Senior Site Manager & Safety Officer
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The opportunity of site management for the construction industry gave me the chance to progress away from a vocation I had worked in for nearly two decades and completed everything. Taking my knowledge of safety and a lifetime of coming from a family involved in construction the move to site management was a logical one to give me the challenge of tackling a whole multitude of areas that would take advantage of logistical, computer, and people skills.
Senior Site Manager & Safety Officer - Environ Consultants
(2025-01)
Overall responsibility for planning and organising site activities and sequencing of works, coordinating subcontractors, suppliers and labour. Managing site logistics (access, storage, deliveries, plant movement).
Introduction of GPS tracking to compiling all steel frame parts from a laydown area and plan with excel data sheets, leading to build packs. Holding daily briefings and/or toolbox talks, resolving operational problems that arise on site ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation. Conducting risk assessments and method statement reviews while carrying out site safety inspections and managing incident reporting investigations whilst ensuring appropriate PPE and training.
Consultant - BVRLA (British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association)
(2024-01)
Working with the BVRLA to help develop a training strategy for going forward with EV vehicles.
Site Manager & Assistant to the Project Manager - Pro-Active Safety
(2024-01 - 2025-01)
Site manager on a complex waste-to-energy (WtE) Plant Construction project with responsibility for delivering the project safely, on time and in accordance with the regulatory requirements. These types of projects are particularly complex because they combine large-scale civil construction, process engineering, environmental compliance, and long-term operational performance.
Inspection Training & Safety Manager - Manheim Inspection Services
(2008-08 - 2024-01)
Initially as a Driver progressing in October 2011 to a Driver/Inspector, December 2013 to Full Time Inspector and then Team Leader of the North East and Cumbria. In 2017 the position of Regional Operations Manager for North East, Scotland and Northern Ireland, finally moving in 2018 to start the Inspection Academy for Manheim as the Inspection Training & Safety Manager. Concepting and designing all training material content and the study of driver safety and processes that involve duty of care.
Manheim duties becoming the accredited training source for the BVRLA (British Vehicle Rental & Leasing Association) designing the training material and delivering this UK wide.
Event Assistant - Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
(2008-04 - 2010-01)
Working within the Leisure & Cultural Development Section of the Council.
House Technician - Middlesbrough Town Hall
(1992-09 - 2014-01)
Installation of AV equipment, lighting and sound systems. Fire Warden duties along with safe working policies.
Technical Safety & Events Co-ordinator - Stockton SPACE
(2005-09 - 2007-08)
Taking a 2 year position overseeing the design and layout of a custom built building and site managed the construction of the new facility which included workshops, build areas, green room, catering kitchen, toilets and shower rooms for street theatre production.
Research & Development - The Miami Corporation
(1995-11 - 2004-09)
Duties with Miami were R&D, interface design for two touch technology, working from worldwide locations developing software for various GPS and data solutions with MoD applications.
Creative Designer - NPS Visual Communications
(1994-05 - 1995-11)
Moving to NPS to work with Peter Gibson the ex-Creative Director of RDW.
Creative Designer - Riley-Durnell-Worth
(1992-12 - 1993-05)
Concept designer working on high profile accounts e.g. for a variety of media sources, including TV, Radio, Local and National Press and Free Sheet.
Design Associates - Design Associates ~ 4-FRONT
(1986-07 - 1992-12)
Design Associates was an artwork and design service. In 1987 with investment in Apple Macintosh Computers, at the start of the digital revolution. In 1988 creating 4-FRONT Magazine, a monthly, high quality free publication for the youth market 50,000 copies and 280 outlets in major towns and cities, throughout the UK including London, and internationally Los Angeles and Berlin.
Event Stage Building and Touring - Various Festivals and Bands
(1990-01)
Since the early 1990's when time has permitted either part- or full-time touring with various crews at Festivals and with individual bands. Working with the likes of The Who, Madness, The Stranglers, McFly, Girls Aloud, Aerosmith and Manic Street Preachers the list is too many to mention.
MA - Design Technology - University of Teesside (2004-01 - 2005-01)
BA - HND Graphics & Visual Communications & ND in Vocational Design - CCAD, Middlesbrough (1980-01 - 1984-01)
