Health and Safety (EHS) Lead

<h3>The Role</h3><p>As <strong>Environmental Health &amp; Safety Lead</strong>, you will be responsible for leading the EHS programme on an assigned project in Dresden.</p><p>This is a site-facing role where you will work closely with the Project Manager, site teams, subcontractors, client representatives and the Regional EHS Manager to ensure strong safety performance, legal compliance, effective risk management and continuous improvement across the project.</p><p>You will act as both a compliance lead and a practical safety coach, supporting the project team in maintaining safe systems of work, meeting EHS requirements, and driving a proactive safety culture on site.</p><p>This role would suit an experienced EHS professional who is confident working in a fast-paced construction environment and who can provide visible, practical and credible safety leadership.</p><p></p><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><p>As Environmental Health &amp; Safety Lead, you will:</p><ul><li> Lead the implementation of Designer Group’s EHS management systems on site. </li><li> Support compliance with relevant health, safety and environmental legislation, client requirements and internal standards. </li><li> Promote a strong, proactive safety culture across the project. </li><li> Support PSCS requirements, where applicable. </li><li> Develop, manage and maintain project-specific health and safety plans, safety files and EHS documentation. </li><li> Lead and attend project EHS coordination meetings. </li><li> Carry out regular site inspections, audits and compliance reviews. </li><li> Review and support the approval of RAMS, SOPs, project execution plans and dynamic risk assessments. </li><li> Monitor training compliance, including Safe Pass, CSCS and other project or country-specific requirements. </li><li> Coordinate and monitor safety arrangements across site personnel, subcontractors and project stakeholders. </li><li> Support incident investigations, after-action reviews and corrective action tracking. </li><li> Ensure audit and inspection findings are logged, assigned and closed out through the relevant digital platform. </li><li> Prepare EHS reports and support KPI reporting. </li><li> Work closely with project teams, management, subcontractors and client representatives. </li><li> Support health, wellbeing and wider EHS initiatives across the project. </li><li> Represent Designer Group professionally during audits, inspections and client engagements. </li><li> Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support practical safety solutions on site. </li><li> Ensure project EHS training needs are identified and supported in line with project requirements. </li><li> Collaborate with the wider EHS function to maintain consistent standards across Designer Group projects.</li></ul><p></p><p></p>