What you’ll be doing
as the Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing - Construction Safety
1. Act as the organisation’s lead competent person on CDM 2015 and construction health, safety and well-being. Support designers and project teams during pre-construction, manage statutory notifications (F10), assess contractor competence, and coordinate health and safety information.
2. Coordinate risk reviews during design stages to identify buildability hazards and ensure appropriate design risk mitigation.
3. Conduct inspections, audits, and assurance activities across construction sites to verify compliance with company standards and CDM duties.
4. Develop and enforce site-specific HSE arrangements, including permit-to-work, RAMS validation, toolbox talks, and emergency planning.
5. Facilitate HOP-informed learning activities such as “work-as-done” reviews, learning teams, and after-action reviews—shifting culture from blame to systemic learning.
6. Partner with delivery teams to integrate safety into work planning, ensuring systems are designed to anticipate error and support workforce adaptability.
7. Lead investigations with a focus on understanding context and conditions, applying root cause analysis that aligns with HOP principles and supports continuous improvement.
8. Deliver inspiring safety briefings, inductions, and multi-disciplinary forums to enhance cultural ownership of safety and wellbeing.
9. Maintain and report on safety performance metrics, audit results, inspection records, and CDM compliance documentation.
Base location: Reading - Hybrid
Working pattern: 36 Hours
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
10. NEBOSH Construction Certificate. (minimum); NEBOSH Diploma or Masters degree preferred.
11. Membership of IOSH or equivalent.
12. Professional membership with a relevant body. (e.g., APS, IIRSM, ICE H&S Register)
13. Recognised qualification in Occupational Health & Safety, Construction Management, or Engineering. (minimum HND-level or equivalent)
14. Extensive experience in UK construction HSW roles. With CDM 2015 responsibilities.
15. Demonstrable knowledge of UK construction hazards and safety risk controls.
16. Proven delivery of HOP tools in construction or high-risk environments.
17. Track record of conducting audits, inspections, and leading incident investigations.
18. Confident communicator and facilitator with experience running safety briefings, workshops, and stakeholder engagements.
19. Strong digital literacy, including use of safety management platforms.
20. CDM 2015 competency: experience fulfilling Principal Designer, Client Adviser, and general CDM Adviser roles.
21. Strong understanding of UK CDM regulations, able to implement compliance structures and lead design and construction safety coordination.
22. Construction site safety expertise: risk assessments, safety inspections, permit-to-work systems, toolbox talks, and emergency response planning.
23. Incident investigation skills: root cause analysis driven by HOP principles. Capability to lead no-blame reviews and learning-focused after-action assessments.
24. Competent in design-phase reviews, competence assessments, and statutory notifications.
What’s in it for you?
25. Competitive salary offering up to £90,000 per annum, depending on experience.
26. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
27. Car Allowance.
28. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
29. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
30. Private Medical Health Care.
31. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.