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To manage and advise on all matters concerning H&S within the business at all levels, ensuring that the business is proactively managing safety and providing a positive environment for the well-being of all its staff and stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead all business issues relating to H&S.
• Provide advice and direction to the Senior Leadership Team on H&S matters.
• Leader in the development of H&S policies. Develop, maintain, and implement company H&S procedures / SSOW’s to ensure best practice is maintained.
• Supporting the Senior Leadership Team in promoting a positive H&S culture.
• Responsible for managing and reporting statistical H&S performance to the board of directors, analysing the data and advising the needed strategic, managerial & practical improvement areas.
• Helping the management to foster a learning organisation mindset, advising how to learn from our incident, our positive interventions & best practices.
• Responsible for H&S regulatory and procedural compliance in the UK.
• Leading the investigation of our incidents to ensure that appropriate root causes are identified and targeting the continuous learning and improving in our operations.
• Actively share and seek best practices, learnings exchanging with other UK BU’s, the Menard Group and the Federation of Piling Specialists.
• Undertake regular visits to site and yard to support our operation teams and ensure that we are embedding our company values.
• Building close and strong relations to our operational teams in order to provide efficient support and leadership.
• Mentor staff at all levels in H&S matters. Provide advice and guidance on the training requirements to the management for all levels of the business regarding H&S matters.
• Provide regular support to the project teams and the plant yard.
• Liaise with clients and supply chain partners on H&S matters.
• Ensure a relentless focus on safety – WORKSAFE HOMESAFE.

The role requires the individual to be or working towards being a Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH).

Experience of managing Health and Safety at a management level, in the construction sector. The individual will be both focussed and thorough and have the gravitas and professional credibility to advise senior management when something needs immediate redress together with the tenacity and drive to ensure that the necessary action is taken. 

Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.  The individual should have the ability to deal with other stakeholders in demanding circumstances to ensure the best outcomes for all.

The individual should have a desire to continuously pursue innovation and development in connection with Health & Safety, with a focus on the development of an improved culture of safety.

Menard brings over 30 years of experience in the design and build of specialist ground improvement solutions in the UK. We offer a broad range of ground improvement techniques and combined with innovative designs we can provide practical and sustainable solutions which are more cost effective than traditional piles. We pride ourselves in being able to deliver solutions for a wide range of soil conditions and provide a seamless service between initial contact and delivery on site.

We view every project as a unique challenge. Our approach is to question the norm and understand what your needs are where we can add value to your overall project delivery. Our people’s expertise in geotechnics will be used to provide you with the most economical solution that guarantees technical performance.