Senior HSEQ Officer

Banbridge, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

4/11/2025

Description

Senior HSEQ Officer The opportunity has arisen to join an industry leader in UKs Building Services sector. Alternative Heat design, develop and deliver a wide range of offsite-prefabricated, innovative, and sustainable building service solutions throughout the UK & Europe. We specialise in the design, supply, and installation of a wide range of prefabricated energy solutions, typically built in NI and shipped throughout the UK & Europe. We also offer turnkey design, build, and operate solutions for commercial energy centres and large-scale district heating solutions and have experience with successfully procuring and delivering many similar packages to a wide range of public bodies throughout UK & Europe. Role General assistance and support to the HSEQ Manager and department, ensuring safe practice, quality & environmental compliance on all sites controlled by Alternative Heat in liaison with site teams and relevant staff.

Experience

• Experienced HSEQ professional with considerable work experienced gained in the construction and M&E fabrication/installation sectors.
• Excellent people skills and experience
  
  

| Job Title | HSEQ Officer

| Location | Head Quarters Banbridge, Co Down

| Hours | 38 hrs per week; 8.00am to 5.00pm Mon to Thur & 8.00am to 3.00pm Friday

| Salary | Competitive depending on experience

| Responsible to | HSEQ Manager Key Responsibilities Core Responsibilities of the Role: As a key role within the HSEQ Team, your advice and support to Managers, supervisors, and colleagues will be instrumental to the improvement of the service the HSEQ department provides to the entire company workforce, subcontracted labour, other site workers and members of the public.

• To provide high level support and guidance to the HSEQ Manager, Project Managers and Supervisors.
• This role will be responsible for supporting the maintenance and continual improvement of the Integrated Management System (IMS) covering ISO9001, ISO14001 & ISO45001. Ensuring that our IMS is fully compliant against applicable standards.
• To develop a strong working relationship with all levels of employees and promote a culture of engagement and continual improvement.
• To provide coaching, mentoring and support and provide authoritative advice on the close out of actions.
• To support the delivery of Manager and Supervisor level company health and safety inductions. To identify knowledge or skills gaps (specific focus on safety, company policies and procedures) and implement supportive corrective actions to meet these needs to help ensure competency levels are attained and maintained.
• To provide support for site-based safety requirements liaising closely with contracts teams and taking ownership of HSEQ matters relevant to projects from outset to completion including the development and maintenance of the following:
• Site based HSEQ Management Plans
• Effective company safe systems of work, method statements & risk assessments (RAMS) construction phase plans, COSHH assessments etc. and ensure effective communication.
• Creation and delivery of site inductions & toolbox talks.
• Auditing
• Emergency preparedness and response requirements
• Coaching, Mentoring and Training site personnel.
• Ensuring all safety related incidents are investigated in a timely manner and continuous improvement initiatives are driven following incidents.
• Subcontractor management.
• Lead accident and incident investigation, utilising root cause analysis and provide advice to Operational teams on effective preventative measures to reduce risk.
• To undertake assigned work in a professional and efficient way, in compliance with current HSE legislation, regulatory requirements and the companys Integrated Management System.
• To attend necessary meetings as required.
• Review and record First Aid and spill kit provision across all sites.
• To participate in an Annual Joint Review.
  
  

The above list is not exhaustive and additional tasks may be required as directed. Criteria

Essential

• NEBOSH Level 3 Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety.
• Proven HSE experience for a minimum of 3 years.
• Experience of working in New Build and M&E construction environments.
• Experience of undertaking health and safety audits.
• Experience of creating RAMS for complex works.
• Knowledge of health and safety aspects, including legislation and technical standards.
• Accident and incident investigation experience.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational, planning and communication skills both verbal and written with the ability to deal with clients & internal staff.
• Ability to influence change and challenge those who flaunt H&S rules and guidance.
• Ability to work under pressure and on own initiatives to achieve self and team targets.
• Ability to proactively deal with employees all levels across the company to come up with solutions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Packages i.e., word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook etc
• Ability to travel to other sites across Ireland and the UK.
• Full UK Driving licence
  
  

Desirable:

• Chartered membership of IOSH or working towards it.
• NEBOSH Diploma or working towards it.
• ISO Knowledge (45001 9001, 14001)
• ISO internal auditing qualification
• Appointed person Qualification
• Train the Trainer Qualification
  
  

Given the ever-changing world of work and technologies, it is expected that lifelong learning, training and development is maintained, and training will be encouraged and facilitated to ensure skills are kept to the optimum levels required.

Employee Benefits

• Full in-house training and career development opportunities.
• Competitive pension scheme.
• Life assurance scheme.
• Health cash plan.
• Full access to smart wellbeing platform.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Free annual health check during working hours.
• Annual leave increasing in line with length of service.
• Lavish Long service awards
• Generously funded social events organised for all employees throughout the year via our Social and Wellbeing committee.
• Electric vehicle charging ports
• Full access to car emergency kit.
• Annual Christmas raffle
• Yearly allowance for AH Branded clothing merchandise
• Secure, free onsite parking.
• Dedicated departmental budget allocated annually for team building events during working hours
• Free Barista Style Coffee, Hot Chocolate, Tea, and Fruit provided daily.
• Friendly and supportive working environment in state-of-the-art facilities.
  
  

About Alternative Heat

With over 17 years of experience within the Commercial Offsite Fabrication industry, Alternative Heat have established themselves as a market leader in this sector.

Located centrally between Dublin and Belfast our 8.5 acre Head Office and feabrication facilities, which are fully equipped with overhead cranes and 8,000m of workshop floor area, provide an ideal factory construction environment which is reflected in the high quality solutions we offer.

We employ a strong team of design engineers, CAD technicians, contracts managers and skilled trades personnel who utilise their vast industry experience to assist in the design, fabrication and delivery of our bespoke MEP solutions, which we supply throughout the UK and Ireland.