Description
This is an opportunity to play a significant leadership role within WSP's Property & Buildings Portfolio, partnering with senior business leaders to shape strategy, influence performance and drive continual improvement in health and safety outcomes across a complex and growing business.
As a Portfolio Health & Safety Lead, you will provide strategic H&S leadership across our UK Property & Buildings, P&B, Portfolio. Acting as the principal H&S partner to the P&B Executive Managing Director, you will work closely with discipline Managing Directors and Operational Directors to ensure that H&S risks, performance and improvement priorities are understood and integrated into business decision-making.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and overseeing the P&B H&S strategy and annual improvement plan
- Advising and constructively challenging the Executive MD, discipline MDs and ODs on H&S risk, performance, opportunities and leadership
- Providing the Executive MD with a consolidated view of portfolio H&S performance, significant risks and emerging issues
- Ensuring portfolio priorities are translated into proportionate discipline-level objectives and actions
- Leading the H&S contribution to portfolio and discipline leadership meetings
- Overseeing portfolio H&S reporting, using incident, assurance and performance data to identify trends and improvement priorities
- Setting the direction and priorities for the P&B H&S team, ensuring resources are deployed according to risk and business need
- Overseeing a risk-based assurance programme covering project safety, CDM, fatal risks and other priority areas
- Providing senior oversight of significant and high-potential incidents, including investigation quality, learning and action close-out
- Promoting visible H&S leadership and the sharing of lessons and good practice across P&B
- Representing P&B within the wider UK&I HSEQ function and relevant governance forums
- Providing senior H&S input to strategic projects, major bids and significant business change
Requirements:
- Significant experience in a senior H&S leadership or business-partnering role within a complex, project-led organisation
- Experience of advising Executive Directors, Managing Directors and Operational Directors
- Strong knowledge of the UK health and safety regulatory framework, including practical understanding of CDM and the Building Safety Act
- A recognised Level 6 H&S qualification, such as the NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
- Chartered membership of IOSH, or demonstrable progress towards Chartered status
- Experience of developing H&S strategies, improvement plans and risk-based assurance programmes
- The ability to analyse complex information and present clear recommendations to senior leaders
- Experience of leading or coordinating H&S professionals across multiple disciplines or business areas
- Strong influencing, communication and stakeholder-management skills
- A pragmatic approach that supports both effective risk management and successful project delivery
- Willingness to travel regularly throughout the UK and Ireland