H&S Support Specialist

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are accepting applications until 16th October 2024

Role description:

The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of the SHEQS business plan and program and the administration of the team, raising PO, and managing the UK SHEQS budget. Engages and promotes SHEQS activities through the HS&W co-ordinations. Attendance statutory meetings and acts as the secretariat. Supports in the development of campaigns and initiatives. Keeps an overview of the completion of the business plan and task tracker. Support the process that ensures the UK accreditations (i.e. ISO, CHAS, SSIP, etc) related to health, safety, and wellbeing are supported, assured, maintained, and externally verified. To support the development of the SHEQS UK Intranet pages. To support the SHEQ inbox and the supporting individuals.

This role can be based in any office location in the United Kingdom (but the preference of London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester)

Role accountabilities:

Accreditation

• Support and maintain the accreditation portals and scheme POC.
• Supports the hosting of external audits for business-critical H&S schemes (incl. SMAS, Safe Contractor, CHAS, RISQS, Achilles, Construction online and CQMS)
  
  

Administration

• To support the delivery of the SHEQS business plan and program
• To support the administration of the team, raise PO, and manage the UK SHEQS budget.
• Engages and promotes SHEQS activities through the HS&W co-ordinations
• Attendance statutory meetings and act as the secretariat
• To support the development of the SHEQS UK Intranet pages
  
  

Reporting

• Supports the production of monthly, and quarterly reports for Board, UK LT, XBA, and BU-specific HS&W information.
  
  

Culture and Behaviours

• Assists in the development of the HS&W approach from both psychosocial, physical health, and safety approaches to encouraging the right behaviors and culture.
• Encourages the right health and safety behaviors through engagement and demonstration of the Arcadis values.
• Inputs and considers the contributing factors related to occupational health and wellbeing in all HS&W aspects, from the data and information collated during reporting processes.
  
  

Innovation and Campaigns

• Working collaboratively with other consultants, contractors, and government regulators to roll out leading-edge developments and best practice
• Responsible for identifying and delivering initiatives and campaigns that will support activities and promote health and safety.
• Produce HS&W alerts and lessons learnt for all incidents on the project – developing a set of visual and essential standards
  
  

Engagement and communications

• Supports the SHEQ Inbox management and distribution
• Ensure that there are consistent H&S communications, with information available on the Arcadis Intranet.
  
  

General

• Provide Health & Safety advice to our teams across the UK
• Generate and promote awareness and understanding of H&S at all levels in the country
• Ensures global H&S strategy and GHSMSS is delivered consistently across the BA through the BA H&S organization working together with the H&S country manager and country director.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline, including psychology
• Grad professional status, or equivalent
• Thorough understanding of one or more sectors
• Effective project management, client relationship management, and commercial skills
• Promote and demonstrate proactive Health and Safety leadership capability and the ability to inspire Arcadis staff on every level around the common purpose; growth of our proactive Health and Safety culture and international client recognition for our H&S achievements and services.
• Holds a professional Health & Safety degree in any Arcadis-based country and has a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in H&S related to Arcadis business.
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+, and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.