Health & Safety Officer

Priority Construction are seeking a Health & Safety Officer to work nationwide.

We know that our greatest asset is our people; we recruit people with the talent, passion, technical & people skills to help meet us meet our customers' needs. We offer exciting learning opportunities, competitive salary and a friendly, inclusive company culture.

The successful Health & Safety Officer will have:

• Relevant 3rd Level EHS qualification or equivalent.
• 2-3 years' experience in a similar role
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office
• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Can communicate and work well in a team environment.
• Experience working in the construction sector

Responsibilities:

• Carrying out site safety inspections.
• Carry out Risk Assessments & completing Method Statements as required.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant health, safety and environmental legislation.
• Compiling registers of site safety inductions and training records for all employees and subcontractors.
• Liaising with Site Managers to ensure Health and Safety documentation is up to date on site.
• Maintaining the accident and dangerous occurrence register and tracking remedial actions.
• Accident and dangerous occurrence investigations.
• Ensuring compliance with accredited ISO standards.
• Completing pre-qual questionnaires and tenders.
• Assisting with compiling site specific health & safety documents and site safety folders & files.
• Developing Risk Assessment Method Statement (RAMS), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), Safety Alerts and other required health & safety documents.
• Attending required meetings with clients as well as internal meetings.
• Attending training courses as required e.g. Train the Trainer and in turn developing and delivering internal training and toolbox talks.
• Dealing with general health & safety issues as they arise.

Benefits:

• Exciting Projects: Engage with challenging and impactful projects that are shaping the future.
• Growth Opportunities: We are a CPD accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and committed to learning and development. We provide growth and career progression opportunities such as in-house and external mentoring and financial support for training courses in role-related fields.
• Inclusive Culture: We aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We dedicate time throughout the working year to fostering team-building and co-operation, for example with company days out.
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive pension scheme with company contributions, life assurance (death in service cover), employee assistance programme, company equipment (role-dependent) and more!

Please only apply to this role if you are both currently based in and legally eligible to work in Ireland. Unfortunately we are not in a position to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Priority Construction is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates from all sections of the community. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the recruitment process, please let us know.