Role Overview Reporting to the Managing Director, this role is integral in creating a “Safety First” approach across all areas of our business as well as maintaining the Company’s ISO standards and ensuring legal health & safety compliance. In this key role, you will take a collaborative teamwork approach to working with colleagues around the business for continuous improvement. You will be required to undertake safety inspections in our factory as well as at our UK construction sites. A NEBOSH Level 6 diploma is desirable. Experience in a manufacturing, engineering or construction environment would be advantageous although candidates who have carried out similar QHSE management roles in any industry will be considered; the priority is a positive, team-work attitude to drive health, safety, quality and environmental excellence. Main Duties and Responsibilities Adhere to, and promote, Company core values. Lead by example in this. Follow HR procedures to manage your team: train and develop, recognize and reward achievement, manage absence and under performance. Complete performance appraisals in the timescale defined. Fully understand and monitor the Company’s health & safety policies to ensure they are adhered to and are reviewed with the Managing Director on a regular basis. Manage and deliver the Company’s Business Management Systems, including monitoring Non-Conformity/Deviation Requests. Conduct inspections in office, workshops, delivery and despatch areas and construction sites to check that the Company’s policies and procedures are being properly implemented. Keep up to date on legislation, codes of practice and guidance notes and report to the Managing Director where there are developments that affect the Company or where improvements should be made. Assess and report the Company’s compliance with legal and other requirements for which you are responsible. Carry out investigations into accidents, incidents and near misses (as defined by Company procedure). Analyse accident, incident and near miss data, identify trends and report on same to the Managing Director. Support line managers in determining safe operational procedures in collaboration with their reports. Assist line managers with the creation and monitoring of risk assessments and COSHH assessments. Consider how risks can be eliminated. Monitor noise levels in the workshops. Monitor the safe disposal of hazardous substances. Carry out regular drills to test emergency evacuation and other Health & Safety and Environmental procedures. Coordinate internal audits and prepare the Company for external audits. Ensure maintenance of management procedure documents. Key Skills Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to ensure legal compliance and to generate continuous improvement. Excellent communicator – with team members around the business. Effective leadership skills to create an effective QHSE team and drive QHSE requirements throughout the business. Commercial awareness in decision making. Strong time management. Attention to detail. The above list is not exhaustive, but it covers the main duties of the QHSE Manager. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
To support our busy project management function, we have created a vacancy for an experienced QS.
Reporting to our Head of Project Management, you’ll provide real time cost data for all elements of our projects and at each stage of the project lifecycle, facilitating effective decision making and contributing to the overall success of our projects.
Role Overview This is a great opportunity for an established Structural Engineer to join our expanding Design team. You will ideally have 5 years’ post graduate experience and be a Chartered Member of the IStructE or working towards chartership. As Structural Engineer, you will be expected to assist bid management in the preparation of offers; the Drawing Office in the detailing of the building elements; site management in the safe methods of building; and the end clients with a view to meeting the provisions of our contract and encouraging them to come back to us. This is a demanding, hands-on structural engineering position. We are a well-established company and have a large export market, so the ability to use a variety of codes and design criteria is important. Main Duties and Responsibilities Complying with all relevant Company Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental policies. Conceptual design – working in partnership with the sales team. Analysis design – using linear element or finite element software. Detail design – of all connections, bolts and welds. Preparing design calculations for draughtspeople and building control. Taking a leading role in preparing the CDM risk register for each building. Assisting with the preparation of safe erection methods. Attending meetings, both internal and client facing, as required. Optimising designs to produce structures that are safe, easy to draw, manufacture, ship and erect as well as being cost effective. Assisting with the preparation of operation and maintenance manuals for the client. Key Skills MIStructE or working towards chartership. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to meet specification, budget and programme as well as resolve any challenges that arise. CAD software. In depth knowledge of structural analysis concepts. Seismic design experience. Linear element or finite element analysis experience. Surveying experience. The above list is not exhaustive but it covers the main duties of the role. There may be other duties, not mentioned here, which become part of the job. Please apply to hr@reidsteel.co.uk Return to Employment Opportunities
