Health and Safety Technical Lead

We are Uisce Éireann. Every day, we are responsible for the delivery of secure, safe, and sustainable water services for the people of Ireland. As Ireland’s national regulated water utility, our vision is a sustainable Ireland where water is respected and protected, for the planet and all the lives it supports.

Our purpose at Uisce Éireann is to rise to the challenge of delivering transformative water services that enable communities to thrive. That means we are proud to take on the responsibility of protecting our water supply and passing on a safe and secure water system to a rapidly growing population and empowering Ireland’s social and economic growth.

We are passionate about empowering our people, enabling them to make a positive impact on communities across Ireland. We are guided by a shared vision and purpose, grounded in values that define who we are and shape how we work, where we deliver for customers and communities, we work better together, we do the right thing, we aim high, and we keep each other safe. Our behaviours define how we interact, communicate, and succeed together. These values and behaviours apply to each one of us, across every role, location, and level.

Our goal is to attract and develop skilled and talented people from diverse backgrounds, who bring a dynamic range of expertise and insights to our work. With a strong, values-driven workforce, we ensure Uisce Éireann can continue advancing Ireland’s water services and meeting the needs of the communities we serve for generations to come.

The Role:

The Health and Safety area is responsible for ensuring & supporting compliance with company, national & European level health and safety, standards for Uisce Éireann. The team provides governance and specialist advice across business areas and manages the maintenance and assurance of the safety management system to ensure appropriate H&S compliance with regulatory requirements.

The Health and Safety Team support other areas of the business to deliver on their health and safety responsibilities. They support the implementation of the safety management system and roll out tools including processes and procedures to support health and safety compliance. They support the development of a safety culture appropriate to our organisational values which facilitates us to deliver on our Work Safe Home Safe vision and beliefs. The team also provide governance and specialist health and safety advice across assigned business areas and are the visible presence of safety in the regions. The team work with the business to monitor the implementation of safety management system and investigate and respond appropriately to internal health and safety trends and developments and external requirements such as legislative changes and regulatory requirements and expectations.

Reporting to the Health and Safety Senior Manager (Construction Management), the Health and Safety Technical Lead is responsible for supporting the rolling up of the H&S strategy and supporting its delivery nationally. They will be responsible for developing action plans and delivery of company wide health and safety initiatives, projects and programmes to deal with continuous improvement of our Safety Management System, H&S non-compliances raised across other teams, coordinating with the relevant Regional Health & Safety Managers and advisors, as appropriate.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Support the rolling out of the H&S strategy and our Safety Management System nationally.  
•    Deliver company-wide health and safety initiatives, projects and programs as required for the continuous improvement of our Safety Management System.  
•    Deliver safety programmes, initiatives, and continuous improvement projects to ensure ongoing risk reduction for personnel and assets. 
•    Develop action plans to deal with Health & Safety non-compliances raised across other teams.
•    Gather, co-ordinate, analyse and trend key H&S performance reports for the Health & Safety team and other key stakeholders.
•    Support in the overall co-ordination and governance of the Work Safe Home Safe framework and associated safety action plans across Uisce Éireann.
•    Support the implementation of the safety coach forum and process across Uisce Éireann
•    Responsible for providing specialist health and safety advice across the business areas to ensure strategy and organisational compliance are embedded in H&S Policies & Procedures.
•    Identify the appropriate Occupational Health and Safety requirements for functional areas, and work with the business to scope the organisational needs for H&S at a role/team/functional level.
•    Liaise and collaborate with key stakeholders to understand the needs and key activities of the business to inform the H&S needs of the relevant teams/roles. Also responsible for understanding how future needs will impact on H&S requirements.
•    Responsible for coordinating the health and safety needs of employees including rolling out of induction, policies, accident recording, reporting and investigation.
•    Encourage and support a culture of continuous improvement by looking at H&S needs to ensure relevance for both organisational and legislative requirements.
•    Work with the business to track and audit H&S compliance with our Safety Management System, safety legislation, company standards and best practice.
•    Liaise and collaborate with the business team to ensure H&S training needs are met and compliance is achieved across the various business functions and field based teams.
•    Improve Uisce Éireann’s culture and quality across H&S by supporting H&S programmes/projects working with the business to ensure that all H&S mandatory requirements are identified and complied with accordingly. i.e. training, operational controls etc.  
•    Responsible for having knowledge and keeping up to date with H&S best practices and legislative requirements to understand relevant documentation, guidelines and processes for use by teams in order to ensure consistency in H&S across Uisce Éireann.
•    Responsible for leading, managing, motivating, coaching and developing the Health & Safety Advisors and Co-ordinators to maximise their performance.  Responsible for setting objectives, reviewing and monitoring the performance and development of all team members using key performance measures
•    Responsible for carrying out any other duties deemed necessary and/or required, which the Health and Safety Management team may reasonably request.
•    Monitor and report KPIs for processes over which they have ownership.
•    Ensure that statutory reporting of accidents is undertaken in accordance with current legislation.

General Duties and Responsibilities

•    Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across the UÉ business. 
•    Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across UÉ and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards. 
•    Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
•    Provide visible leadership for your team, coaching and developing them to achieve their full potential and deliver business objectives, promoting collaboration and highlighting the behaviours that are expected from everyone in the team.
•    Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with Uisce Éireann’s Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of UÉ business information and delivery of critical services, in accordance with the NIS Directive and any other relevant cybersecurity regulation.
•    Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

•    Relevant third level qualification and or accreditation is desirable and or relevant experience
•    A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable
•    Demonstrated people management experience, with strong people, change management and conflict resolution skills
•    Experience providing coaching in the development of the technical skills and abilities in others
•    Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional standards and with proven ability to deliver results
•    Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions
•    Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements
•    Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job

The closing date for receipt of applications for this vacancy is 04/06/2026.
Please note that applications submitted after this closing date will not be accepted.

*Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note the Market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further.

Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.