Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick
Area Health & Safety Lead
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About The Role
Join one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects.
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is seeking an Area Health & Safety Lead to support the Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC Alliance (MEH Alliance) at Hinkley Point C. This is a key leadership role, responsible for driving exceptional health and safety performance across a designated area of works on the UK's first new nuclear power station in over two decades.
What you'll be doing
- Lead and promote a strong health and safety culture across your allocated area.
- Support the Deputy Head of HSE in delivering Alliance HSE objectives and standards.
- Manage and develop a team of HSE Advisors.
- Provide expert guidance and support to construction teams throughout planning and delivery.
- Monitor performance, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead audits, investigations, reporting, and assurance activities.
- Ensure HSE data, KPIs, lessons learned, and performance indicators are effectively managed and communicated.
- Champion the HPC Way and contribute to the wider integrated HSESS team.
Who we're looking for
Essential Qualifications
- Chartered IOSH Member or working towards Chartership
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)
Essential Experience & Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Good working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation and regulations
- Experience communicating HSE standards and expectations across diverse teams
- Experience working with regulators, including hosting and presenting during site visits
- Proven experience leading and managing HSE teams
- Experienced auditor with strong assurance and compliance knowledge
- Ability to obtain security clearance
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Desirable
- Experience in a similar HSE leadership role within construction, engineering, or the nuclear sector
- Understanding of Nuclear Site Licence Conditions
- Knowledge of Mechanical, Electrical, HVAC, Scaffolding, and Coatings activities
- Level 3 Award in Education & Training (PTLLS) or willingness to obtain
- Strong analytical and investigative skills with excellent attention to detail
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing, and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies, and communities rely on.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market-leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
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At Balfour Beatty, we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
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