Health and Safety Manager

About the role

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Health and Safety Manager and you can build something to be proud of here.

Role Overview 

The provision of timely health and safety advice, guidance, training, management reporting and practical management solutions to Project Staff, employees and contractors

What you'll be doing

As a Health and Safety Manager, you will have the following responsibilities,

To develop, maintain and promote the implementation of the Project H&S Management Systems including the (contract Health & Safety Plan, Emergency Preparedness Plan)
Provide advice, support, and assistance to all project personnel to enable them to manage their health, safety responsibilities.
Develop and deliver suitable H&S training programmes for all project personnel (including routine project inductions).
Assist Project Managers and Supervisors delivering project related risk assessments using appropriate risk assessment methods.
Undertake risk assessment and risk assessment reviews.
Undertake Health and Safety compliance evaluations, inspections, and audits at prescribed intervals.
Investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards.
To monitor, collate and interpret health and safety performance data including close out of inspection and accident investigation reports, and provide management reports on a routine basis.
Participate in the regular review and update of the Project Health & Safety Management System.

Who we're looking for

Do you have?

Construction industry experience
Corporate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards)
NVQ Level 4
NEBOSH Construction Certificate / Diploma
Relevant CSCS Card

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us? As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits: -Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. - 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata) - Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave - Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role