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Health and Safety Manager

Reporting to

The Health and Safety Manager will report directly to the Managing Director.

Overview

The Health and Safety Manager will ensure all organisation operational activities under its

management and control are safely carried out in accordance with relevant and current

Health and Safety legislation and other applicable requirements and its established Safe

Systems of Work.

The Health and Safety Manager will be responsible for the continued accreditation of its

Occupational Health and Safety Management System.

Main Duties include:

 To work closely with the Senior Management Team to ensure the organisation's Health

and Safety policy intent and business plan strategy on Health and Safety is implemented

successfully.

 To advise and provide information relating to changes in applicable Health & Safety

legislation to the Senior Management Team.

 To represent the company in any interaction/reporting with regulatory and other

authoritive bodies (i.e. HSE, LA, insurers).

 To continually promote Health and Safety expected behavioural standards throughout the

business, engendering a safe working culture.

 To provide Health and Safety technical expertise and support across its fabrication/office

and construction site operations.

 To prepare in readiness and facilitate external Health and Safety audits carried out by

accreditation and certification bodies (i.e. SCCS, BCSA, BuildingConfidence,

Constructionline).

 To possess excellent attention to detail to identify hazards in the workplace and have the

hindsight to develop and implement solutions to issues, improvement opportunities (i.e.

reinforcing, re-educating and strengthening) and/or implementing new prevention

measures.

 To ensure the HSMS system (accredited to BS EN ISO 45001:2018) is well managed and

maintained meeting the requirements of the standard: periodically appraising the

effectiveness and robustness its policies, processes and procedures.

 To investigate and help resolve any local business, neighbour and/or customer/client

complaints received by the Company concerning Health & Safety issues.

 In the event of an incident, subsequent investigation and findings and proportionate to the

seriousness to carry out a review/update of the company’s Safe System Of Work to

continually improve safe operational arrangements, meet/exceed industry best practice

and clients expectations.

 To carry out (to plan and for cause) Health and Safety audits across its fabrication/office

and construction site operations to ensure continued compliance and in the spirit of driving

continual improvement.

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 To work closely with our appointed external Health & Safety advisors, Hurst Setter &

Associates Ltd, supplementing resources to carry out construction site audits.

 To advise on training requirements to ensure regulatory and legislative compliance.

 To engage and work closely with construction site operations subcontractors sharing

knowledge, lessons learnt seeking continual improvement in the supply chain.

 To produce periodic management and board Health and Safety reports, providing amongst

other details qualitative information on trends, concerns, issues, shortfalls, identified

risks/opportunities for improvement and development.

 In the absence or directive of the Managing Director to chair Health & Safety meetings.

 To liaise with the Quality and Environmental Manager with aspects that could affect the

Quality (BS EN ISO 9001:2015) and/or Environmental Management Systems (BS EN ISO

14001:2015).

 To carry out Health and Safety inductions for new employees and subcontractors working

at its fabrication/office facilities.

 To support the Marketing/Sales function: providing Health and Safety information to aid

tendering/bidding process and assist in the upkeep maintenance of internet portals

seeking such information.

 To comply with all GDPR regulations.

General

 In addition, to main duties carry out other duties that are reasonably requested by your

Line Manager.

 Achieve and maintain a working knowledge of all relevant legislation, Codes Of Practice

and industry best standards as applicable to the role and responsibilities.

 Work within company guidelines, policies and procedures.

 Complete PDR in a timely manner.

 Liaise effectively with other areas of the Caunton Business to ensure the swift transfer of

knowledge from department to department, to reduce scope for poor information flow.

 When required, attend meetings both internally and externally.

 When required, liaise with external organisations, (main contractor, architects, engineers

and sub-contractors as well as advisory organisations such as the SCI and BCSA).

 Maintain effective, productive and professional client/supplier relationships.

Management Responsibility

 Demonstrate collaborative working behaviours in own actions.

 Develop and maintain a ‘one team’ ethos within the business.

 Use influence rather than authority to achieve desired aims.

 Embrace and engage in the company values: Honesty, Respect and Recognition, Fair

treatment and Empathy, Loyalty and Inspiring and Involving Others.

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Financial Responsibility

 Departmental budget management and control

 Reviewing and approving departmental invoices

Caunton Standards

Facilitates the company maintaining the following ISO standards and accreditations and those

it may pursue to meet supply chain requirements of customers or contracting bodies:

 BS EN ISO 45001:2018 – Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems

 BS EN ISO 9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems

 BS EN ISO 14001:2015 – Environmental Management Systems

 BuildingConfidence certification

 Constructionline certification

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Person Specification

 Hold NEBOSH Diploma and other relevant H&S qualifications (i.e. appropriate and valid

CSCS card).

 Have in-depth Health and Safety understanding and experience within construction,

manufacturing, and engineering industry. Ideally activities associated with the fabrication

and installation of structural steelwork.

 Working knowledge of industry specific legal requirements and other requirements.

 Knowledge and experience of BS EN ISO 45001:2018, its requirements and process

approach based on the concept of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA).

 Hold full driving license.

 Have a flexible attitude to working (the position is predominately office based, there is an

element of site working at any location within the UK).

 Have the ability to work autonomously and prioritise workload to meet company needs.

 Possess knowledge and experience carrying out Health and Safety inspections and

facilitating external audits conducted by accreditation and certification bodies.

 Strong written and verbal communication e.g. report writing, briefings, and presentation

skills.

 Excellent problem solving, organisational and communication skillset.

 Have drive and enthusiasm with the ability to promote a positive Health and Safety culture.

 Commitment to Continuous Professional Development.

 IT literate, familiar and proficient with Microsoft Office suite of software.

 Able to work under pressure and deliver results to tight deadlines.

 Ability to influence, educating, nurture and persuade a wide range of stakeholders and

people.

 An awareness and ability to adapt to change both internally and externally.

 Have high standards with regard to professionalism and integrity in the role.

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Role & Responsibilities

Job Role: HSEQ Manager (Industrial Sector)

As an employee of Winvic it is important for you to undertake your role inline with the values that underpin the success of the business. As a HSEQ Manager you should take time to familiarise and reflect against key characteristics and deliverables involved in fulfilling your role, these include but are not limited to;

Characteristics:

Respect

Ensure any exchanges with others are carried out in a positive and respectful manner. Undertake the role in a manner that commands respect from those who you interact with.

Loyalty

Undertake the role in a manner that best presents the wider HSEQ department and Winvic as a business, additionally carrying out interactions with any stakeholders in a professional manner.

Honesty

Willingness to have difficult conversations with those which you interact with in order to achieve desired outcomes, delivering on what is promised and not withholding on the truth.

Ability to involve others in ensuring desired outcomes are met, undesired trends, issues etc. are dealt with in a appropriate manner.

Challenging

Undertake duties in an objective manner and with a focus towards betterment and continuous improvement. Making use of tools such as general inspections, infotracker etc. to document actions, challenge substandard performance and influence wider business.

Passion & Tenacity

Undertake the role in a manner that is persistent in pursuing desired outcomes, requirements, goals etc. actively seeks to set the standards for others to follow.

Does what it takes to bring the best outcome in terms of HSEQ compliance for the business.

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Deliverables:

• Maintain familiarisation with all Winvic HSEQ prescribed working practices and standards, additionally changes in legislation, guidance, codes of practice etc. General Inspections carried out to a high standard and in a manner that reflects compliance against Winvic on the schemes in which you have been allocated as required (minimum of 1 a month on each allocated scheme), provide advice and guidance to improve the level of compliance and regulatory risk control.

• Ensure that functions such as project HSEQ pre-planning meetings, forward planning meetings are carried out in a manner that best serves the integrity and outputs of the requirements.

• Assist the planning and development of safe systems of work in conjunction with project teams and supply chain particularly in relation to high risk works and/or unique operations.

• Lead by example with an attitude of never walking by issues.

• Ensure incidents, accidents, observations etc. are effectively reported onto the Info- tracker system.

• Escalate significant incidents, issues, trends to senior staff associated with scheme as required.

• All info tracker entries to be closed out in a timely manner, close out process to be monitored on allocated schemes through to full closure.

• Engage and support compliance with client specific reporting requirements.

• Proactively engage with supply chain members you have been allocated as point of contact to.

• Interact with supply chain in an effective manner where issues or improvements are required.

• Carry out incident/accident investigations as required, findings to be formulated within reports in a timely and professional manner.

• Undertake reviews of BMS processes as and when required and in an agreed timeframe.

• Ensure agreed deadlines on any objectives set and agreed are worked to.

• Assist HSEQ team members in fulfilling requirements on schemes they are allocated where required.

• Apply initiative in prioritising presence and input with allocated sites based on aspects such as complexities, performance, upcoming scope etc.

• Participate in supporting the business with regards to tenders and pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ’s) and tender submissions, as requested.

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• Provide internal training and coaching to operational teams in specific subject

matters, such as – CDM, Contractor Management, Incident Investigation, Risk Assessment, COSHH, Spill Kit Response, HSG47 and SAP.

• Undertake all other duties as directed by Head of HSEQ in a professional manner.

• Maintain training skills to comply with company matrix for your role.