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Health & Safety Consultant / Senior

Salary
Location Birmingham
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

What’s the Opportunity

The Construction Health and Safety Team is an expanding group of technically skilled specialists at Ridge. We specialise in the provision of the fullest range health and safety advice for the construction sector. We work across a range of businesses and in sectors as diverse as commercial, healthcare, science, industry, energy, and education.

The role is Senior H&S Consultant within the Birmingham H&S team, leading on delivery of CDM and construction health and safety services to clients.  You will be required to independently offer H&S/CDM services and be confident dealing with various stakeholders to deliver projects and help ensure compliance with the duties of the CDM regulations 2015.

You will be a key member of this close-knit team. Your knowledge and skills will contribute to the growth and success of this developing and growing team as we work together to deliver robust solutions to meet our clients’ health and safety objectives, aims and aspirations.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

  • Capability to offer a variety of health & safety/ CDM services to a diverse client base.
  • Familiarity with all associated documentation relating to CDM 2015 e.g CPPs, PCIs, H&S file etc. and ensure that the documents are updated on a regular basis.

In this role you will be:

  • Liaising with various stakeholders on projects client, principal contractor, architect, design team and keeping them updated in relation to H&S/ CDM matters.
  • Carrying out site inspections/compliance audits and accident investigations when required.
  • Developing existing client relationships and building new ones.

Role responsibilities

  • Work primarily on CDM commissions.
  • Commercial awareness - repeat and new business opportunities and to escalate these to senior management.
  • Awareness of the value of, and starting to grow, a network of contacts is also important.
  • High technical and commercial standards must be established and maintained as quality of work and ‘added value’ for our clients are priorities.
  • Under supervision the role includes the ability to contribute to and develop bid submissions and fee proposals.
  • Being aware of new work opportunities and potential new clients, as well as maintenance of existing clients.
  • You will need to work closely with all members of the firm who could be either clients or collaborators.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

  • Communication skills (verbal and written) requirements:
  • Written communication involves reports, pre-construction information and health & safety files.
  • Verbal communication involves attendance at meetings and client facing discussions.
  • Presentation skills for bid pitch and training provision.

IT skills

  • Ability to use SharePoint and other technology as required by the business/clients.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Personal characteristics required

Scope of Role and Impact

  • Requires limited supervision to contribution.
  • Role model and mentor to others.
  • Take on wider responsibility and accountability for driving projects while communicating effectively.

Technical or Functional Expertise

  • Ability to be flexible in balancing health and safety risks with cost and programme whilst maintaining legal compliance.
  • An appetite for self-development and learning.
  • Confident application of academic learning.
  • Proactively apply the techniques learned.

What You Deliver

  • Arrange work to fit team goals.
  • Professional and responsive with clients.

How You Deliver

  • Clear about personal contribution to team.
  • Have a plan and direction for development.
  • Positively provide feedback to colleagues.
  • You are generous with time.
  • Adapt own ideas in response to feedback and requests.

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.

Ridge core values  1. Quality and reliability  Pressing for superior results - every time.     2. Agile and flexible  Deep listening, a true understanding and workable, bespoke solutions in response.     3. Proactive and creative  One step ahead, we dare to imagine a brighter world.     4. Entrepreneurial and dynamic  Our inner spirit for learning, discovery and innovation inspires opportunities.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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