Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ)
RPS Group
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You're a credible and experienced Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality driving the way RPS supports its employees, who has a proven track record of leading H&S delivery in a large and complex international organisation.
- You practise your expertise in a pragmatic way, supporting the businesses and their requirements.
- Clean UK driving license - the role requires travelling throughout our regions.
- You have at a minimum, the NEBOSH qualification at Level 6 or equivalent qualifications. It's also essential that you are a 'Graduate' Member of a relevant professional body.
- You will ensure appropriate health, safety and wellbeing training requirements are identified, the training cascaded and delivered, whilst you are facilitating legal/regulatory compliance and a safe working environment across RPS Services in the UK and Netherlands specifically.
- Reporting to the Services Leadership Team your work will involve ensuring a proactive Health & Safety culture is embedded across RPS.
- You will establish an effective compliance and performance framework where risks are identified and enabling a solutions-oriented focus.
- You will annually establish the direction and strategic priorities of the segment and monitor progress against these priorities.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that the segment successfully implements Group strategy for Health & Safety.
- Lead the operational HSEQ team of regional H&S Business Partners and Advisors across the UK and Netherlands
- Lead the business in continuous improvement of HSEQ policies and procedures
- Ensure a culture of best practice health and safety across all sites, ensuring full regulatory compliance
- Attend segment and division leadership meetings where required.
- Ensure activities across the network are properly risk assessed, managing a regular audit programme to evaluate performance
- Oversee the development and continuous improvement of management systems, seeking opportunities to improve and enhancing the overall health, safety, environment and quality strategy and performance
- Deliver relevant management reports on health and safety for the segment CEO and division MDs
- Work collaboratively with Business Partners across organisations to ensure best practice HSEQ solutions are shared throughout the business
- Contribute to driving sustainable culture change through the short and long-term planning of HSEQ activity and resources
- Develop and implement new working methods and initiatives to improve HSEQ performance across the business
We support our people to build meaningful careers. Here you'll find true support and encouragement. We're an accredited training provider and we support learning and development for everyone. A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you'll be supported as far as you want to go.RPS, a Tetra Tech company
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, in January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world's most complex problems.What happens next?
If we feel you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange a competency interview. If this opportunity suits your career journey, we'd love to hear from you. All applications will be considered. Ready to apply? Please have your CV ready and continue with your application online.
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Please note mandatory drugs and alcohol tests are undertaken for this role and a DBS check will be undertakenWe know we develop better solutions together.
That's why we're committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to 'make complex easy' - for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We're also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That's why we've created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.Recruitment Agencies
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