ERM is seeking a Health & Safety Specialist for a full-time opportunity based out of our client’s location. In this critical role, you will be responsible for ensuring health and safety compliance with applicable regulations and existing company standards and contributing to an environment where employee health and safety is preserved.  You will have the responsibility, authority, and knowledge necessary to develop and implement site-specific Health & Safety plans at a complex project site.  The ideal candidate will bring a working knowledge of H&S technical capability to help our clients proactively address their health and safety risks and challenges.

This is an ideal opportunity for professionals interested in field-based work who are looking to develop their careers in health and safety consulting.

Responsibilities:

On-site health & safety consultant for a technology sector client

Delivery of Health and Safety services and Incident and near-miss management including stop-work intervention.

Confirm that Health and Safety legal compliance requirements are understood, control programs are in place and that compliance is monitored during construction activities.

Provide regular inspection routines to projects to promote safe behaviors, and good conditions and to increase safety awareness across all workers on site.

Provide feedback on overall health and safety performance to regional leadership.

Other Health and Safety related tasks as required.

Work Location: Western Tokyo.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, health and safety or relevant studies

Minimum 3 years of relevant construction safety experience

Be passionate about safety performance improvement and having working experience with the following H&S topics:

Hazard recognition

Incident management

On-site construction health and safety planning

Job hazard analysis

Proactive and fast learner, excellent communication skills and good team worker

Fluent Japanese – written and verbal

Intermediate English – written and verbal

Who We Are:

As the world’s leading sustainability consulting firm, ERM is uniquely positioned to contribute to the environment and society through the expertise and energy of our employees worldwide. Sustainability is what we do, and is at the heart of both our service offerings and how we operate our business. For our people, our vision means attracting, inspiring, developing and rewarding our people to work with the best clients and on the biggest challenges, thus creating valuable careers. We achieve our vision in a sustainable manner by maintaining and living our ERM values that include Accountability, Caring for our People, Client Focus, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Transparency. 

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