Health & Safety Manager
24 days ago
Clerkenwell
A leading Principal Contractor is seeking an experienced Health & Safety Manager to oversee health, safety, and environmental performance across large-scale, technically complex data centre projects. This role will be site-based and will play a key part in ensuring compliance, driving best practice, and embedding a strong safety culture across multi-disciplinary project teams. Key Responsibilities • Take full responsibility for Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) management across assigned data centre sites, • Act on behalf of the Principal Contractor under CDM 2015, supporting the delivery team in meeting statutory duties, • Develop, implement, and continuously improve H&S policies, procedures, and site-specific safety plans, • Lead site inspections, audits, and compliance reviews across all trades and subcontractors, • Review, challenge, and approve subcontractor RAMS, permits to work, and method statements, • Lead investigations into incidents, near misses, and unsafe acts, ensuring corrective actions are implemented, • Deliver site inductions, toolbox talks, and ongoing H&S training, • Liaise directly with clients, designers, subcontractors, and enforcing authorities, • Monitor KPIs, produce H&S reports, and contribute to project and board-level reviews, • Promote behavioural safety and a proactive, positive safety culture on site Essential Requirements • Proven experience working as a Health & Safety Manager for a Principal Contractor, • Demonstrable experience delivering data centre projects (critical requirement), • In-depth knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and UK health & safety legislation, • NEBOSH General Certificate (minimum), • Experience managing H&S across complex, multi-trade construction environments, • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, • Ability to operate autonomously on large, live construction sites Desirable • NEBOSH Construction Certificate or Diploma, • IOSH membership (TechIOSH / GradIOSH / CMIOSH), • Background in major projects, critical environments, or M&E-heavy schemes, • Experience working on high-value or mission-critical developments What's on Offer • Competitive salary and benefits package, • Car allowance or travel support, • Long-term, high-profile data centre pipeline, • Career progression within a growing principal contracting business O’Neill and Brennan values diversity and promotes equality, All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation