Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager - Regional Lead

We're looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager – Regional Lead, to join our Construction team based in Birmingham, covering the Eastern and Midlands Region.

Location: Birmingham, covering the Eastern and Midlands Region
Hours: 37.5 per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

This is an exciting opportunity to provide Health, Safety, and Wellbeing leadership across our regional construction business. As the key point of contact between the regional business and the Kier Construction Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Director, you'll play a vital role in ensuring our teams work safely and thrive. This position offers the chance to make a real difference across major construction projects whilst developing your career within a supportive, forward-thinking organisation.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager – Regional Lead, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in delivering excellence in health, safety and wellbeing across the Eastern and Midlands Region. Your day to day will include:

• Coordinating and compiling project HSW reports and providing monthly updates to the Project Senior Leadership Team
• Undertaking audits and inspections to ensure quality reporting, corrective actions and adherence to Operating Procedures and Control Standards
• Supporting accident, incident and near miss investigations in accordance with our Major Incident Response Plan to prevent reoccurrence
• Advising project leadership on all aspects of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, promoting our behavioural safety programme "Think Safety Differently"
• Building and maintaining effective working relationships across HSW, Environmental, Social Value and Quality Assurance Teams

What are we looking for?

This role of Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager – Regional Lead is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable experience in construction industry safety, health, and wellbeing within a similar Tier 1 construction business, preferably as a Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH)
• You're a great communicator with proven ability to build positive working relationships at site level
• You have a strong understanding of behavioural safety and can promote safety programmes effectively
• You're forward thinking, able to share ideas and challenge standard practices whilst managing your own workload and priorities
• You hold an appropriate level CSCS Card and are proficient in Microsoft Office 365

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier