Health and Safety Lead

Job Description

VANRATH is pleased to partner with a dynamic and fast-growing business to appoint a Health & Safety Lead. This is a full-time, permanent role offering strong career growth aligned with the company's ongoing expansion plans. It's a fantastic opportunity for an experienced HSE professional to embed best practices and contribute directly to shaping the organisation's safety culture.

About the Role

As the Health & Safety Lead, you will play a central role in supporting operational teams across the business with hands-on safety guidance, process development, and compliance. You will ensure that safe systems of work are in place, lead investigations, and champion a safety-first culture across diverse teams and work sites. This role requires both a proactive mindset and a collaborative approach.

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as the go-to HSE advisor across the company, supporting management, site teams, subcontractors, and external partners.

  • Build strong relationships across departments to embed a culture of health, safety, and continuous improvement.

  • Develop, implement, and monitor safe systems of work, including RAMS and risk assessments.

  • Carry out regular inspections of sites, workshops, and equipment, ensuring compliance and maintaining records.

  • Lead incident and accident investigations, identifying root causes and developing corrective action plans.

  • Support departmental collaboration by understanding adjacent roles and their impact on your function.

  • Attend internal and external meetings to represent the HSE function as needed.

  • Maintain professional and legal compliance with all HSE regulations and the company's management systems.

  • Deliver engaging toolbox talks, briefings, and safety inductions to staff and site workers.

  • Uphold professional conduct when interacting with clients, stakeholders, and team members as a representative of the business.

What You'll Need to Succeed

  • NEBOSH Level 3 Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety (or equivalent).

  • At least 5 years' experience in a health & safety role, ideally within construction, engineering, or M&E environments.

  • Strong working knowledge of incident management, inspections, audits, and lifting operations.

  • Ability to apply practical safety solutions across varied working environments and teams.

  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead safety initiatives from the front.

Desirable Extras

  • Working towards or already holding Chartered Membership of IOSH.

  • NEBOSH Diploma (or currently studying towards it).

For further information on this vacancy, or any other job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Jack Groves in the strictest confidence via Vanrath.