Job Title: Health and Safety Specialist
Location: Kildare, Ireland
Our company works across sectors such as Power, Natural Resources, Construction & Property.
The Leinster Regional Health and Safety Specialist will work closely with the Project Team ensuring current health and safety management system is implemented and project teams have necessary guidance, training and support they need.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* Maintaining health and safety management systems to ensure continued compliance with ISO standards.
* Carrying out inductions, producing monthly statistics and championing behaviour-based safety programme.
* Carrying out site audits and inspections, keeping up to date with changes in safety legislation and construction industry guidance.
* Ensuring personnel on site have pre-requisite training records, investigating, logging and monitoring of Incidents and Non-conformances.
* Identifying significant safety impacts for work areas and helping set-up appropriate controls, ensuring all safety records are kept and readily available.
* Preparing and presenting toolbox talks as and when required, reviewing subcontractor documentation.
Qualifications and Skills Required:
* Relevant 3rd level qualification in health and safety.
* Experience on civil engineering/construction sites.
* Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with one or more teams.
* Good written and spoken communication abilities.
* Good IT skills with a high attention to detail.
* Experience working on gas and electricity framework contracts and also civil projects (Knowledge and experience working in following areas: Excavations, crane lifting, temporary works, work at height, Confined Spaces traffic management etc.)
* Full clean drivers licence for visiting job sites.
Benefits:
* Competitive salary and benefits.
* Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review.
* Above market rate contributory pension scheme available from day one.
* Generous Private Healthcare Allowance.
* Training and development opportunities and ability to advance career and skillset.