Health & Safety Consultant / PSDP

AtkinsRéalis one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

Due to our continued growth and exciting project pipeline, we are looking for a Health and Safety Consultant to add to our Health & Safety Consulting team. AtkinsRéalis is renowned for an array of significant projects across Buildings, Water, Aviation, Energy, Transportation and Rail markets. The Health and Safety Consulting team based in Ireland currently employs full-time specialist consultants who deliver high quality safety advisory services to our in house multi-disciplinary teams and clients particularly in roles fulfilling the duties of PSDP.

Key Responsibilities (Under guidance of Senior H+S Consultant):

• Fulfilling the duties of the PSDP as outlined in the Safety Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013.
• Review of designs and designer risk assessments with regard compliance with H+S legislation.
• Attendance at design coordination meetings, site & stakeholder meetings.
• Coordination of residual hazards and risks.
• Provision of competent advice to clients and designers for compliance with legislation and best practice.
• Provision of safety support to internal and external teams for projects of varying scale and complexity.
• Management of contractor safety and review of contractor safety documentation.
• Management of dedicated projects including finance requirements of dedicated project.
• General health and safety consultancy services to clients.
• Health and safety support as part of project bids.
• Provide technical support to all office projects in the areas of design safety including coordination of design safety.
• Developing existing and new clients as part of our ‘win work’ strategy.
• Applying the principles of quality assurance and environmental management in compliance with the organisation's policies.
• Assisting the QSSE team with continuous improvement of our safety culture and assisting with key safety programmes.

Skills and experience:

• Sound knowledge of safety in design and construction safety.
• Experience in developing and improving company safety policies, culture and systems.
• Competent report writing with good time management skills and the ability to prioritise work and manage tasks concurrently across several projects.
• Flexible to travel to site and projects within Ireland.

Your qualifications:

• Relevant Health and Safety Degree/Diploma qualifying for membership of IOSH or Engineering Degree recognised by Engineers Ireland with post qualification Safety specific training.
• Certificate of attendance at Engineers Ireland/ACEI PSDP CPD training.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.