Lead Safety Manager (Data Center)
The opportunity
As a Lead Safety Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us, lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Provide strategic leadership for all health, safety and environmental activities across large-scale construction projects and programmes
- Lead and mentor project safety teams, ensuring consistent implementation of Linesight safety standards and client requirements
- Drive the development, execution and continuous improvement of project-specific HSE plans, procedures and initiatives
- Partner with project leadership teams, clients and contractors to proactively manage project risks and promote a positive safety culture
- Oversee contractor safety performance through audits, inspections, leadership safety walks and compliance reviews
- Review and challenge RAMS, permit-to-work systems, lifting plans and high-risk work activities to ensure effective controls are in place
- Monitor key safety performance indicators, identifying trends and implementing improvement actions to achieve project objectives
- Lead investigations into incidents, near misses and significant safety events, ensuring robust root cause analysis and preventative measures are implemented
- Provide expert guidance on local legislation, industry best practices and client safety requirements
- Manage stakeholder engagement at all levels, presenting safety performance, risks and mitigation strategies to senior client representatives
- Support project teams during critical construction activities and complex contractor interface management
- Champion wellbeing, behavioural safety and continuous learning initiatives across project teams
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have 10+ years of construction health and safety experience, including leadership responsibility on large-scale projects
- Hold a recognised Health & Safety qualification such as NEBOSH Diploma, Degree in Occupational Health & Safety, or equivalent
- Possess a professional certification such as CMIOSH, CSP, CRSP, WSHO or equivalent
- Have demonstrable experience leading HSE programmes across data centres, life sciences, pharmaceutical, advanced manufacturing, commercial or infrastructure projects
- Are highly experienced managing both CSA and MEP construction safety risks in complex project environments
- Have strong knowledge of regulatory compliance, risk management methodologies and industry best practices
- Can confidently influence senior stakeholders, clients, contractors and project teams to drive positive safety outcomes
- Have proven experience leading incident investigations, audits and continuous improvement initiatives
- Possess excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Are comfortable using Microsoft Office, reporting tools and safety management system
It would be even better if you:
- Have experience working within a client-side consultancy, project management or programme management environment
- Have a strong understanding of ISO 45001 and integrated management systems
- Are passionate about coaching and developing the next generation of safety professionals
Please note that this role will start on a contract engagement and will be based onsite.
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.
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At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Health and Safety
Adhering to the highest health and safety standards is a cornerstone of our organisation, and we always prioritise health and safety in our work environments and for our employees, as well as on our project sites. Seize the opportunity to join our esteemed team of highly experienced safety advisers for major construction projects, who greatly enhance and improve existing construction safety management procedures on live sites.
Life at Linesight
