As a Health & Safety Manager, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting infrastructure project in Dublin, based at an airport. Join our dynamic team and make a difference!
The Health & Safety Manager will be responsible for championing health and safety on the project, providing a high standard of advice, guidance and support to the design and construction teams to ensure that the project complies with its legal health and safety duties.
The role holder will liaise with the relevant project stakeholders and ensure that high standards of health and safety are embedded and maintained in work processes and activities across the project.
About Us: At Sacyr UK and Ireland, we’re passionate about creating a better world through our projects. As a Health & Safety Manager, you’ll play a crucial role in our team. Our workplace is inclusive, diverse, and designed for everyone to thrive. We don’t just say it – we live it, we’re proud to have been named a Sunday Times Top 100 Employer in both 2024 and 2025, and to be accredited as a Living Wage and Disability Confident employer.
About you: If your values align with ours, and you are passionate about being part of our team, read on! Our team is professional, great communicators, adaptable, full of integrity and generally a fabulous bunch. If this sounds like you, and you can demonstrate the required skills and experience, we want to hear from you.
Our benefits:
- Inclusive work environment, Sunday Times Top 100 Employer 2024 and 2025
- 34 days holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing Support
- Ongoing professional development opportunities
- Professional membership support
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Language lessons
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Wellness Your Way programme
- Annual Health Checks
- Sacyr Sports Club, and much more.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Provide professional support to the Project Director and the project board of directors with the development, communication and implementation of project health, safety and wellbeing strategies and objectives and formulating the plans and resources required to achieve them.
- Inform and consult with project team members on the implementation of both the company’s and project-specific health and safety policies and procedures to ensure that design and construction activities are managed safely and with the least impact on the airport’s functions and stakeholders.
- Provide professional support with the development of safe systems of work, ensuring that effective risk reduction is considered during the development of temporary and permanent works designs and construction activities.
- Provide professional support to comply with the Project Supervisor for the Design Process and Project Supervisor for the Construction Stage duties and responsibilities. Provide input into the development of the project’s preliminary Safety and Health Plan and develop the Safety and Health Plan for the construction stage.
- Promote high levels of health, safety and wellbeing engagement across the project and promote learning by implementing effective health and safety training and competency standards. Implement effective workforce consultation forums and systems and provide timely feedback on issues raised.
- Support the design and construction teams with research into innovative and industry leading technologies and best practice that eliminate or reduce risk.
- Provide effective leadership to the project’s Health & Safety Team and promote personal and professional development of team members.
- Prepare health and safety reports on project health and safety performance and provide accurate data for inclusion in company health and safety reports.
- Develop compliance inspection and auditing systems and programmes and use them to provide accurate and real-time reports on project performance. Cooperate with internal and external auditors.
- Assist with the development of emergency plans and strategies and ensure that there are sufficient numbers of competent appointed persons to manage emergency situations.
- Lead by example, demonstrating that health and safety is a primary personal value and be uncompromising with the expectations of the standards of others.
Essential criteria:
- Legal right to work in the Republic of Ireland
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent qualification) in Occupational Health & Safety, or
- Membership of IoSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)
- Experience of dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work under pressure, to manage conflicting demands and to prioritize personal workload to ensure timely delivery of project requirements.
- An understanding of the commercial and procurement processes of a construction project and how actions and decisions can affect profitability.
- Familiar with the requirements of the ISO 45001 standard
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness to learn, to be creative and to work on own initiative.
- Dependable and possess a positive attitude to work.
- Leadership skills and ability to be part of a team and to work independently if required.
- Committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- Ability to use IT hardware and software, in particular the Microsoft suite of programmes.
- Full EU or Republic of Ireland driving licence.
- Valid SOLAS Safepass card (or equivalent).
- Extensive experience of the following:
- Risk assessment and management
- Method Statement review
- Site inspections and Health & Safety investigations
- Company preparation for audits
Desirable criteria:
- Experience of working in an airside environment
- An understanding of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001standards.
- Knowledge or familiarity with Dublin Airport Authority DAA safety rules and regulations
- Being fully aware of and actively complying with Sacyr’s policies and procedures relevant to your own responsibilities and to corporate policies and procedures including equality, sustainability and the environment, health and safety and data protection.
In return, you will be working on a high profile 'once in a lifetime' project where you will be supported by a collaborative team in a learning environment. We offer local and global career opportunities and whilst this project is based in Dublin our teams are truly global!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to making reasonable adjustments to enable all applicants to participate in the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any adjustments as part of the application process.
Ready to be part of our transformative journey? Apply now and contribute to building a better future!
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