AMS PSR

On behalf of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS), we are looking for a Health & Safety Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. This is a hybrid working role (three days per week onsite - West Burton, Nottingham).

Job Purpose:

The Health & Safety Manager (Construction Support) provides senior-level leadership, oversight and specialist expertise to ensure that construction, installation, commissioning and enabling works across the UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS) programme are planned and delivered safely, in compliance with CDM 2015 and all applicable health and safety legislation, standards and internal governance.

This role strengthens UKIFS’s commitment to zero harm, robust construction safety management, and excellence in mission assurance. The post holder acts as the organisation’s key subject-matter expert in construction health and safety, supporting programme teams, Principal Contractors, designers, and supply-chain partners in delivering safe construction methodologies across complex and high‑hazard fusion-related environments.

As a Health & Safety Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Provide authoritative expertise in construction safety, supporting all phases of build, installation, commissioning and enabling works.
• Champion UKIFS’s safety values and promote a mature safety culture across all project teams and supply chain partners.
• Act as advisor to the Director SQMA on construction safety risks, emerging issues, and strategic safety priorities.
• Participate in safety committees, readiness reviews, hazard workshops and senior-level construction forums.
• Provide direct technical support to projects in developing safe systems of work, risk assessments, method statements (RAMS), temporary works safety arrangements, and lifting operations planning.
• Review and challenge contractors’ Construction Phase Plans, site set‑up arrangements and high-risk activity controls.
• Undertake site inspections, behavioural safety observations, and leadership walkdowns, providing clear and constructive feedback.
• Support the evaluation of Principal Contractor competence and performance, feeding into contract management and supplier assurance processes.
• Facilitate proactive hazard identification and risk reduction through design and planning phases.

Essential:

• Chartered or Graduate membership of IOSH (CMIOSH or GradIOSH working toward chartership).
• Significant experience in construction health and safety roles on major infrastructure, energy, industrial or high‑hazard projects.
• Strong working knowledge of CDM 2015, construction site safety management, temporary works, lifting operations and contractor management.
• Demonstrated ability to influence at senior levels and constructively challenge contractors and internal stakeholders.
• Experience conducting inspections, audits, investigations and producing high-quality safety reporting.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex issues for non‑specialists.
• Strong understanding of risk management and hazard identification in construction environments.
• Strong personal commitment to safety leadership and integrity with a collaborative and professional approach, with the ability to challenge and influence constructively.

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent Level 6 health and safety qualification.
• Experience working in nuclear, fusion, defence, aerospace or similar safety‑critical sectors.
• Knowledge of quality management and mission assurance practices.
• Training or certification in incident investigation methodologies (e.g., TapRooT, ICAM).
• Experience with behaviour-based safety programmes.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".