Head of Health, Safety and Environment

13 hours ago


England, UK, United Kingdom VINCI Building UK Full time

About the Company

VINCI Building is seeking a Head of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) to lead and manage HSE operations across its Delegation. This is a key leadership role focused on ensuring compliance, driving innovation, and embedding best practices across all Business Units to meet the legal, strategic, and environmental objectives of VINCI Building UK Division.


About the Role

Are you a strategic leader with a deep understanding of health, safety, and environmental management systems? Do you thrive on creating impactful strategies and delivering compliance in complex environments? If your answer is yes, you could be the person we are looking for to lead our HSE agenda and support the development of our people, processes, and culture.


Responsibilities:

As Head of Health, Safety, and Environment, you will:

  • Lead the development and implementation of HSE strategies and policies in alignment with VINCI Building vision, values, and objectives.
  • Provide compliance support, advice, and training to management at all levels, ensuring the effective implementation of the Integrated Management System and adherence to ISO45001 and ISO14001 standards.
  • Manage and mentor HSE Advisors, fostering their development and ensuring the team achieves its full potential.
  • Conduct regular audits, reviews, and risk assessments to identify improvements, ensure legal compliance, and maintain sector-specific quality standards.
  • Act as a key liaison with enforcing authorities, clients, supply chain partners, and other stakeholders to address HSE actions and foster collaboration.
  • Lead incident investigations, analyze trends and root causes, and implement corrective actions to mitigate risks.
  • Develop, monitor, and review key performance indicators to measure the success of HSE initiatives.
  • Support the creation of a Wellbeing Strategy and contribute to the Environmental Roadmap in line with company goals.
  • Promote a risk management culture and drive innovation through working groups focused on continuous improvement and best practices.


Measures of Success:

  • Stakeholder satisfaction with visibility, engagement, and support.
  • Delivery of objectives and personal targets as outlined in appraisals.
  • Maintenance of ISO45001 and ISO14001 accreditations.
  • Zero enforcement actions and reduction in third-party claims costs.
  • Development and delivery of safety training programs within the Delegation.
  • Reduced group insurance costs through effective risk management.


Required Skills:

  • Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience mentoring and developing HSE professionals.
  • In-depth knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation, standards, and best practices.
  • Proven ability to develop and implement HSE strategies and management systems.
  • Experience managing compliance audits and maintaining accreditations for ISO45001 and ISO14001.
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving.


We are VINCI Building

Operating from our network of offices throughout England and Wales, VINCI Building delivers new build, refurbishment and associated fitout works, with particular expertise in the education, healthcare, industrial, air, retail, commercial and mixed-use sectors.


We focus on technical excellence and experience to sustainably deliver best value for our clients.


We understand and respond to the challenges of the modern built environment.


Our goal is always to build strong partnerships with our customers and stakeholders to ensure success by unlocking your strategic vision and turning it into a deliverable scheme. We are active in a wide range of sectors and value bands, allowing us to provide a regional service with national resources.


VINCI Building delivers complex projects and programmes, blending our corporate stability with the local knowledge our teams offer.


Sustainability is at the heart of our approach, and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. We take the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work in to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy.


Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Building is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.


Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.


VINCI Building recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.



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