Safety Risk Management
• Coaching / Training competence
• Assurance / Audit / Investigation competence
• Member of a relevant professional body
• Well developed capacity to deal sensitively with people understanding their motivation, beliefs and behaviours
• Positive minded, looks for the positive in all situations and sees change as an improvement opportunity
• Belief and enthusiasm in doing the right thing and creating a good honest and trustworthy personal brand

Join us and support the 1000s of staff members in their health and safety journey. Be the narrator and create a better story for everyone and yourself. If you are tired of a lack of variety and vision, then come and join Select today. In return your career will reach greater heights than our tower cranes.

Comparable job titles include: H&S Manager, H&S Lead, Health and safety Lead, EHS Manager, Senior Health and Safety Manager.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please get in touch.

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