Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director

Kier Group plc; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK construction and property services company is seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Director to develop and lead health, safety, and wellbeing strategies. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in driving improvement and engagement across all levels of the organization, with people-centered leadership skills and strong stakeholder management abilities. The role offers flexible working and requires occasional travel, contributing to a positive culture of health across the business. Competitive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Wide variety of benefits

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrable track record in driving improvement in safety, health and wellbeing.
• Experience in influencing and engaging senior leaders.
• Emotionally intelligent and people-centred leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy.
• Lead and develop a high-performing HSW function.
• Ensure compliance with HSW requirements.

Skills

Driving improvement in safety

Influencing senior leaders

People-centered leadership

Leading culture change programs

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Job description

Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Director

We're looking for a Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Director to join our Kier Group – Business Division Leadership team based Nationwide.

Location: Nationwide – remote working available, with occasional travel to offices required.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director, you'll be working within the Business Division Leadership Team, supporting them in developing and delivering a positive, high‑performing safety, health and wellbeing culture across the organisation.

Your day to day will include:

• Developing and implementing the divisional Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy aligned to the Group's approach
• Leading and developing a high‑performing HSW function
• Ensuring compliance with all HSW contractual, legislative and tender requirements
• Managing reporting, review and continuous improvement of incidents, performance and processes
• Leading wellbeing strategy and championing a positive culture of physical and mental health

What are we looking for?

This role of HSW Director is great for you if:

• A strong, demonstrable track record in driving improvement in safety, health and wellbeing
• Experience influencing and engaging senior leaders to drive strategy and cultural change
• Emotionally intelligent, people‑centred leadership skills with the ability to inspire high performance
• Proven experience in leading culture and behaviour‑change programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including representing the business externally
• Full UK Driving Licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier