Health & Safety Manager | High-Impact Infrastructure Projects
Location: Helsinki, Finland | Type: Full-Time, On-site Project Role
Overview: Lead Safety Culture on Europe's Critical Builds
Are you a highly motivated and experienced Health & Safety professional looking to own safety performance on a major international project?
Our client, a premier European technology delivery partner with Dublin headquarters, stands as the continent's dedicated specialist in end-to-end data centre solutions. They manage the entire project lifecycle, from design through to construction and commissioning, covering all civil, mechanical, and electrical disciplines.
Recognised as the most trusted partner in their sector, they are seeking a dedicated Health & Safety Manager to join the team delivering a significant project in Helsinki, Finland.
This is an opportunity to be the central pillar of safety on a complex, large-scale site, ensuring absolute adherence to best practice and regulatory compliance.
Your Mission: Driving Excellence in Site Safety
You will be responsible for implementing, managing, and sustaining a world-class safety framework on site. Key responsibilities include:
Strategy and Compliance
System Ownership: Oversee project adherence to the company's Safety Management System and relevant statutory Environmental, Health & Safety EHS legislation.
Documentation: Develop construction stage plans and ensure compliance with the Principal Contractor's Safety Plan.
Performance Monitoring: Conduct HS reporting, analyse metrics, and keep senior management reliably informed of departmental progress.
Risk Control: Manage and support the development of all critical safety documentation: method statements, risk assessments, safe plans of action, and H&S permits-to-work.
Site Management and Auditing
Best Practice: Champion and ensure superior safety practices are consistently maintained across the entire project group.
Proactive Intervention: Adopt a proactive stance towards site EHS requirements. Ensure safety interventions are completed and registered promptly.
Inspections: Conduct routine site audits, meticulously documenting results and rigorously tracking all corrective actions to closure.
Hazardous Substances: Oversee ongoing Control of Substances Hazardous to Health COSHH assessments.
Documentation Control: Maintain accurate records of statutory inspections, ensuring all necessary supporting documentation is readily available.
Training, Coordination, and Investigation
Subcontractor Management: Ensure all project subcontractors strictly adhere to project and corporate EHS policies and procedures.
Induction & Resources: Coordinate and manage site induction and training, and ensure adequate personal protective equipment PPE is resourced and available.
Incident Response: Timely assist with or carry out accident investigations and ensure rapid communication of findings to the project management team.
Skills & Credentials
Education: A relevant third-level degree qualification in Environmental, Health & Safety.
Experience: A minimum of 3 years' experience managing EHS on large-scale construction sites.
Sector Knowledge: Experience in data centre construction projects is highly desirable.
Expertise: Thorough, up-to-date knowledge of current EHS egislation.
Core Competencies: Strong communication and IT skills, proven ability to work on own initiative, and flexibility in working patterns when necessary.
The Rewards: Accelerate Your Career
Work with a genuine Market Leader in the Data Centre industry.
Access to Supportive Career Development.
Competitive Salary Package.
Collaborative Team Environment.
Secure Pipeline of Project Growth.
