Head Of Hseq Yorkshire

As Head of HSEQ, you will manage and support the HSEQ Managers & HSEQ Advisory Team within the area of your control to meet the requirements of the Health, Safety, Environment & Quality Management systems.
Lead and champion HSEQ initiatives such as Be Healthy & Be Safe Plan, Be Sustainable Be Green Plan & Front Foot Safety within areas of your control whilst ensuring that legislation is adhered to.
Assist the HSEQ Director to work on further developing and embedding HSEQ Management Systems and strategic actions at a Corporate level to enable continual business improvement.
An additional function will be to review our Health & Safety and Environmental Training Strategy and maintain its structure and content to meet the ongoing business needs.
Key Responsibilities: Occupational Health: Support the provision of Occupational Health within the regions of control, under the direction of the HSEQ Director.
Support the communication and promotion of the monthly themes.
Promote the value of Occupational Health & Wellbeing at a local level.
Manage and Lead HSEQ Team Members for allocated areas of control: Provide consistent and accurate HSEQ Leadership, support and advice to HSEQ Team members.
Provide HSEQ Leadership support to regions on HSEQ initiatives.
Provide HSEQ Leadership to issues/problems.
Ensure regional HSEQ statistics are maintained and reported corporately to identify trends and determine proactive initiatives.
Provide Leadership, support and focus to the HSEQ Team on our Be Right First-Time initiatives and monitor our Quality Control as defined by the HSEQ Systems & Audit Manager.
Collaboration and Client Support: Be our Lead HSEQ representative for Client support for the regions under your control.
Ensure Client-led HSEQ Forums are represented by the HSEQ Team at the appropriate level and support lessons learnt feedback and sharing of best practices.
Form collaborative relationships with Client senior HSEQ representatives.
HSEQ Communications and HSE Statistics: Contribute to general communications at a company level.
Ensure the HSEQ Team create lessons learnt.
Communicate HSEQ alerts following incidents and poor-quality standards to promote learning and prevention and continual improvement.
Prepare Weekly HSEQ Flash Reports for cascade.
Support the HSEQ Director in maintaining HSEQ performance statistics monthly as requested.
Accident/Incident Investigations: Lead HSEQ Team investigation reviews for HSE investigations to ensure root cause(s) are properly defined and appropriate actions support future prevention.
Keep local and corporate senior management informed on status.
Ensure the identification of root causes.
Lead, support and review HSE alerts / Flash reports as above.
Act as an independent Lead Investigator in other areas of the business under the direction of the HSEQ Director.
HSEQ Monitoring: Conduct regular leadership visits to support and lead by example within the areas of your control.
Conduct 2 HSEQ Inspections every month in the area of your control.
Act as a role model for HSEQ in the area under your control.
Facilities Management at Company Premises: Satisfy yourself with HSEQ management support for Facilities Managers at company premises on HSE-related issues and provisions.
Check HSEQ Team monitoring of HSE standards at company premises and ensure legal obligations are being upheld.
Key Measures and Targets: Support the completion of weekly Escalation Reports.
HSEQ Flash Reports.
Monthly HSEQ Team Meetings.
Monthly HSEQ Statistics.
Monitor and upkeep HSE Management Systems.
Key Relationships: HSEQ Director.
HSEQ Managers & Advisors.
Lead Environmental Advisor.
HSEQ Systems & Audit Manager.
Contracts Managers.
Operations Manager.
Regional Manager.
Regional Director.
Engineering Director.
Person Specification: The successful candidate is likely to meet all the following criteria: Essential: NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent as a minimum but ideally IOSH.
CEnv or equivalent as a minimum but ideally associate IEMA.
Extensive SHE experience within a civil engineering environment and experience in the rail sector would be beneficial but not essential.
Sound knowledge of quality controls associated with company work activities.
Skills and Qualifications: Analytical skills to interpret detailed information and regulations.
High standard of written English.
Good communication skills, including professional telephone manners.
People skills - ability to liaise with staff/operatives of all levels within Barhale.
Excellent use of MS Office - Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Effective communicator with strong presentation and report-writing skills.
CSCS Safety Professional card.
Mentoring skills to develop HSEQ Team members.
Personal Qualities: Able to provide strong leadership skills for the HSEQ Team and capable of encouraging team members to work alone to tight deadlines as appropriate.
Pride - sets own high-quality standards, e.g.
attention to detail.
Passion for Health, Safety & Environment.
Lead by/set a good example.
Benefits: As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes a range of benefits: 5% Company pension contribution.
Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary.
Private medical cover.
Permanent Health Cover.
Company Profit Share Scheme.
Company car / or car allowance (Dependent on position).
Career Development and ongoing training.
Staff Referral Scheme.
25 days annual leave with additional loyalty days (Full-Time equivalent).
Volunteering Scheme.
Environmental and Social Value initiatives.
About Barhale: Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors.
Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor.
While we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several construction industry sectors has enabled us to expand our skillset and become one of the largest privately-owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.
What we do: We provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors: Water.
Transport.
Energy.
Built Environment.
We also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including: Tunnelling.
MEICA capabilities.
In-house design.
A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group).
Who we are?
Barhale operates as a tier-1 partner for blue-chip, regulated, and private clients.
We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances and on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity, and Pride.
Our People: We employ a direct workforce of over 1,000 employees nationwide.
We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.
Our commitment to career progression, personal development, innovation, collaborative working, diversity and Inclusion, health and wellbeing and work-life balance is what makes us a Gold Investors in People Company.
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