Balfour Beatty plc
Head of Health Safety and Wellbeing
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty are looking for a Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing to join our Highways team.
This is a UK wide, mobile role supporting our portfolio of UK Highways projects, with flexibility on base location.
As Head of HSW, you will champion our Zero Harm culture, working closely with senior leaders to embed best practice, influence positive behaviours and drive continuous improvement. You will support the development and implementation of HSW strategies and initiatives, ensuring compliance, enhancing wellbeing outcomes and helping create an environment where everyone can work safely and thrive. This aligns closely with Balfour Beatty's commitment to creating a strong Zero Harm culture and supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of all employees.
What you'll be doing
- Work with the HSW Director to develop and ensure the delivery of the Business Unit/Project Zero Harm Strategy. Deputise for the HSW Director when required.
- Manage the recruitment and development of HSW professionals within their chain of command, including coaching and mentoring as required.
- Develop professional relationships with regulators, customers, JV partners and the supply chain.
- Undertake health and safety compliance evaluations, tours and audits as required and ensure sufficient assurance of project activities.
- In conjunction with Executive General Managers, Managing Directors and Directors, carry out project and business sector HSW performance reviews and reporting using lagging and leading indicators.
- Review and investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards to identify and share lessons learned across the business, ensuring actions are progressed through the serious incident review process.
- Work with the wider BB HSW team to promote Zero Harm and continuous improvement of performance.
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The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Corporate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards).
- NEBOSH Diploma or NCRQ qualification.
- Must have detailed, technical knowledge and experience Health and safety legislation, regulations and guidance.
- Construction industry experience (or experience in an equivalent sector) and in particular CDM (where work within a specific construction sector experience is advantageous then specify).
- Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams and of working at a senior level.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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