2 Senior Health & Safety Managers – 2 New Birmingham HS2 Stations (Curzon / Interchange)

Are you an Experienced Health & Safety Manager with experience on large complex Infrastructure / construction projects and interested in working on Europe’s largest infrastructure project HS2?  Interested in individuals with project experience on large construction / infrastructure projects.  Open to Qualified Health & Safety professionals from a range of backgrounds – Rail, Civil, Power, Nuclear, Airports, Stations, Infrastructure, complex building etc

2 Senior Health & Safety Manager are required to work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two Ltd) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK. The roles are based within HS2 Stations programme with one being working on the New Build of £570m Curzon Street Station in Birmingham city centre and the other responsible for the New Build of £370m Birmingham Interchange Station near Birmingham Airport.  Both Stations are major buildings of national importance, challenging stakeholders, complex buildings, large design & build projects with 4/5 years programmes of work.

The Senior Health & Safety Managers will be responsible for H&S leadership on each Station, leading by example and setting the correct culture, embedding the ‘Safe at heart’ culture across the integrated project team including the supply chain.

£570m Curzon Street Station, Birmingham’s new flagship high speed railway station, £570m Curzon Street Station, which, will be signature building of national importance, it will be largest building in Birmingham with a 70m-wide arched roof.  This is a complex unconventional building utilising state of the art building systems, this Landmark project will be the first brand new intercity terminus station built in Britain since the since the 19th Century.

£370m Birmingham Interchange Station is truly a landmark station which will be built to BREAAM excellent standard a world first for a railway station, situated on a 150-hectare site, consisting of four 415m platforms & architecturally significant roof.  The station will be an integrated transport hub with an Automatic Passenger Mover linking NEC, Birmingham International Station & Birmingham Airport.  This project has recently moved to site.

Successful Candidates will have:

• Analysis Skills – Highlight where you have used analysis to identify problems (hidden or otherwise) – this could be analysis of incidents or near misses or analysis of ways of working – have you identified the common issue?
• Problem Solving – evidence examples where you solved problems, highlighted better ways of working, used logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Leadership of team / stakeholders – where you have demonstrated Health and Safety Leadership on a project or framework could be a team you directly manage or a collection of stakeholders you pulled together, impowered them to work together (collaboration) to solve a common problem / common goal.

• Health & Safety Qualifications – A professional qualification in Health and Safety or able to demonstrate the equivalent experience of a Chartered Member.

• Health & Safety Background – complex large infrastructure/construction projects both in design development as well as construction phases.
• Health & Safety By Design – Identifying, eliminating and reducing risks to safety and health through design can lead to significant risk reduction during construction, operations and maintenance

 
Working Relationship – Co-located

Both roles are based from site with the main contractor joint ventures working alongside HS2 in the same office in integrated project teams.   The role requires individuals with the correct behaviours/ leadership skills – collaboration, engagement, stakeholder management skills who are able to drive the best from the relationship, pick up on problems as they arrive and resolve quickly rather than waiting and reviewing once the problem has manifested. 

Working Situation – Hybrid

Site office locates, HS2 operate a flexible hybrid working model with 3 days a week from site.  Overall, this is a very flexible modern employer.

Salary  

Senior Health & Safety Manager            £70 – 75,000 + Pen (6:12) + health + 25 days 

Duties & Responsibilities

• To be accountable for role modelling and embedding ‘Safe at Heart’ culture and ways of working throughout delivery.
• To be responsible for supporting risk based Health, Safety and Security operational assurance within the development and delivery areas.
• To be accountable for overseeing and ensuring compliance to centrally defined Safety and Assurance processes and policies across:
• Occupational Health
• Safety
• Security
• To be responsible for supporting the investigation of Health, Safety, Security incidents within delivery areas.
• To be accountable for facilitating the provision of Health, Safety and Security services and advice to support development & delivery teams.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Require Criteria

The role requires a qualified Senior Health & Safety Manager with experience on large complex Infrastructure / construction projects during the delivery stage.  Open to Qualified Health & Safety professionals, ideally chartered or working towards, from a range of backgrounds – Rail, Civil, Power, Nuclear, Airports, Stations etc.

Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate:

• Health & Safety Leadership
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving

The candidates can be from client, consultant or indeed main contractor and have the correct behaviours to manage the unique structure of the project (co-located in the same offices) – Collaborative, open communicator, proactive & Integrator.