Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager
Orion Group · Scotland, Western Isles, Stornoway ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Management
Orion Group are working with a well respected and successful Construction & Infrastructure client seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager to join their Regional - Energy team, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
As the HSW Manager you will lead the day‑to‑day delivery of Health & Safety across the project, ensuring policies and standards are consistently applied and risks are effectively managed.
You’ll oversee HSW resources using a risk‑based approach, provide assurance through audits and inspections, support bids and work‑winning, and work closely with operational leaders to drive strong HSW performance, incident management and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.
As the HSW Manager you will lead the day‑to‑day delivery of Health & Safety across the project, ensuring policies and standards are consistently applied and risks are effectively managed.
You’ll oversee HSW resources using a risk‑based approach, provide assurance through audits and inspections, support bids and work‑winning, and work closely with operational leaders to drive strong HSW performance, incident management and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing
- Manage day to day Health and Safety resources to support Operations
implement the Health and Safety Policy and standards across all BUs in
their area of responsibility. - Manage the resource allocation and deployment of competent HS&E
delivery resource across their area of responsibility, ensuring resource
utilisation data is collected and made available to implement a risk-based
support schedule. - Support work winning and bid support for the operational teams, where
required. - Manage the programme of inspection and audit to provide assurance that all
BUs continue to comply with company requirements. - Fulfil HS&E, Customer and business incident reporting and
performance requirements (7 Day Report, KPIs,) and act as incident lead if
required. - In collaboration with Project Director/Head of Operations Directors, carry out
project and business sector HS&E performance reviews using lagging and
leading indicators. - Support the Operations/Project Director with contract/project level SHELTs
to drive and deliver HS&E improvement plans. - Maintain up to date knowledge of developments in Health and Safety
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- Corporate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or
working towards) - NVQ Level 4/5 (or equivalent qualification/experience).
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate / Diploma.
- Must have detailed, technical knowledge and experience health and safety
legislation, regulations and guidance. - Construction industry experience (or experience in an equivalent sector)
and in particular CDM (where work within a specific construction sector
experience is advantageous then specify). - Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to
operational and functional teams.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.