Description of the job
What's involved with this role:
Health & Safety Principal Consultant - Environmental Services
Reference no: Bristol 5258574
Pay Rate: £45,718.00 per annum
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is Permanent
City: BRISTOL
On site and office, some scope (tbc) for hybrid working, but needs to be Bristol or local based.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the City Council’s Natural and Marine Environment Team in a lead Health and Safety role that delivers some of Bristol’s most high-profile services. Including:
Cemeteries and Crematoria
Marine Harbour Operations
Docks Engineering
Formal Parks
Play areas
Nature reserves
Sports facilities
Leisure and catering facilities
Retail Plant Nursery
Alongside significant and varied day to day operations to deliver these services, undertake major and specialist projects, and planned programmes to maintain and improve the quality and safety of the Natural and Marine Environment.
The successful applicant will work with numerous stakeholders to ensure a safe environment for service users, staff, contractors and residents. This is a rare opportunity to play a leading role and be part of a very dedicated team in some of the most important and visible services the Council offers to Bristol residents and visitors. Require someone who is motivated and passionate about addressing health, safety and wellbeing issues and is not daunted by working in a dynamic and developing service.
Qualifications:
Professionally Qualified – Graduate status with the IOSH.
Membership of Association for Project Safety
Knowledge:
Working knowledge of operational H&S Legislation
Experience:
Demonstrable experience in a health and safety environment
Ideally with experience in Marine, operational engineering and parks operation delivery.
Experience of undertaking audits and/or inspections of operational activities, contractors and workplaces to verify compliance with legislative requirements.
Risk management methodology, calculation and reporting experience.
Experience in devising and delivering a health, safety and wellbeing compliance programme.
Skills & Abilities:
Able to challenge staff and contractors’ performance to ensure they meet expectations and high safety standards.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.
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To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please