Health and Safety Manager

We're looking for a Health and Safety Manager to join our Transportation team based in Penrith, Cumbria. In this role you'll manage and promote Health and Safety for the Major Projects Highways business. Due to the nature of this role a driving licence is essential.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment. 

Location: Penrith, Cumbria - travel to the office required with some remote working available

Hours: Permanent Fulltime 45 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Health and Safety Manager, you'll deliver Kier's strategic goals for SHE and promote Kier's vision and values to all stakeholders.

Your day to day will include:

• Ensure legal and group compliance for the contract

• Review or produce risk control documents, to review supply chain risk control documents and to assist operations manage risk
• Ensure Safety, Health & Wellbeing strategy is both implemented and promoted on the contract
• Provide SHE focus point on the contract and produce monthly report for contract senior management team
• Ensure all incidents are notified and investigated

What are we looking for?

This role of Health and Safety Manager is great if you have:

• Experience in a similar role within highways construction or infrastructure
• Diploma or equivalent in Health & Safety and CMIOSH or related Degree
• Working knowledge of ISO 14001 & ISO 45001

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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