O’Neill & Brennan are currently recruiting for a Senior EHS Officer on behalf of our client, a leading construction company with various ongoing projects across Ireland.

The successful candidate must have a minimum of 5 years construction experience & relevant Health & Safety Qualification. Experience working on steel projects would be beneficial. The successful Senior EHS Officer will join their team on a project based in Dublin area.

As a HSE Officer your responsibilities include:

• Managing Health and Safety daily
• Ensure that all Health and Safety safe operating procedures, rules and regulations are adhered to and reviewed, updated and communicated to all employees.
• Attend meetings and site audits
• Ensure the completion and regular review of risk assessments for all work equipment and activities taking place.
• Ensure that daily/weekly safety inspections are carried out.  
• Conduct risk assessments, review and update existing risk assessments.
• Deliver inductions and other trainings if required.
• Liaise with the company safety team to continuously improve the company safety system.
• Support any investigations into near misses, accidents, identify root causes and implement changes to prevent reoccurrences.
• Staff supervision
• Ensure all GA certs and statutory documents are up to date.
• Toolbox talks- as frequently as needed.
• Updating of H & S documents.

As a HSE Officer the requirements are:

• Occupational Health and Safety Degree or similar.
• A thorough understanding of current Health & Safety legislation
• Experience in the manufacturing/Construction industry
• Previous experience with Structural Steel would be a distinct advantage
• Experience of carrying out audits
• Manual Handling/ Abrasive Wheel train the trainer
• Previous ‘Lean’ experience
• Strong communicator for reporting and IT/ MS Office skills
• 5+ years Senior Health & Safety experience within the construction industry preferably with a main contractor
• Organised individual with a strong attention to detail and work under pressure to meet deadlines.

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV to ireprotech@oandb.ie or call Clodagh on 087 797 8585 for a confidential conversation.