Health and Safety Director

Location Islington
Sector: Health and Safety, Construction and Civil Engineering
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £100000.00 - £120000.00 per annum + Car Allowance
Job ref: IR1518_1650376604
Published: about 2 years ago

Health and Safety Director

Finsbury | circa £110,000 Plus Car Allowance and Excellent Benefits

Irwin & Colton has been engaged by a major Principal Contractor to recruit their Health and Safety Director. The company work on a variety of projects from developing luxury residencies, to refurbishing heritage and listed buildings. They have an excellent track record of health and safety performance, and this role is critical to ensure this is implemented consistently throughout their projects. This role will frequent involve travel to their sites in London.

Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Director will include:

  • Working with senior management and stakeholders to develop and continually refine the health and safety strategy

  • Leading the Health and Safety team ensuring the successful delivery of the strategy on site, managing and coaching the health and safety and site teams, to ensure compliance and a positive safety culture

  • Influencing, engaging and coaching key internal and external stake holders to drive change

  • Conducting major health and safety incident investigations to identify root cause and making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence

  • Constantly assessing opportunities for health and safety improvements and sharing best practice across the organisation

The successful Health and Safety Director will have:

  • Proven experience in a similar role, within construction, civil engineering or related environments

  • Leadership and management experience, with experience making changes across an organisation

  • A strong technical knowledge across Health and Safety legislation

  • NEBOSH or NCRQ Certificate, ideally Diploma and Membership of IOSH or other relevant professional body

If you are interested and would like to find out more, please contact Isla Robson on or 01923 432 801. Job reference: IR1518.

Irwin & Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company, based in the South East of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health and Safety Director through to Health and Safety Advisor positions.

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