Regional Health and Safety Lead

Ardmac is an award-winning international construction specialist that delivers complex high value workspaces and technical environments. We've been leading the way for over 40 years consistently providing the ultimate solution for high value working environments through our continuous investment into the best people, technology, and processes.

Join the team at Ardmac to gain experience in an environment of respect, professionalism and high collaboration teams. Competitive salaries and benefits packages are available as well as the opportunity to enhance learning and development for future growth.

About the Role

The Regional Health and Safety Lead, will oversee several projects, providing competent health and safety leadership, advice, support, challenge and assurance across live projects within the designated region. The role also expects appropriate project cover for members of the health and safety team during absence, vacancies, mobilisation periods, periods of increased risk or workload, and other business needs. Candidates must have at least seven years' experience in construction health and safety and a strong understanding of French construction safety regulations. Experience of UK, Belgian or Dutch regulations would be advantageous.

What You’ll Be Doing

Regional leadership and support

• Provide visible regional health and safety leadership
• Act as the principal regional source of competent health and safety advice, support and constructive challenge
• Support the BU Regional Director and project leaders in understanding risks, legal obligations and required controls
• Promote consistent implementation of agreed standards and share good practice across regional projects
• Maintain effective working relationships with project teams, regional functions and health and safety colleagues
• Provide appropriate short-term health and safety cover for regional team members during annual leave, sickness, vacancies, mobilisation, peak workload or other agreed absence
• Maintain continuity of essential project health and safety support, including attendance at key meetings, site engagement, inspections, advice, escalation and handover of significant matters
• Deliver the agreed risk-based regional health and safety inspection, audit and assurance programme
• Monitor regional trends, leading indicators, repeat findings and systemic weaknesses
• Verify the effectiveness of corrective actions and upscale overdue, inadequate or ineffective responses
• Provide accurate and timely regional health and safety performance information and assurance reports.

Incident response and learning

• Provide specialist support and oversight for significant incident investigations within the region
• Support robust root-cause analysis and the identification of effective corrective and preventative actions

Capability and professional leadership

• Coach and support regional health and safety personnel and operational leaders
• Assess regional health and safety capability and competence against agreed expectations

What We are Looking For

Essential

• Appropriate professional health and safety qualification and demonstrable construction or engineering experience
• Strong knowledge of relevant health and safety legislation, management systems and risk-control principles
• Experience of providing competent advice, assurance and constructive challenge to operational teams
• Ability to lead and influence across a matrix and to educate concerns with clarity and sound judgement
• Experience of audits, inspections, incident investigation and corrective-action verification
• Credibility with senior regional leaders, project teams, clients and health and safety professionals
• Strong knowledge of French safety legislation, including the French Labour Code and construction-site safety requirements
• NEBOSH Diploma, IOSH qualification, or equivalent recognised HSE qualification; relevant French HSE qualifications advantageous

Language requirements

• The position will require effective communication with site teams, clients and authorities across France and the Benelux region.
• Fluent French and English, both written and spoken, are required.
• Knowledge of Dutch would be advantageous.

Desirable

• Chartered or equivalent professional status, or demonstrable progress toward it
• Experience across multiple projects, countries or regulatory jurisdictions
• Experience of developing health and safety professionals and regional capability
• Experience in data centres, pharmaceutical, life sciences, cleanrooms or similar projects would be highly desirable