Jennifer Punton
Dunbar,East Lothian
Summary
Experienced Facilities Manager and HSE Professional with a proven ability to optimise productivity, efficiency and service quality across diverse operational environments. Dedicated to maintaining strong health, safety and environmental standards while ensuring full compliance with regulatory requirements. Highly dependable and results-driven, with excellent communication and organisational skills, able to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines under pressure.
Known for collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence. Seeking a long-term position within an organisation that offers career growth and job satisfaction.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Assistant HSE Engineer
Amentum
Torness, Dunbar, East Lothian
2025.07 - Current
- Provide advice and guidance on all HSE matters
- Ensure compliance with regulations for maintaining a safe work environment.
- Investigate potential hazards for proactive prevention measures.
- Complete detailed site inspections, identifying risks before they escalated into issues and logging on observation database
- Attend CR screening meetings
- Brief staff on all Toolbox Talks
- Attend monthly PEER group HSE meeting with site lead
- Promote a culture of safety throughout company operations using effective communication.
- Coordinate with engineers for ensuring best HSE practices across projects.
- Review RAMS, CPP's, Environmental impact assessments, PCI, & Waste Management Plans
- Track compliance for projects
- Undertake internal HSEQ Audits on projects
- Attend pre/post job briefs
- Collaborate with cross-functional site teams, to enhance safety performance during outage
Facilities Manager
Gallifordtry
Edinburgh
2023.03 - 2025.06
- Worked closely with suppliers to secure cost-effective services.
- Successfully delivered on tasks within specific deadlines.
- Ensured health and safety compliance through continous inspections.
- Developed preventative maintenance and lifecycle plans
- Negotiated contracts with vendors, achieved significant cost savings.
- Responded promptly to emergency situations, ensuring minimal impact on operations.
- Planned and coordinated preventative maintenance and reactive repair work to maintain cost efficiency.
- Supervised engineers to comply with policies and guidelines.
- Ensured compliance with company policies through regular audits.
- Managed internal audits, maintaining impeccable standard adherence.
Assistant Contracts Manager
Gallifordtry Facilities Management
Haddington, East Lothian
2019.05 - 2023.03
- Worked on 2 projects simultaneously including two flagship hospital facilities.
- Review and comply with policies and guidelines.
- Produced management and client reports monthly, reporting on key contract performance information.
- Devised appropriate risk management plans to set clear objectives to improve staff welfare and regulation compliance.
- Assisted staff members with hazard and incident reporting protocol as needed.
- Completed detailed inspection audits on specified timeframe to promote satisfaction and safety.
- Recruited, inducted and audited subcontractors and closely monitoring their workmanship to ensure cost-effective and safe service delivery at all times
- Responded to building emergencies and managed repairs within required timeframe.
- Planned and coordinated preventative maintenance and reactive repair work to maintain cost efficiency.
- Undertook all stages of financial management on contracts, including onboarding suppliers, raising purchase orders, and processing invoices
- Developed rapport with clients to cultivate loyalty and satisfaction.
- Managed and updated workload tracker to plan and monitor site activities and ensure all KPI deadlines were achieved at all times
- Reported on site costs and quality and quantity of project output
- Placed and managed subcontractor orders based on project needs
- Helped provide HR support functions to large engineering teams including recruitment, time and absence management
Office Manager
Interserve Construction
Dunbar, East Lothian
2017.06 - 2019.03
- Working as part of a Consortium for the Client, I worked in line with, and met the expectations of Interserve, their partner and their employer
- Organising letters and issuing all mail delivered to site
- Booking meeting rooms and organizing invites, agendas and minutes for numerous meetings.
- Updating staff holidays and timesheets every week before emailing them to head office
- Planning and booking all staff travel and accommodation arrangements for training and site visits
- Attended weekly H&S meetings as well as monthly project development team meetings with the Consortium, taking minutes and updating all relevant programs
- I typed, collected, stored, recorded and distributed necessary documents to all relevant personnel
- Updating documentation on internal storage system ‘H-Drive' our letter register and ‘Buzzsaw', the Consortium Partners equivalent
- Carrying out independent weekly fire checks around site showing I was trusted with the safety of all on site
- Processing all invoices, orders, receipts, delivery notes, waste skip tickets and fuel tickets for Interserve and their subcontractors.
Security Guard
Clean and Secure
Dunbar, East Lothian
2016.04 - 2017.06
- Controlling and authorizing all access of egress of vehicles, staff and visitors
- Completed required shift logs and reports, highlighting routine activities, suspicious circumstances and critical incidents.
- Enrolling new staff on the security system using fingerprint scanners
- Liaising with appropriate subcontractors by radio daily on site about deliveries and directing them to correct compound
- Deterred criminal activity, vandalism and general misconduct by providing highly visible security presence and patrols.
- Noting down any irregular occurrence's in the work handbook
- Prepared regular written logs and incident reports at close of each shift for management team.
- Responding to any emergency, allowing turnstiles to free run, providing roll call and directing all staff to allocated muster points on site
- Contacting companies for emergency call outs and stopping all site access, if necessary until repairs have taken place.
Education
Dunbar Grammar School
Dunbar 2006.08 - 2010.06
Skills
- Human Organisational Performance (HOP Lead)
- Risk mitigation
- Compliance management
- Subcontract management
- Record-keeping
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Schedule management
- Building Maintenance, Department and Contract management
- Service agreements
- Client relationship building
Qualifications / Certifications
- IOSH Managing Safely
- NEBOSH General Certificate
- HUET / ACIN Training
- Field Supervisor Maintenance Standards
Additional Information
- References available on request.
- 1 Month Notice Period
- NEBOSH Diploma Booked
Languages
English
Native
Timeline
Assistant HSE Engineer
Amentum
2025.07 - Current
Facilities Manager
Gallifordtry
2023.03 - 2025.06
Assistant Contracts Manager
Gallifordtry Facilities Management
2019.05 - 2023.03
Office Manager
Interserve Construction
2017.06 - 2019.03
Security Guard
Clean and Secure
2016.04 - 2017.06
Dunbar Grammar School
2006.08 - 2010.06