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 (HSW) to join our Rail team and lead the Health Safety and Wellbeing function for our Rail Systems portfolio.
Requirements
The Head of HSW will drive HSW performance, ensuring efficient and effective service and support levels to meet and where possible exceed operational requirements. They will support the HS&W Director in achieving Zero Harm. They will directly partner with the Rail Systems Operations Director to:
- Ensure projects are compliant with the legislation, health and safety requirements of the UK Business Management System (BMS) and Client health and safety and wellbeing requirements.
- Manage and work with the Rail Systems delivery teams to provide technical advice, guidance and support on health safety and wellbeing matters.
- Oversee contractual and regulatory requirements, regularly inspecting worksites and contract deliverables to ensure compliance and advise their respective HS&W teams on matters.
- Support work winning business teams with health safety and wellbeing responses for new business.
What you'll be doing
- Provide advice, support and direction to all project HS&W teams to enable them to support their project teams to deliver Zero Harm, in a coherent and coordinated manner.
- Ensure assurance plans are in place and implemented.
- Undertake Health Safety and Wellbeing compliance evaluations, tours and audits as required and to ensure sufficient assurance of project activities.
- In conjunction with Executive General Managers / Managing Directors / Directors, carry out project and business sector HSW performance reviews and reporting using lagging and leading indicators.
- Work with the HSW Director, to develop and ensure the delivery of the BB Rail HSW Strategy.
- Review and investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards to identify and effectively share lessons learned across Rail and the wider team.
- Ensure actions and recommendations are tracked and the SIER process is applied.
- Ensure HSW, Customer and Balfour Beatty accident reporting requirements are fulfilled.
- Monitor, collate and interpret health safety and wellbeing performance data including close out of inspection and accident investigation reports, and provide management reports on a routine basis.
- Deputise for the HSW Director where required.
- Work with the wider BB HSW team to promote Zero Harm and continuous improvement of performance through special projects, local initiatives and HSW improvement plans.
- Develop professional relationships with customers and specifically their HSW professionals.
- Implementation of the HSW strategy for the business.
- Lead and manage the overall capability, development, deployment and performance of health safety and wellbeing requirements within Rail Systems.
- Providing HSW Leadership, demonstrating a strong partnering ethos across the region.
- Building and developing relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Ownership of HSW Governance for the Rail Systems business.
- Influencing continuous improvement within the HSW function.
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Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Chartered membership of a relevant professional body (IOSH/IEMA) or working towards.
- Educated to Diploma/Degree/HNC level
- Rail and/or Construction industry experience and in particular CDM
- Must be able to obtain Personal Track Safety qualification which includes the associated medical and any other client specific minimum safety qualifications and associated medicals.
- Influencing and persuasion skills
- Analytical skills with an attention to detail
- Motivational, leadership and coaching skills
- Excellent communicator
- Displaying and demonstrating the Balfour Beatty behaviours at all times.
- Experienced incident investigator
- Experience of reviewing and producing HSW reports to executive level
- Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams and of working at a senior level.
- Must have prior experience of developing proactive relationships with customers
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Experience in rail construction environment
- Training qualification
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…
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About Us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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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