Health and Safety Business Unit Lead (Construction)

Health and Safety Business Unit Lead (Construction) UK, Watford (With site travel) | £75,000 + Car + Benefits Irwin & Stone has been engaged by a major building contractor to recruit a Health and Safety Business Unit Lead. The company is currently completing a broad range of major construction and civil engineering projects including major commercial projects and high rise apartment blocks. This role is focused on leading the health and safety agenda for the business unit, with a turnover of £250m across the south of the UK. Specifically, this organisation is looking for a creative, innovative, individual with new ideas, particularly around occupational health and wellbeing, which can ensure their award-winning safety program continues to deliver to the highest standard. It is essential candidates for this role have a proven track record of engaging and influencing senior management, ideally at board level. Responsibilities will include: • Working with the Health and Safety Director to develop and continually refine the health and safety strategy • Leading the Health and Safety Team ensuring the delivery of the strategy on site • Influencing, engaging and coaching key internal and external stake holders to effect change • Conducting major incident investigation to identify root cause and making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence • Constantly assessing opportunities for improvements and sharing best practice across the organisation The successful candidate will have: • Proven leadership experience in a similar role ideally within construction or civil engineering or a related industry • Experience in influencing, engaging and coaching senior management and site level operations • A NEBOSH / NCRQ Diploma or NVQ5 (or equivalent) and Chartership of IOSH • Experience with innovative occupational health, wellbeing and behavioral programmes This position will require an individual who is passionate about health and safety and high performance. The position will require the ability to travel regularly to site