Health and Safety Advisor

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Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland GMC Utilities Group Full time

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The Role.

GMC are currently looking for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join our team.

The successful Health and Safety Advisor will be supporting the delivery of projects across all aspects of the business from a Health and Safety point of view. A strong ethos on health and safety, compliance, reporting, and documentation are essential qualities.

Roles Available:

Mid-Level Health and Safety Advisor for the Greater Dublin and South Leinster Region

Key Duties and Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

Ability to conduct Site Surveying and Setting Out
Provide health and safety training to employees including but not limited to manual handling, toolbox talks and safety induction.
Previous experience conducting safety inspections and audits.
Approaches accident prevention and protection of the environment in a positive manner with the ability to initiate and maintain this positive manner with effective and efficient measures to raise safety, health and environmental standards and awareness.
Assist in the preparation of reports on occurrences and provide statistical information to management.
Implement the company's health, safety and environmental policy, procedures, and management systems.
Assist in the maintenance of Health & Safety KPIs to help drive improvement in all related matters.
Support management in the development of H&S procedures, policies, and programs.
Work as part of the HSQE team to ensure the provision of a safe and productive work environment.
Always seek to improve the standard of Health & Safety in a practical manner within the company management system and on specific sites.
Monitor and enforce the implementation of Health & Safety Management System.
Identify site specific hazards and ensure they are addressed in the site documentation and in a practical manner on the site.
Ensure clear lines of communication are maintained to the H&S Manager.
Ensure the site folders and statutory records are being maintained.
Ensure strict adherence to site rules by all.
Assist site management to comply with statutory H&S requirements.
Assist Health & Safety Manager to develop and implement Risk assessments and improvements to the Safe Systems of Work.
Assist H&S Manager and Site management to coordinate the safe systems of work for all.
Carry out H&S auditing on site and address non-conformances as they are identified with site management and contractors.
Contribute to accident and incident investigation.
Identify training needs on site for GMC personnel and contractors.
Ad hoc tasks as needed by the wider business.

The Candidate: Required Experience and Competencies:

Full clean driver's license essential.
A 3rd level qualification in Health and Safety is desirable.
Civils, drainage, or utilities (water & electricity) experience.
Confident, motivated and can work independently as well as part of a team.
Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines.
Time management abilities to meet targets.
Good communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
Integrity and respect for confidentiality and privacy.
Strong relationship builder and ability to leverage key relationships across the full spectrum of project stakeholders and statutory bodies.
Ability to manage risk and implement control measures.
Able to work and build strong relationships with contractors from various backgrounds and trades.

Become a part of something bigger.

At the heart of GMC is our people, from engineers through to customer service and we aim to work collaboratively towards our common goals.

GMC is an equal opportunity employer, and we aim to recruit and retain like-minded people from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of expertise.

In GMC we foster a work culture that promotes collaboration and learning, building an environment where our people have the capacity to maximise their potential whilst gaining the opportunity to continuously develop.

Our Future.

Since the founding of GMC in 1981 by Gerry McCloskey, GMC has grown to be Ireland's leading Civils and Utilities company and the future for GMC is bright. We have engaged with our staff and other stakeholders to agree and publish our core values.

One of our core values is to "Focus on the Future".

Our growth to date reflects the confidence that our customers have in our service delivery, in the innovative approach that we bring to how we do our work, and to our culture of safety and quality.

We have ambitious plans to develop our footprint in Ireland and overseas but understand that every decision we make contributes to people's quality of life throughout generations, and we don't take that responsibility lightly as we build Ireland's infrastructure of tomorrow, today.Seniority level

Seniority levelNot Applicable

Employment type

Employment typeFull-time

Job function

Job functionManagement and Manufacturing
IndustriesUtilities

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