Health, Safety & Compliance Manager

Employment Type: Full Time / Part Time

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Health, Safety & Compliance Manager to join our engineering business and take responsibility for maintaining and continually improving our Health & Safety, compliance and environmental standards across our workshop, offices and customer sites.

This is a hands-on role involving regular site inspections, workshop inspections, audits, RAMS, training, incident investigation, compliance management and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will work closely with our management, engineering and project teams to ensure that Health & Safety and compliance requirements are incorporated into projects from initial planning through to completion.

We are particularly interested in candidates with an engineering, manufacturing, mechanical or construction background, who understand how engineering projects are designed, fabricated, installed and commissioned.

Experience of project management and working within an engineering environment would be highly advantageous.

• Take responsibility for the day-to-day management and development of the company's Health & Safety systems.
• Maintain and continually improve Health & Safety policies, procedures and processes.
• Ensure compliance with relevant UK Health & Safety legislation and client requirements.
• Maintain the company's risk assessment and method statement (RAMS) processes.
• Review and approve RAMS for workshop and site activities.
• Carry out regular workplace and site inspections.
• Identify hazards, unsafe practices and areas for improvement.
• Investigate accidents, near misses and incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain Health & Safety records and action plans.
• Promote a strong and proactive Health & Safety culture throughout the business.

• Regularly travel to customer sites throughout the UK to carry out Health & Safety inspections and audits.
• Inspect engineering installation, fabrication, maintenance and commissioning activities.
• Liaise with client H&S teams, site managers, CDM teams and other contractors.
• Attend site Health & Safety meetings where required.
• Review site-specific requirements, inductions, permits and RAMS.
• Carry out pre-start inspections and site audits.
• Support Project Managers and Site Managers with Health & Safety requirements.
• Ensure actions arising from inspections are followed through to completion.
• Feed lessons learned from projects back into company procedures and future projects.

• Welding and fabrication.
• Grinding and cutting.
• Mechanical assembly.
• Pressure testing.
• Lifting operations.
• Forklift and material handling.
• Work at height.
• Machinery and power tools.
• COSHH.
• Electrical equipment.
• Compressed gases.
• Vehicle movements and workshop traffic.
• PPE and emergency equipment.

• Maintain a compliance register covering relevant legislation, standards, certifications and client requirements.
• Monitor changes to legislation and industry requirements.
• Ensure required inspections, examinations, testing and certifications are completed.
• Maintain company compliance documentation and records.
• Support external audits and client audits.
• Manage corrective and preventative actions arising from audits and inspections.
• Ensure appropriate contractor and supplier compliance.
• Maintain training, competency and certification records.
• Support the development and implementation of company policies and procedures.