Senior Construction HSE Manager

Senior Construction Health and Safety Manager

You will provide specialist subject matter expertise in Construction Health & Safety associated with large capital new builds, enabling works, refurbishment, and demolition programmes. You will lead and task manage a team of Construction Chartered Health & Safety professionals providing leadership, advice, and guidance in line with relevant legislation, industry standards and AWE’s policies and procedures.

You will lead the provision of H&S Services to an agreed H&S Service Delivery Agreement across a broad area of the business with the aim of achieving excellent performance in environment, safety, and health throughout that area.

• Establishing with customer/s appropriate ESH service schedules (including proportionate ESH improvement programmes) and deliver the required services to time and cost by routinely monitoring performance against the schedule.
• Ensuring appropriate utilisation of deployed ESH Staff and managing instance of over and under-utilisation.
• Setting direction and developing a shared understanding of individuals’ roles in delivering the AWE vision and strategy.
• Enabling the performance and results of the team. Making sure that team members have the capabilities to get the work done now and in the future.
• Engaging and inspiring colleagues, promoting a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages them to seek opportunities for continuous improvement and personal development.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Location – Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary – £55,130-£70,000 (Dependant on experience and suitability for the role)

Closing date – 15th December 2023 – Interviews being held in January 2024

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• A generous 270 hours of annual leave plus every other Friday off work.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for an annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
• Life Insurance
• An award-winning benefit scheme, AWE&ME My Choice, offers a wide range of lifestyle, financial and wellbeing services, including Cycle to Work and an Employee Discount scheme for savings on your every-day spending.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following:

• Extensive experience in the field of Construction Health & Safety including a thorough working knowledge of the CDM Regulations.
• Self-confidence to Professionally challenge long established processes and work activities.
• Can build effective relationships with people at all levels within the organisation, including working collaboratively with our Supply Chain Partners.
• Provide proactive, visible Health & Safety Leadership during onsite monitoring activities.
• Being commercially aware when providing Construction Health & Safety advice and guidance.
• Level 5 Qualification e.g. NVQ Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice, NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
• IOSH Grade of CMIOSH is preferable