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

Interested in qualified Senior Health & Safety professionals with experience on large complex design & build projects in a wide range or sectors- Rail, manufacturing, utilities, Civil, aggregates, waste, Power, Nuclear, Airports, Stations, Infrastructure, complex building, facilities, council, universities etc to work on a pivotal Senior Health & Safety role responsible for H&S on 2 New Railway Station Builds on High Speed Two the largest infrastructure project in Europe.

The roles focus will be Health & Safety during the Design Planning stage, particularly Interested in H&S professionals with Health & Safety by Design - early planning, design stage, mitigating risks in design stage before you get to site & occupational Health & Safety reducing risk for operations and maintenance staff in the end state of an asset.

The Senior Health & Safety Manager will work for the Client Organisation (High Speed Two Ltd) responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK. The role will be responsible for the Health & Safey leadership on 2 New HS2 Stations projects:- £570m Curzon Street Station in Birmingham city centre and the £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. The joint venture teams on each station will have their own Health & Safety teams this role sets the strategy and provides leadership setting he correct culture.

£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. The project has start the early construction phase with piling happening on site but still a lot of design to do.

£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. The project is in design stage with early trail holes being dug on site.

Successful Candidates will have:

• 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.
• 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 – superb influencing skills are key.
• Occupational Health – understanding of occupational health, especially in the operations and maintenance – ops & maintenance role analysis is being undertaken to reduce occupation health risks of the end state railway.
• Health & Safety Culture – The Rail system Alliance will have more than 15 companies to build 1 railway – a common culture, ways of working, strategy, delivery must align with companies working consistently with common goals, beliefs and culture – therefore being able to influence & embed the correct culture, across the whole alliance is essential for success.
• 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.
• Health & Safety Qualifications – A professional qualification in Health and Safety equiv to NEBOSH diploma.

 
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

Required Criteria

Looking for a Qualified Senior Health & Safety Manager, equiv NEBOSH Diploma with experience on large complex design & build projects in a wide range or sectors - Rail, manufacturing, utilities, Civil, , waste, aggregate, Power, Nuclear, Airports, Stations, Infrastructure, complex building, facilities, council, universities etc

Individuals will have experience pf mitigating risk at design/planning stage as well as construction delivery.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate Leadership and the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders and develop and embed successful Health & Safety culture.  You will have experience and understanding of managing occupational health in operations & maintenance of an asset.  And have used analysis skills & tools to identify risks and problems and successfully resolve or reduce those risks and complex problems,

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.