Health and Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager

Portsmouth | £60,000 - £65,000 + car allowance and excellent benefits

Irwin and Colton has been engaged by a high-profile civil engineering contractor to recruit their new Health and Safety Manager. The role focused on helping to ensure the safe delivery of major, long term water utility contracts across the Portsmouth & Hampshire area. This organisation have an excellent track record of health and safety and this role is critical to it's continued success.


Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Manager will include:

• Implementing health and safety policies and procedures on site, ensuring compliance and keeping updated with key changes to legislation
• Visiting site and engaging with advisors, ensuring responsibilities are clear and answering technical Health and Safety related enquires
• Conducting audits, inspections, and accident investigations. Constantly seeking areas for improvement and development in health and safety performance
• Engaging with the client and other external stakeholders, acting as a key point of contact

The successful Health and Safety Manager candidate will have:

• Proven experience in a similar role ideally within civil engineering or utilities
• A NEBOSH or NCRQ Certificate, ideally hold or working towards NEBOSH Diploma, and ideally membership of IOSH
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
• A strong technical knowledge across relevant health and safety legislation, compliance and regulations

A UK Driver's license is essential. Contact Leon Robinson on or 01923 432 689. Job Ref: LOD4718

Irwin and Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company based in the Southeast of England, recruiting 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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