Global Health & Safety Controls Lead

turnertownsend· Real estate
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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.


Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.


Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.


We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
 

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Global Health & Safety Controls Lead, as part of the Global H&S Function, to lead the development and implementation of HSE management systems as part of the BMS in accordance with regulatory requirements, international standards, and T&T strategic needs.  You will set H&S policy, standards, procedures, processes and systems to establish and maintain a safe and secure workplace for all employees, contractors and visitors.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with senior regional leadership to integrate procedures and standards into regional operations
  • Participate in sales and solutioning through provision of H&S controls to support RFI/RFP, commercial contracts and other business development activities to win, keep and grow the business
  • Provide leadership, advice and guidance to managers on health and safety controls, and in the process, provide assurance that T&T is effectively delivering operations in accordance with key standards through the development and maintenance of appropriate controls
  • Lead small project teams of internal stakeholders within the business in order to develop and implement the H&S procedures and processes within the T&T BMS, to meet statutory and broader external requirements and deliver the Safer Together Strategy
  • Establish a controls framework that includes global standards, procedures and management systems that continually improves the health and safety arrangements within our operations and address key business risks
  • Mitigate health and safety risks globally across all operations by developing, communicating and implementing effective global controls across all operations, promoting safe working practices, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation that prevents incidents
  • Ensure Supply chains are assessed so that they possess the skills, knowledge, experience, organisational capability and willingness to contribute to the health and safety aims and aspirations of the Safer Together Strategy
  • Develop clear procedures for emergency response, communication, alternative work arrangements and rapid recovery of critical operations and services

Qualifications

Qualifications & Requirements

  • Certification from an Occupational Safety & Health accreditation body (ex. NEBOSH, BCSP)
  • Strong experience in senior health and safety management position, preferably within construction, heavy industrial, infrastructure, refining environments and/or manufacturing
  • Working knowledge of regional H&S operating standards
  • Clear understanding and articulation of a H&S Management System and experience of contributing key procedures that form part of this system
  • Demonstrated experience of developing H&S procedures, processes. competence and the various elements of a management system
  • Knowledge of Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR)
  • Knowledge of OSHA standards
  • Knowledge of designing and managing H&S management systems aligned to the requirements of ISO 45001
  • Experience of leading EHSMS or relevant management systems within a large organisation; including leading on change management to embed practices, policy development experience, supply chain exposure and HSMS performance measurements

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. 

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.  

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ 

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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