Health Safety & Wellbeing Director

Job Description

The HSW Director is responsible for:

• Setting HSW requirements and providing guidance and assurance; developing a culture and behaviours to promote HSW throughout the design and delivery organisation. Maintain HSW rigour throughout the delivery process, with a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensuring all HSW aspects of the project are compliant.

• Develop, implement and embed a visionary HSW strategy for the Project in line with industry best practice and incorporate into the Project’s plans, aims and objectives.
• Lead, champion and enhance the health & safety culture of the project.
• Lead and manage HSW for the Project, creating a learning culture by identifying and implementing best practice in accordance with high standards of SCS JV governance. Effectively promote and communicate the HSW strategy across the Project.
• Implement a consistent and standardised approach to all HSW activities and maintain a high level of control.
• Develop a competent and professional HSW team capable of delivering the SCS JV requirements.
• Act as the main central focal point for all HSW activities within the SCS JV.
• Maintain effective reporting systems and report to the IPLT on all HSW matters.
• Promote teamwork and support a culture of corporate accountability throughout the organization.
• Ensure investigations are properly conducted and learning is shared and applied.
• Report the project HSW performance to the client and to the parent companies.
• Ensure all HSW standards and legislations are adhered to at all times.
• Ensure the HSW requirements of the hybrid bill and further 3rd party agreements are adhered at all times.

• Exercise independent judgement.
• Maintain awareness and knowledge of appropriate UK legislation.
• Ensure that the SCS JV HSW reporting complies with the Companies Act regulations and HSE legislation.
• Use judgement to assess the likely consequences of any decision in the long term.
• Assess the impact of the SCS JV operations on the community and the environment.

• Lead by example in respect of Corporate Governance and champion its mandatory compliance across the business.
• Foster the SCS JV business relationships with suppliers, customers, and others.
• Ensure that all those within your remit and control follow the correct processes and procedures particularly in respect of the support infrastructure, including HR, Finance, Commercial, Internal Audit etc.

• Work closely with the IPLT to formulate SCS JV HSW Strategy in line with the strategy of the project.
• Chair the project HSW meetings and, thereby, ensure key issues are addressed, performance monitored, targets set, and best practice disseminated.

• Develop a detailed action plan to achieve HSW objectives, ensuring that the project plans contribute to the achievement of these objectives, and monitor the actions taken.
• Effectively communicate HSW activities and issues at all levels.
• Implement a set of HSW policies, procedures, manuals and guides that are consistent with good practice and are workable. Continuously review and improve these.
• Champion the accurate reporting of all injuries, ill health, and dangerous occurrences.
• Ensure an effective, consistent, and cost‑effective provision of HSW training.

• Significant SHE‑related experience including management and leadership experience.
• Working towards CMIOSH or MIEMA or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in a complex large‑scale programme or business.
• Previous experience of working within a Joint Venture or at board level.

• Extensive relevant SHE experiences in construction/engineering industry, including extensive management and training of others experience.
• CMIOSH or MIEMA or equivalent.

• Strategic Skills – Innovative Management / Strategic Agility.
• Operating Skills – Priority Setting.
• Energy & Drive – Drive for results / Perseverance.
• Personal & Interpersonal Skills – Ethics and Values / Integrity and Trust / Motivating others.

• Forward thinking, leading‑edge challenging, leading by example, integrity, gravitas, encouraging / perseverance, confident, assured, sharing…