H&s Manager

Job description

Our client has a current opportunity for Health & Safety Manager to join their team on a full-time, permanent basis, based in Inverness.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Health & Safety Manager is not only responsible for developing and managing the safety systems on site, but also actively promoting a positive health & safety culture within the workforce.

Main Duties
- Evolving the existing Safety management system to cover the needs of the site, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation.
- Dominant lead on Safety Star Programme for site.
- Providing specialist knowledge and support in Health & Safety to site personnel.
- Developing and co-ordinating delivery of the Safety training programme.
- Working with the other sites to share best practise, implement the safety vision and achieve/deliver the aims and objectives of the Company's Health & Safety Policies.
- Assist in developing systems which promote personal ownership of Safety.
- Developing a Process Safety Management System and promoting a perfect Process Safety Performance culture on site.
- High-Risk Employee Management Leader.
- High-Risk Scenario training leader.
- Completion of Hazard and Operability Studies on critical processes and all new investments/significant changes.
- Safety Steering Committee Owner - providing clear direction for leaders and all safety sub-committees.
- Management of Change Owner for Personal and Process Safety
- Ensuring minimisation of exposure to workplace hazards.
- Employee focused Health & Safety Management.
- Continuously striving to achieve 100% compliance with hazard specific safety expectations.
- Site demonstration of an interdependent and accountable safety culture.
- Consistent and obvious encouragement of safe behaviours.
- Continuous Personal Safety Improvement.
- Continuous Process Safety Improvement.
- Direct involvement with employees at their work area, including knowledge of the hazards associated with each task being performed on site.
- Compiling Safety reports (weekly/monthly) and distributing to all employees.
- Compile Leading indicators and sharing with employees.
- Incident/Accident Investigation if required.
- Ensuring all safety spreadsheets are kept up to date.
- Analysing safety data to determine preventive measures.
- Boots on the ground auditing permit to work during maintenance days and process running.
- Risk assessment/SSoW reviews and advising as required.
- Liaise with enforcement agencies and legal representatives in matters of Health & Safety compliance and litigation.
- Give overview on H&S at communication days.

Skills & Experience
- Previous experience in a Health & Safety role.
- A Level/Higher education level or equivalent.
- Qualifications in Health and Safety studies (NEBOSH or equivalent).
- Thorough understanding of Safety Regulations.
- IT Skills (Microsoft Office).
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- A site fanatic personal safety employee.
- Be a detail-oriented person who can manage work in progress.
- Have good interpersonal skills to allow appropriate on-site interaction.
- Have good time management skills to concentrate efforts on the more important priorities.
- Good mediating and negotiating skills.

Our role in supporting **_diversity_** and **_inclusion_**
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.