Head of HSW Assurance
Head of HSW Assurance
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Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people's lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Listed on three major stock markets: Nasdaq (US), Euronext Amsterdam (Netherlands) and IBEX 35 (Spain), we are also member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 24,000 professionals worldwide., including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.
Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.
Why Ferrovial?
- Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
- Collaborative excellence: Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.
- Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
- Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
- Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
- Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.
Job Description:
About The Role
The Head of HSW Assurance is a key leadership position, overseeing the health and safety management system and ensuring its processes align with corporate strategies at both organizational and operational levels. This role collaborates closely with the global team of HSW professionals to ensure compliance with legal and company standards while upholding excellence in health and safety practices through targeted coaching, comprehensive audits, and systematic reviews. A strategic aspect of this position involves structuring health and safety process data for effective trending and analysis. Additionally, the Head of HSW Assurance manages a team of technical specialists dedicated to supporting the assurance function.
The Head of HSW Assurance is a key member of Ferrovial's corporate HSW team, dedicated to improving the business for the prevention of serious injuries and fatalities. The primary objective for this role is to evolve the management system and culture primarily centered on compliance to prevent fatal injuries, towards building a resilient framework with the capacity to prevent fatalities in case of error.
Key Responsibilities
- Management System: Manage, maintain, and continuously improve the company's ISO 45001 certified health and safety management system, ensuring the integrity of our multi-site certification in the construction business.
- Engagement and Harmonization: Creatively engage the business, especially project supervision and the HSW leadership team, to harmonize safety processes, tune them to critical risks, with a focus on serious and fatal injury prevention.
- Process Excellence: Quality assurance and effectiveness of HSW processes throughout the project lifecycle, from tendering, contractor qualification, and design to procurement and construction operations.
- Legal compliance: Monitor status of legal actions, citations, penalties, sanctions, judgements, etc. and provide support to ensure positive outcomes and lessons learned by jurisdiction or geography in which they arise.
- Documentation and Accessibility: Act as the custodian of all HSW documents, policies, procedures, and manuals, ensuring they are readily accessible and usable in digital formats for our global organization.
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor key HSW metrics and risk indicators, utilizing Power BI to share performance data and drive data-informed decision-making.
- Visibility and reporting: Create awareness to safety performance, including weekly reports on construction related serious injuries and high potential events, monthly and quarterly performance metrics for the construction business.
- Team Management: Manage a small, high-performing team that includes the HSW audit function.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in creating, managing, and maintaining ISO 45001 certified management systems.
- Proven experience in a senior HSW leadership role within the construction or a related high-risk industry.
- Experience or knowledge with diverse health and safety legislative frameworks, including OSHA (US), HSE Executive (UK), and "Servicio de Prevención" (Spain).
- Experience in investigating serious incidents, including fatal injuries.
- Proven ability to manage and develop a team of HSW professionals.
- Proficiency in using Power BI or similar business intelligence tools for data analysis and reporting.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, and engagement skills, with the ability to inspire a positive safety culture at all levels of a global, multicultural organization.
- Experience with or understanding of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles and their application in a complex, high-risk environment.
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