Health And Safety Manager

Our Client is one of the world leaders in multidisciplinary product design and development Their consultancy operates globally from their campus of studios

Their market sectors are Medical and Scientific’, ‘Commercial and Industrial’, ‘Consumer’ and ‘Transport’.

They are looking for a Health and Safety Manager, who has worked in a design and development company, to join their team in Warwick

Health and Safety Manager

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised and well qualified Health and Safety professional with proven breadth and depth of H&S knowledge and experience to work for a successful, forward thinking organisation that can offer an informal, friendly but professional and hard working environment.

The successful applicant will provide a professional and comprehensive, broad-based H&S service to our clients business, ensuring that continuously develops and implements good practice in all areas of health and safety to ensure statutory compliance.

The successful applicant will work closely with the Technical Director, the HR Manager and the Facilities Manager to develop and deliver a range of proactive and preventative health and safety initiatives.

This role reports directly to the Technical Director, but the successful applicant will need sufficient experience and knowledge to work autonomously in areas and on tasks agreed with the Technical Director and/or the Board.

By its nature, this will be a full time onsite role.

Key tasks and responsibilities

The key tasks and responsibilities listed below are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder. This is not an exhaustive list of all tasks that may fall to the post holder who will be expected to carry out other tasks for which they are appropriately experienced and qualified as may be required by the Board.

Work closely with the Technical Director to support the delivery of business plans and to provide an efficient and effective health and safety service ensuring statutory compliance.

Act as the first point of contact for all general H&S queries and provide professional advice and guidance, in line with policies and procedures, to Directors, Sector Managers, Project Managers, Skill Leaders and all employees as required.

Keep up-to-date with new health and safety developments, innovations and legislation and advise the Directors of changes required to support H&S strategy.

Pro-actively advise the Board on how to address any H&S issues that may arise.

In conjunction with the Technical Director, develop, document and implement updates and enhancements to Health and Safety policy documents in line with the latest legislation and all business needs.

Maintain KPIs for health and safety and use these as the basis for preparing management reports to present in person at Board Meetings on a monthly basis.

Undertake actions raised at these monthly Board Meetings in a timely fashion and report progress in person at Board Meetings on a monthly basis.

Where agreed with the Board, take responsibility for the delivery of specific H&S related projects and new initiatives.

Monitor and audit activities and the associated health and safety policies and procedures in all areas related to health and safety against an agreed audit schedule to ensure compliance in all areas in line with their policies and procedures and implement any corrective actions and/or policy and procedure updates.

Create and review risk management documents such as risk assessments and SWPs, covering all aspects of day to day activities including, but not limited to workshop machinery and processes, COSHH, fire, home, lone and remote working and general risk assessments, as well as project, market sector or skill specific risk assessments. Propose, implement and monitor control measures and/or corrective actions as a result of these risk assessments.

Engage proactively with Project and Sector Managers while they are creating project proposals to ensure that any project specific H&S measures are taken into account during the planning of these projects.

Provide advice to Project Managers on any project related H&S matters that may arise during the…