Health and Safety Manager
Health & Safety Manager – The Great Grid Partnership
Location: Birmingham (with occasional travel)
Rethinking Safety through Inclusion + Wellbeing
At Laing O'Rourke, we care about the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone on our projects. Our Inclusion + Wellbeing approach ensures both physical and mental safety are part of everyday working life.
We're looking for a Health & Safety Manager to join The Great Grid Partnership, supporting our Infrastructure business unit to deliver a safe, inclusive, and positive working environment across our network upgrade programme.
Your role
- Lead and support project teams to meet health, safety, and wellbeing standards.
- Promote Inclusion + Wellbeing, helping teams connect with their workforce and embed positive safety behaviours.
- Carry out audits, checks, and investigations to ensure safety processes are effective and risks are managed.
- Coach, guide, and mentor staff to develop confidence in safety leadership and inclusive practices.
- Provide clear, practical advice to help teams work safely across diverse and complex infrastructure environments.
What we're looking for
- Level 5 health & safety qualification (or equivalent).
- Experience on civils, infrastructure, or energy projects.
- Strong understanding of occupational health, wellbeing, and safety risk management.
- Confident in coaching, training, auditing, and investigating.
- Member of a relevant professional body (IOSH, IIRSM, etc.).
We also take care of our people! Our competitive package includes:
- Base salary + car/travel allowance
- Access to PMI
- Enhanced pension and parental leave schemes
- Life, dental, and critical illness insurance
- Income protection
- 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays!)
- Professional development opportunities
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
We know a CV can only tell part of the story – we'd love to hear more about you and what you bring. Please email your interest to Gbristow@laingorourke.com
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