Health & Safety Consultant

Vacancy Salary
- **£Competitive**
- Vacancy Location
- **Edinburgh**
- This is a _permanent_, _full time_ vacancy_. _

**THE VACANCY**

**Department Overview**:
Our Health & Safety Team at RLB provide a quality service to many clients across a wide spread of industry sectors. We pride ourselves on the quality of our service to our clients and enjoy long term relationships with a large majority, offering opportunities with market leaders.

We are a sector focused business actively operating and investing in commercial, residential, education, MOD, Ministry of Justice, sports, nuclear and retail clients and projects. You will be expected to work closely with the clients as expert advisor throughout the project.

**Overview of Role**:
Due to our growing and diverse portfolio an exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Health & Safety Consultant **to join us in** Belfast.**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established team of consultants who pride themselves on providing outstanding health and safety guidance and advice, to a range of clients within both the public and private sectors, from SME’s to large blue chip corporate clients.

We provide a wide range of consultancy health and safety services to our clients including:

- CDM Services - Principal Designer, Principal Designer Advisor and Independent Client Advisor.
- Health & Safety Auditing
- Fire Risk Assessments

We are looking to further expand our health and safety offering into areas such as training.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Act as Principal Designer or Principal Designer Advisor on small to large scale projects.
- Act as Independent Client Advisor
- Conducting audits to include both general health and safety compliance and topic specific audits.
- Advising and instructing clients on project team capability, management arrangements and other relevant procedures.
- Undertake accident or other special investigations to assist the client as required.
- Provide health and safety advice, guidance, training and support across the client base
- Assist in the completion of PQQ/tender documents

**Person Specification**:
**Essential**:

- Proven experience providing client-side health and safety services within the construction or property industry.
- GradIOSH working toward Chartered membership of IOSH (CMIOSH) (or willing to work)
- Level 6 health and safety qualification (Level 3 if already chartered in design discipline)
- Good experience working under the CDM Regulations, carrying out roles such as CDM Coordinator.
- Wide ranging sector experience and working knowledge of large scale/complex projects.
- Excellent IT and communication skills.

Desirable:

- Professional training qualification
- Incorporated Member of the Association for Project Safety (IMaPS) working toward Certified Member of the Association for Project Safety (CMaPS)
- Chartered CIOB or RICS
- Health and safety management system auditing with OHSAS 18001 Auditor/Lead auditor
- Qualified Fire Risk Assessor - IFE or IFSM

**At RLB, our aim is to create and enhance an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is not only accepted but valued and built into our company culture, creating opportunity for all. In order to support this, we recognise the importance of flexible and agile working and are open to having conversations on how this could work for you and our business from day one.**

**ABOUT US**

Confidence today inspires tomorrow

With a network that covers the globe and a heritage spanning over two centuries, Rider Levett Bucknall is a leading independent organisation in cost management and quantity surveying, project management and advisory services.

Our achievements are renowned: from the early days of pioneering quantity surveying, to landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House, HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, the 2012 London Olympic Games and CityCenter in Las Vegas.

We continue this successful legacy with our dedication to the value, quality and sustainability of the built environment. Our innovative thinking, global reach, and flawless execution push the boundaries. Taking ambitious projects from an idea to reality.

RLB has released the 2022 edition of **_Perspective_**, a compilation of insights from members of the RLB team around the world.

**OUR VALUES**

At Rider Levett Bucknall doing the right thing matters and we believe we all have a responsibility to support the communities in which we live and work. Our global values are based on the following insights:
**People**
- Promote fairness, equality of opportunity and well-being, invest in our people and value everyone’s contribution.

**Industry**
- Lead by example and shape the future of our industry in everything we do.

**Community**
- Support the communities in which we live and work and deliver sustainable social outcomes.

**Customers**
- Challenge the norm, give fresh perspectives and deliver flawlessly.

**Environment**
- Reduce our environmental footprint and collaborate