Health & Safety Manager

The HSE Managers position will be responsible for the overall management of our client's compliance processes. The position will be based in either Northern Ireland or the Central Belt of Scotland.

The position will be responsible for the following:

Oversight:

• The person must be in coordination with business leaders, providing knowledge and education on Health and Safety regulations
• Has a working knowledge of company drug and alcohol processes
• Ability to communicate and write company HSE policies.
• Has the ability to effectively manage others.
• Can actively manage the various safety management databases.
• Provides problem resolution that results in changes and/or enhancements to process and/or project.
• Independently applies knowledge to resolve problems in timely manner.
• Contributes to problem identification and solution by analysis.
• Has the ability to work with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance.
• Assist in the building of Platform training documents.
• Demonstrates the ability to plan and implement process projects in a timely manner.
• Owns divisional emergency preparedness processes.
• Can effectively manage workplace incidents to a resolution.
• Effectively work and communicate with all levels of the company.
• Create, manage, and review site specific safety plans.

Qualification Requirements

For the successful performance of this position, an individual must be able to achieve and/or perform the essential duties of the position. Listed below are representative requirements for job knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience:

The individual will possess a minimum of 5-10 years of progressive quality experience. Experience working with regulatory agencies, external auditors and internal clients is a must ideally in a Utilities Environment. The individual must have safety training experience.

• Language Skills: Ability to read, analyse, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; draft reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; effectively present information to individuals or groups (management, clients, customers, general public) and respond to questions.
• Reasoning Skills: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where limited standardization exists and interpret various instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Leadership Skills: Position requires individual to have strong interpersonal skills with ability to motivate and empower, to be a strong communicator able to take initiative and function independently. Must be capable of making people management decisions and comfortable in a management position.
• Personal Attributes: Position requires the individual to be a self-starter and able to work with minimal supervision.

Physical Demands / Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands: In the performance of duties for this position, the employee is: regularly required to sit, talk, and hear; frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, occasionally required to stand, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, and taste or smell; regularly lift and/or move objects. Vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, peripheral, and colour vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Ability for extended concentration.
• Work Environment: In performing the duties for this job, the employee will generally work in an office type environment but will occasionally be required to work in outside weather conditions (occasionally near job sites with moving vehicles and mechanical operations). Will be occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level is usually moderate. Travel by automobile and aeroplane will be required.