EHS – Health, Safety, Security & Environment Manager

Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.

Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.

Role Purpose

Lead and drive Environmental, Health, Safety and Security (EHS) management across PACE, ensuring robust governance, effective risk management and compliance with relevant requirements while fostering a proactive culture of safety, security and environmental responsibility.

Opportunity Overview

Establish and implement effective EHS and security management arrangements that embed best practice, strengthen safety leadership and promote a positive, proactive culture across PACE. Ensure appropriate management systems, assurance processes and compliance controls are in place to support safe, secure and environmentally responsible project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

EHS & Security Leadership: Lead the development and implementation of EHS and security arrangements across PACE, ensuring consistent standards, clear accountability and effective risk management.

Management Systems & Controls: Establish and maintain robust management processes, procedures and controls to support compliance, manage operational risks and drive continual improvement.

Safety Leadership & Culture: Promote visible safety leadership and a positive safety culture, encouraging proactive risk identification, workforce engagement and shared responsibility for health, safety and security.

Assurance & Reporting: Provide effective assurance, performance monitoring and reporting, ensuring risks, compliance issues and improvement opportunities are identified, communicated and appropriately managed.

Incident Management & Learning: Oversee incident reporting, investigation and lessons learned, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and insights are used to prevent recurrence and improve performance.

Security & Environmental Compliance: Coordinate security and environmental management activities, ensuring relevant obligations, standards and controls are understood, implemented and maintained.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong working relationships with client representatives, delivery partners and internal stakeholders to align expectations, address concerns and maintain consistent EHS and security standards.

Delivery Readiness: Support mobilisation and operational readiness by ensuring EHS and security plans, resources, procedures and assurance arrangements are established and effective before delivery activities commence.

Education & Qualifications: A relevant STEM degree (minimum 2:1) or equivalent qualifications and demonstrable professional experience.

Professional Accreditation: Chartered membership of a relevant professional body, or equivalent experience demonstrating a high level of professional competence in EHS management.

Operational Experience: Typically 10 years’ operational experience, with a strong understanding of health, safety, security and environmental management within complex delivery or industrial environments.

EHS Leadership: Proven experience leading health and safety teams, promoting effective safety leadership, developing team capability and embedding a proactive culture of risk management and continuous improvement.

Legislation & Standards: Strong knowledge of relevant EHS legislation, regulatory requirements, industry standards and management systems, with the ability to translate these into effective policies, procedures and operational controls.

Assurance & Compliance: Demonstrable experience in assurance, auditing, performance monitoring and compliance management, with the ability to identify risks, address gaps and drive effective corrective actions.

Stakeholder Management: Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, collaborate with clients and delivery partners, and promote consistent EHS standards across multidisciplinary teams.

Whilst we encourage applications from all nationalities, Assystem within the UK are subject to security and export control restrictions due to the nature of work to be undertaken.

These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

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