Contract Duration/Type: Permanent 

Location: Clondalkin, Dublin

Overview of the role:

We are looking for a highly motivated and safety conscious individual for the HSE Officer position. Our client is providing services on black utilities, hard services, maintenance and calibrations to a leading data centre operator. 

You will ensure the highest standards of Environmental, Health and Safety practices for our client’s team on site, and will work closely with their customer to ensure compliance with the specific HSE requirements.

You will develop robust internal audits of the HSE management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001) and work with assigned direct and indirect reports. You will also facilitate local compliance with the Incident/Accident management system and evaluate and promote a positive safety culture within our client’s team that also reflects both our client’s and their customer’s safety initiatives.

Duties of the Role include: 

• Ensure the highest standards of Environmental, Health and Safety practices for the team on site.
• Support the application of our client’s minimum requirements as relevant.
• Coordinate Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) activities in the operating unit to ensure sustained and continuous improvement in HSE compliance.
• Facilitate local compliance with both our client’s and their customer’s Incident/Accident management systems; investigate and/or support operations teams with incident/accident investigations.
• Promote and facilitate a positive safety culture.
• Attend monthly safety/customer meetings as relevant.
• Collaborate with our client’s Risk & Assurance team and attend R&A meetings as relevant.
• Ensure actions are assigned, completed and closed out in the designated safety reporting system.
• Facilitate a site HSE forum via monthly meetings.
• Provide support and focus for the HSE reps.
• Support the operations teams in the sign-off and ongoing development and improvement of both our client’s and suppliers’ RAMS.
• Be proactive in identifying non-routine tasks and ensure associated risk assessments are completed in a consistent and comprehensive way.
• Support both client’s and their customer’s third party external and internal HSE audit programmes and requirements.
• Network on HSE issues within the business and across operating sites.
• Ensure any incident learnings are communicated across the business and the wider site network.
• Maintain and apply all relevant company and customer HSE policies, procedures and systems.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and laws.
• Ensure wellbeing of all company staff on site in accordance with the policies and regulations.
• Monitor and collaborate with contractor/suppliers working on site the ensure they adhere to company and/or customer procedures and relevant legislation.
• Ensure training and re-training of staff is managed in compliance with both local customer and company requirements and maintain a site-specific training matrix.
• Monitor and audit compliance with local permit issuing requirements.
• Deal with all other HSE matters arising.
• Regularly review the risk profile of the site, through incident trends and available data, sharing the outcome with operational colleagues to establish plans addressing the risks.
• Support and engage with operational teams with VMR requirements and provide profound advice on matters relating to HSE.
• Ensure that all improvement projects are implemented at site level and outstanding actions are identified and managed with operational leads.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customer and company stakeholders, including, but not limited to senior managers, external organisations, customer leadership teams, safety reps and trade unions as relevant.
• Promote good practice across the team and recommend improvements to policies and procedures.
• Actively support improvement projects.

 Required skills for this role: 

• NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent – Essential
• Experience with high pressure gas installations and electrical HV systems – Desirable 
• Auditor Training, Managing Change, Risk Management - Desirable