Health & Safety Consultant - Orpington, United Kingdom - calfordseaden

calfordseaden

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Orpington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic Health & Safety Consultant, to grow their career in our busy H&S team, within our multi-disciplinary award winning consultancy.

Person Specification:

As a H&S Consultant, You should have strong technical knowledge, good communication skills and have a clear understanding of CDM 2015 and health and safety legislation and the requirements of the impending Building Safety Bill.

You will be a team playerwho will be able to demonstrate an ability to work with the minimum of supervision, be dedicated, enthusiastic and should pay attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities:

Fulfil the requirements within the role as prescribed under CDM 2015;
Provide advice and assist clients in discharging their duties under CDM 2015;
Provide advice and assistance to clients in respect of the corporate health and safety obligations;
Provide general health and safety consultancy services;
Carry out construction site and workplace H&S inspections;
Report Writing and administration in connection with the above;
Support and assist the business in undertaking their health and safety related duties;
Follow company procedures and documentation in relation to the carrying out of the role;
Maintain training records in accordance with company procedures and continual professional development;
Update management monthly on the status of portfolio of schemes, including fees;
Attend group meetings.

Essential Criteria:

You will be qualified or working towards technical membership of IOSH, full membership of IIRSM and a registered member of APS as well as maintaining technical knowledge and developing your competency through experience, continued training and CPD.

Main Duties:

On a regular basis, You will review the status of projects with the aim of discharging duties under the regulations, including:

Services relating to the role of Principal Designer, Principal Designer Advisor and Client CDM Advisor role
Liaison with the client in assisting with discharging health and safety duties;
Assist the Client in identifying information towards the development of the Pre-Construction Information;
Where requested, review the contents of the Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan and formal advise;
Where requested, carry out competency checks on appointees on behalf of the Client and formally advise;
Monitor the progression of projects and administrate as required;
Update project Milestones and transfer project related communications into the Plexus system;
Follow company protocols and procedures in the conduct of work within this role;
Agree, format and timescale for handover of the Health & Safety File on all projects;
Carry out DSE and Manual Handling Assessments, and general consultancy where requested;
Assist in the production of health and safety procedures for the company when requested;
Support the business generally in maintaining Company Health & Safety procedures and protocol.

Our Vision:

To be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment.

Our values, which are:

Collaboration:

- being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential

Being Yourself:

- being true to ourselves and other and celebrating differences

Social Value:

- recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact

Excellence:

Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do

Support:

- providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our people

Integrity:

- being honest and doing the right thing

are integral to everything we do and are reflective of our interaction with each other, our clients, our wider stakeholders and how we approach our work and present ourselves.

Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the best results and are ultimately why our clients choose to work with us time and time again.

Wellbeing and Inclusion are at the forefront of our people strategy, and we are now happy to offer hybrid working on 95% of our roles and have recently committed to enhanced Family Leave schemes (after a qualifying period).

We also invest heavily in Leadershipand Management Development and Female Leadership Programmes.

We are passionate about encouraging more diversity within the construction industry and are looking at apprenticeship and schools outreach programmes as part of our strategy.

If you are aligned to our values and are a talented and commercially minded Building Surveyor, please apply, or if this job isn't quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within construction consultancy, please send us your CVfor one of our future roles.