Location: Flexible UK Location (with regular UK-wide travel)
Business Unit: Asset Management, Environment Division
Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction and infrastructure businesses, delivering projects and services that create lasting value for our clients, communities and the environment.
Within our Environment Division, the Asset Management Business Unit provides specialist engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and asset support services across the UK. Comprising Lintott, Ham Baker Engineering, GT Fabrications, AVRS and GT Capital Maintenance, we offer a comprehensive asset lifecycle solution, from design and manufacture through to installation, maintenance, refurbishment and operational support.
Our Asset Management businesses play a critical role in helping clients maintain, improve and extend the life of essential infrastructure assets across regulated and industrial sectors.
We are seeking an exceptional Head of HS&E to join our Asset Management senior leadership team.
This is a significant strategic leadership opportunity, responsible for setting the direction for Health, Safety and Environmental performance across a diverse portfolio of specialist engineering, manufacturing, fabrication, maintenance and installation businesses.
Reporting to the HS&E Director (Environment), you will develop, implement and assure the Asset Management HS&E strategy, ensuring all businesses consistently achieve exemplary standards of health, safety and environmental performance whilst supporting sustainable business growth.
Operating across multiple businesses, locations and operational environments, you will balance governance, assurance and compliance requirements with the need for agility, operational effectiveness and commercial performance. You will be equally comfortable providing Board-level strategic leadership and hands-on support to operational teams.
Working closely with the Asset Management Managing Director, Managing Directors across the individual operating businesses, and senior leadership teams, you will help shape culture, improve performance and create a consistency of standards while recognising the unique requirements of each business.
As Head of HS&E, you will:
This role requires an experienced and influential HS&E leader who can operate effectively in complex, fast-paced and commercially focused environments.
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of HS&E across a diverse portfolio of specialist businesses that are central to Galliford Try's long-term growth ambitions.
You will have the opportunity to influence culture, governance, strategy and performance at a senior level, whilst leading a talented team and working alongside senior leaders across the Asset Management and Environment businesses.
If you are a strategic thinker, an influential leader and passionate about creating high-performing organisations through exceptional HS&E standards, we'd love to hear from you.
With an impressive order book and long-term growth strategy, Galliford Try offers the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most important infrastructure programmes while developing a rewarding and successful career.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of our people through our Be Well programme, offering support, advice and wellbeing initiatives across the business.
We invest significantly in professional and leadership development through tailored career pathways, training programmes and qualifications to help our people achieve their full potential.
Our Agile Working programme provides flexibility in how, when and where you work, where operational requirements allow.
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to support your career alongside a competitive salary.
Our purpose is to improve people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote best practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values of Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration (EPIC), delivering excellence for our clients and communities while creating lasting value for all stakeholders.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other opportunities within our business, please contact adam.wright@gallifordtry.co.uk.
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail during the recruitment process.
We encourage candidates to let us know of any reasonable adjustments that would support them throughout the application and interview process.
Don't meet every requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway.
As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to candidates with a long-term health condition or disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the advert if you believe this applies to you.
A full job description is available upon request.
Galliford Try is a leading UK contractor, and a member of the FTSE 250, passionate about providing high quality buildings and infrastructure for communities across the nation. With expertise in providing whole life solutions to both private and public clients, we have a strong track record in our chosen sectors of Building, Highways and Environment. Our network of offices across England and Scotland, provide local delivery to their regional markets, all underpinned by the strength of a nationwide FTSE business.
