Senior Health and Safety and Wellbeing Manager

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role drives the UK&I and Global Resilience Health Safety & Wellbeing (HS&W) strategy and agenda taking the lead within a specialist discipline and service area. It provides professional leadership across all resilience services within the Specialist & Scientists job families while maintaining personal competence and professional status. The position demonstrates the capability to influence both Arcadis business operations and the ongoing development of HS&W practices. Key responsibilities include identifying HS&W improvements that can create additional work scopes for project teams and clients thereby ensuring compliance. The role actively improves HS&W culture through engagement behaviours and expectations and brings thought leadership to both the business and clients. It focuses on cultivating insights and innovative solutions for clients and internal teams while positively leading and engaging with the HS&W agenda embracing diversity inclusion and wellbeing. Building and consolidating strong relationships with clients and colleagues is essential as is taking on HS&W lead roles for major projects and key clients when required. The role also supports risk management through independent technical reviews investigates HS&W-related client complaints and underperforming projects and follows up on review findings to drive continuous improvement.

Role accountabilities:

Strategy

• Develop country resilience HS&W Business Strategy and tactical in year plan with UK HS&W Leadership team this will also be in conjunction with the Global and Regional HS&W director and Country Director and operations manager.
• Produce and lead on the implementation plan across BAs resilience working closely with the Sector Managing Directors Business Directors. with a focus on objectives based on safety data trends
• Lead direct and manage the HS&W agenda with regards to the implementation of the resilience HS&W strategy
• Manage interfaces with internal stakeholders including GBAs Enabling functions and Corporate HS&W Team
• Engages with BDs to support and trouble shoot HS&W issues on projects.
• Provides technical and organizational leadership in the country Business Area. Support to HS&W country manager and country director.
• Ensures global HS&W strategy and GHSMSS is delivered consistently across the BA through the BA HS&W organization working together with the HS&W country manager and country director.
• Facilitates cross-business coordination within the BA and support and chairs its BA HS&W Team
• Integrate HS&W with internal stakeholders to ensure involvement and influence in BA level processes and initiatives.
• Motivate leadership and staff to meet HS&W goals and objectives and steward HS&W

Culture and Behaviours

• Encourages the right health and safety behaviors through engagement and demonstration of the Arcadis values.
• Helps to develop the cultural and behavioural approach for the UK.

Delivery

• Lead and deliver the safety agenda on large scale projects and key client programmes.
• Provide specialised health and safety services to external clients where required
• Improve client focus to BA resilience offer approach for clients and monitor clients HS&W to stay on top of the market. Identifies and assesses developments in the HS&W arena that may impact the BA
• Support coordination HS&W responsibilities are assigned and understood when working for clients in BA. Engage with internal or external client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project HS&W objectives and to establish protocols for working together.
• Support ensuring that client requirements are communicated to and understood by the staff of BA or client team.
• Communicate any client requirements that may need to be considered in establishing global GBA or national strategy and programs and consult when HS&W program information and performance data is needed for client requests for information or proposals.
• Assist in ensuring that the appropriate HS&W requirements and standards are identified and implemented on projects and programs.

Systems

• Develop procedures and safe working practices are kept under review and where necessary updated to reflect changes in the legislation or best practice.
• Involved in establishing country H&S goals and objectives consistent with the Global H&S strategic direction.
• Establish and agree to key H&S performance targets and possibly financial budgets for the in-country H&S team in order to optimize business performance in line with set objectives.
• Report progress on countries H&S performance based on globally established goals and objectives. Able to identify and adjust strategy when targets are lagging.

Risk

• Identifies hazards and risks associated with projects ensuring that the health and safety documentation is in place to manage and control these issues.
• Involved in the review and identification of project H&S hazards and risks for input in HASP and HARC at a business unit level.

Assurance

• Undertakes assurance activities to ensure H&S Compliance within the Business Unit.
• Responsible for the completion of inspections audits by team members that all issues are monitored closed out and reported.
• Prepare and attend external audits with regards to the conformance with ISO and 45001 in those Locations certified to the standard
• Manage H&S issues for identified by assurance activities and ensure that actions are closed and communicated across all areas.
• Provide documentation expertise and advice on all H&S matters in relation to bidding and business development in the region

Reporting

• Develop agree with the GBA and report on leading indicators in line with HS&W Strategy for the project ensuring that there is a similar approach across the organisation.
• Monitor SHE performance through SHE data provided and report against objectives and targets
• Increase cultural health and safety maturity; Drive continuous improvement in all aspects of HS&W
• Involved in establishing country HS&W goals and objectives consistent with the Global HS&W strategic direction.

Competence and Training

• Responsible for expert input and advice around Learning and Development with specific regard to resilience HS&W related course content and courses that relate to how Arcadis delivers business

Innovation

• Working collaboratively with other consultants contractors and government regulators to roll out leading edge developments and best practice
• Responsible for identifying and delivering initiatives and campaigns that will support activities and promote health and safety.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Grad professional status or equivalent
• NEBOSH Diploma

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age Disability Faith Gender LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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