Construction Health & Safety Manager

This contract with our central government client is for a Construction Health & Safety Manager for 6 months based in Central England – Based from home with travel to sites across UK.  

Overview:  

The post holder will support the senior management team, accountable to the Prison Infrastructure Construction H&S Lead for the successful, timely and quality delivery of construction projects in the client's Estate. The post will lead as an expert in Health and Safety (H&S) ensuring that construction projects are legally compliant, building towards having industry leading construction projects where H&S is the number one priority. They will engage across the civil service, develop their internal capability, and analyse projects to target interventions.  

Responsibilities will include the following:  

• The strategic and technical support to the organisation's Property directorate, ensuring the safe delivery of construction projects for the group.  

• Technical support on all health and safety aspects including building safety, building regulations duty holder compliance across the organisation's Property cluster.  

• Supporting with the team’s outputs, training requirements and continuously promoting a positive H&S culture.  

• Ensuring personal development and professional accreditations are kept up to date.  

• Attend management meetings as required and facilitate with the presentation of health and safety reporting internally and externally to customers.  

• Undertake a continuous improvement approach to the account, seeking to present and provide solutions and operational improvements.  

• Business interfaces and front-line customer and stakeholder engagement at a regional and national level.  

• Supporting health and safety initiatives across the prison infrastructure portfolio working on roughly £4bn of construction projects over the next five years, and beyond.  

• Ensure health and safety risk management actions are in place and are actioned accordingly.  

• Undertaking accident investigations and ensuring all data systems are updated in relation to all aspects of health and safety concerning prison construction projects.  

Managing the Estate:  

• Act as a key member of the prison infrastructure team  

• Manage as required the provision of reactive and planned interventions across projects to ensure that health and safety is considered as the number one priority by customers, consultants and contractors, as well as civil servants, across a wide-ranging number of national construction projects  

• Undertake a system of inspections, monitoring and audits across the construction projects  

• Support the delivery of expansions to the prison estate and assist in ensuring this is managed, monitored and reported in an accurate and timely manner  

• Provide meaningful input to all teams to help drive performance improvement through analysis of management information and reporting  

• Provide technical guidance to the prison infrastructure team to leverage knowledge from the data and translate into improvements in processes, specifications or services  

• Work collaboratively with others across the organisation's Property to set actions and resolve escalated issues.  

• Actively participate in the prison infrastructure team, organisation's Property Directorate, and industry networks to share best practice to overcome specific and generic blockers to effective health and safety management  

Contract & Supplier Management:  

• Effectively contribute to service level governance and operational supplier management of all construction contractors through engagement, site inspections and audits.  

• Assist with the day-to-day contractor and supply chain engagement from a health and safety perspective.  

• Provide support on technical issues from day-to-day issue resolution through to strategic quarterly reviews.  

• Attend and actively participate in supplier contract performance meetings as required.  

• Liaise with the organisation's Property and the wider civil service to understand performance of contractors and evolving customer requirements.  

• Accountable for working with the supply chain to drive safe working practices in accordance with business and industry targets.  

• Assist with tender evaluations from an H&S perspective.  

Government Wide Initiatives:  

• Support the delivery of Government Soft Landings and programmes such as Digital Construction providing the necessary input and resource from the team as required.  

• Support the prison infrastructure construction H&S Lead in professionalising construction health and safety management across central government and representing the Property function within the Government Property Profession as required.  

Customer & Stakeholder Management:  

• Support the day-to-day customer engagement from a health and perspective.  

• Contribute to effective stakeholder relationships within the wider property portfolio.  

• Work in collaboration with the organisation's Property Account Management Team to facilitate strong customer relationship management.  

• Assist with the management and resolution of any escalations or complaints relating to health and safety from the customers or supply chain, including request for additional spend, elective new works, changes to scope or specification as required.  

Managing People:  

• Support the Prison Infrastructure team to deliver the construction projects in a safe manner.  

• Ensure all colleagues associated with prison construction projects are fully compliant with mandatory learning, competencies, skills and behaviours required to discharge their role.  

• Promote a high-performance culture and excellent customer service in all activity ensuring that people demonstrate appropriate behaviours in delivering a service to the business.  

• 5 years working on construction projects minimum  

• Chartered Member IOSH  

• Strong understanding of Building Regs and the Building Safety Act  

Skills and Experience:  

• To have a professionally recognised health and safety qualification (e.g., NEBOSH and have CMIOSH membership with IOSH or similar or working towards) and a background in health and safety construction delivery.  

• To have supported health and safety across construction and facilities teams and have a track record of addressing compliance issues.  

• You will have a minimum of 5 years' experience of the delivery of complex construction programmes across a widely varying estate.  

• You will be able to demonstrate significant experience in project/programme health and safety management, delivering works against challenging deadlines.  

• You will be an active member of a professional engineering trade organisation / body or working towards joining one.