QHSE Manager job available now | Kimpton Bromborough

Position: QHSE Manager
Department: Group-wide
Assignment: Permanent
Line Manager: Managing Director
Location: Kimpton Office (plus site or supplier/ subcontractor premises visits)

Requirements:

H&S:

Minimum 7 years construction Sub-Contractor experience, with experience of setting up and managing sites as Principal Contractor (CDM2015).
Qualified with NEBOSH Construction Diploma or equal (must be Construction specific).
Excellent practical construction knowledge in similar field, capable of devising solutions to overcome problems and willing to take on tasks proactively themselves where necessary to solve problems and progress the task in a timely manner.

(Note: this is NOT a hands-off advisor/auditor/oversight position, it is a ‘producing’ role to support the team).

Q&E:

Previous experience in leading and managing integrated ISO Management Systems is essential
Past experience as Quality Co-ordinator etc would be beneficial in this role.
Must be familiar with ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 in particular.

Experience and expertise is necessary to provide foresight and leadership, but it also requires a highly organised individual. Their approach should be supportive and pragmatic, and seeking to develop the already positive culture of the existing team to deliver at a high level for stakeholders.

This is a senior role that requires a capable team player who can confidently and deftly engage at all levels internally and externally. A team player who will go the extra mile, being flexible to the needs of the business, and genuinely wants to be a key part of the success of the company as whole.

Responsibilities:

To ensure company compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
To help develop and review policies, and procedures, and to ensure company compliance with them.
To lead, audit and manage the maintenance of the company ISO Management systems and ensure effective implementation is maintained. Currently these extend to Quality, Health and Safety, and Environmental Management Systems but may be added to in future.
To lead QHSE Management system reviews and champion continuous improvement, acting as the company Quality Co-ordinator and ensuring NCRs are closed out.
To carry out auditing of ISO management systems to planned frequencies, taking appropriate actions to correct deficiencies and maintain compliance with established standards.
To carry out frequent health and safety auditing of live construction sites where we are working, producing audit reports, and ensuring actions are closed out in a timely and proper manner.
To manage personnel training records and organise QHSE training requirements as required.
To proactively support the team in planning stages of tasks/projects, assisting in producing documentation where necessary. From time to time this may include producing RAMS, Construction Phase Plans, Induction and toolbox talk content etc to assist the team as required.
To ensure all QHSE systems and documentation are kept up to date and relevant. Complete annual review of these documents.
Take ownership of maintaining all Company accreditations, and the task of preparing for and presenting the company properly to various third party auditors for these as required. Ensure all necessary evidence is in place and to ensure close out of any shortcomings that may be identified at audit.
To complete customer prequalification questionnaires and support bids in QHSE matters.
To manage new sub-contractor/supplier approval process and their annual reviews.
To carry out accident and incident investigations and maintain company records and statistics of the same.
To ensure the company position on QHSE matters is always defendable if called upon.
To maintain knowledge of current regulations and codes of practice etc, disseminate updates to the team.
To report on QHSE matters to the board (monthly), and produce safety bulletins where required.
Anything else that may from time to time reasonably be required when working as part of a small team.

Authority:

The role reports directly to the Managing Director.
The role has the authority to stop works without notice wherever it is appropriate to do so in order to ensure health and safety of persons and/or property.

About Us:

As experts in heat pumps and decarbonisation, Kimpton are on the front-line in the race to net-zero. We’ve been delivering M&E infrastructure, Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning services and Commercial Office fit outs across the Liverpool City Region since 1963.

Our clients include Merseyside’s largest employers across every sector including Unilever, Walkers Crisps, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Radisson and Hilton Hotels, Kraft Heinz, Daresbury Laboratories, Liverpool Hope University. We also look after the entire M&S Bank Arena campus – the hosts of Eurovision 2023.

We deliver the Hard FM services across the entire ACC Liverpool campus which includes Exhibition Centre Liverpool and The M&S Bank Arena.

We installed the water and gas pipe network at Liverpool One, a 1.65million sq ft open-air complex of 170 stores, bars and restaurants, cinema and hotel – one of Europe’s leading retail and leisure destinations.

We’re carrying out a £9m upgrade and refurbishment of the HVAC systems and offices throughout The Capital Building on the Strand, the largest Grade A office space in Liverpool, housing The Home Office and Crown Commercial Services.

We’re delivering large-scale residential schemes all over the UK and have delivered more student accommodation in Liverpool than any other M&E contractor. We maintain some of the University of Liverpool’s largest purpose-built accommodation buildings.

It’s because we have always been innovators in HVAC, and this thinking continues to the present day. For many, Heat Pump technology is new, but here at Kimpton, we installed our first heat pumps back in the 1970’s for Walkers Crisps and Golden Wonder. They were used to keep stocks of potatoes fresh and dry and were an innovative technology that would go on to save many £000’s in fuel costs and even more in carbon saving.

We have continued to be at the forefront of heat pump system design and have gained many years of expertise in their design and installation since those early days.

This culture of innovation has led to the delivery of two other UK firsts in renewable technology – we designed and installed the UK’s first tidal water source heat pumps in open sea at Plas Newydd, Anglesey for the National Trust and installed one of the UK’s first Transpired Solar Collectors with TATA steel at the SBEC Building on Deeside.