Equans UK & Ireland
Health & Safety Manager
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Equans Data Centers is seeking to appoint a Health & Safety Manager to support a Data Centre project in the South of England.
Role Overview
The Health & Safety manager will provide expert guidance to project teams, drive continuous improvement, and foster a proactive safety culture in data centers projects.
We are committed to providing cutting-edge solutions and ensuring that health and safety is a key element of our business strategy. We operate in a truly safe environment and embrace the ‘Equans 12 Gold Rules’ as part of our daily work.
What you will deliver?
- Promoting a safety-first culture in the business and ensure compliance with the company's Management System. Influence site management on best practice and compliance requirements.
- Ensure that all Health & Safety policies, procedures, rules, and regulations are adhered to and are regularly reviewed, updated, and communicated.
- Carrying out audits and routine inspections to report on the findings and recommendations to the project team.
- Advise project and site leadership to align safety practices with business strategy.
- Carrying out accident investigations and reporting back to project leads and HSQ Director.
- Carrying out Tool Box Talks regarding high-risk activities.
- Liaise with the supply chain regularly to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Report all Health and safety observations via SafetyLens.
- Lead audits, inspections, risk assessment, and management (RAMS, RACE) ensuring compliance with ISO 45001 regulations and internal policies.
- Exercise authority to stop unsafe work and provide expert advice throughout all project phases.
- Monitor, report, and analyze H&S performance, incidents, and trends, and implement corrective action and lessons learned.
- Deliver targeted training and onboarding support and manage records and work proactively with managers and other key staff to establish and maintain a programme of continuous improvement in the management of Health and Safety.
- Keep up to date with all aspects of relevant health, safety & welfare at work legislation and communicate relevant changes to the business.
- Drive sub-contractor performance.
What we can offer you?
On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:
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- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
- Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary
- Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
- Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
- Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to a mental wellbeing app
Who are we looking for?
A Health & Safety professional with strong teamwork and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively.
- Extensive knowledge of Health & Safety legislation and standards, including CDM Regulations, HSG65, and ISO 45001.
- Able to challenge when unsafe acts or behaviors are identified.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to write weekly summaries of site conditions.
- Proficient in delivering impactful training to groups.
- Skilled in creating and developing charts and graphs for monthly reports.
- Proficient in Health & Safety data systems with analysis tools and general IT applications including Excel and Pivot Tables.
- Strong analytical skills with a structured, accurate, and proactive problem-solving mindset.
- Previous construction experience.
- Ability to work on their own, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Experience of using PowerPoint and preparing presentations.
Who are we?
Equans Data Centers is a strategic data center partner. We deliver the whole data center, providing full general contracting for hyperscaler and colocation data center projects across Europe, through a single point of contact.
Leveraging Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans' experiences, we provide expertise in construction and engineering, global standardization, precision localization, and total control of the supply chain. This enables us to deliver data centers with the best possible quality, speed to delivery, and high repeatability and scalability – to realize client needs for cost transparency, low risk, continual availability, innovation, and certainty of planning and outcomes.
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With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees across 8 European countries, Equans Data Centres has delivered over 400,000m² of data halls, exceeding 640MW of IT space for major data centers providers such as VIRTUS Data Centers, Digital Reality, Equinix, Vantage Data Centers, Stack Infrastructure, Data4, and many others.
What’s next?
If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.
As part of our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals, and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.
At Equans, we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do; should you join Equans, you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.
You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a relocation package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.
The EQUANS Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team, not directly to EQUANS Managers.
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