Head of Health & Safety and Quality Management

Role Purpose:

• To lead and proactively manage Health and Safety on behalf of the Director of DPD (design planning & development) and the Board to ensure compliance with UK regulatory and statutory standards and achieve agreed business outcomes and performance targets that represent industry leading practice.
• To own and continuously improve the strategies, systems, processes, controls and capabilities required to manage Health and Safety.
• Responsible for all accidents/ incident investigations.
• To ensure new projects and programmes follow the Health and Safety and Quality Management strategies, systems, processes and control investigations.
• Responsible, in conjunction with the Commercial team, for the proactive management of Health and Safety and quality Management related Suppliers against contracted time, cost, quality and performance obligations.
• Responsible, in conjunction with the Finance team, for the proactive management of Health and Safety and Quality Management budget in accordance with company policies.

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of health and safety legislation, obligations and best practice.
• Significant and extensive experience of establishing and leading large-scale safety, environmental and quality management
• Strong safety and quality culture background in a large cross functional organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of quality management systems, methodologies and principles.
• Significant experience of managing retained resources and working with partners to deliver large and highly complex programmes of work safely to agreed time, cost and quality targets.
• A proven track record in continuous improvement and an understanding of how to lead and manage high performance teams

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