Senior Health and Safety and Wellbeing Manager
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Occupation TypeHealth and safety managers and officers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s 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
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 9001, 14001 and 45001 in those Locations certified to the standard
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Grad professional status, or equivalent
- NEBOSH Diploma
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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.
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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equ
ality 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.