Balfour Beatty plc
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager
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Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager
About The Role
Balfour Beatty are looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Manager to join our Regional Scotland – Energy team, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
This role leads the day-to-day delivery of Health & Safety across the project, ensuring policies and standards are consistently applied and risks are effectively managed. You’ll oversee HSW resources using a risk-based approach, provide assurance through audits and inspections, support bids and work-winning, and work closely with operational leaders to drive strong HSW performance, incident management, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
- Manage day-to-day Health and Safety resources to support Operations.
- Implement the Health and Safety Policy and standards across their area of responsibility.
- Manage the resource allocation and deployment of competent HSW delivery resource, ensuring resource utilisation data is collected to implement a risk-based support schedule.
- Support work winning and bid support for the operational teams where required.
- Manage the programme of inspection and audit to provide assurance that all continue to comply with company requirements.
- Fulfill HSW, Customer, and Balfour Beatty incident reporting and performance requirements (including:
- 7-Day Reports
- KPIs)
- Act as an incident lead if required.
- In collaboration with Project Director/Head of Operations, carry out project and business sector HSW performance reviews using lagging and leading indicators.
- Support the Operations/Project Director with contract/project level SHELT to drive and deliver HSW improvement plans.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of developments in Health & Safety.
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Who We're Looking For
The following qualities and experience are essential:
- Corporate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards).
- NVQ Level 4/5 (or equivalent qualification/experience).
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate / Diploma.
- Detailed technical knowledge and experience in health and safety legislation, regulations, and guidance.
- Construction industry experience (or experience in an equivalent sector), with preference given to those with CDM experience.
- Prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams.
Why Work for Us?
Balfour Beatty delivers ambitious and meaningful infrastructure projects that strengthen communities.
Benefits
Aside from contributing to work that has a measurable societal impact, Balfour Beatty offers an extensive range of benefits to make work-life balance and well-being a priority:
- Smart working: Up to 40% remote working (where roles allow), with flexible start and finish times.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro-rated).
- Family-friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, and recognition schemes.
- And many more tailored perks!
About Us
For over a century, Balfour Beatty has been delivering critical infrastructure and iconic buildings in Scotland, from Dunfermline’s tramways to highland hospitals today. We aim to deliver projects safely, with value for money, and social impact, supporting Scotland’s net-zero transition in architecture and construction.
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We’re committed to sustainability and social responsibility, as seen in our award-winning projects such as:
- Active travel schemes
- Passivhaus developments
- Retrofit initiatives
Diversity and Inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to reach their full potential.
Our commitments include:
- Growing a diverse workforce through our Value Everyone: Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
- Supporting underrepresented groups through partnerships with:
- [WISE](https://wise campaign.org.uk/)
- enei
- Business Disability Forum
- Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE)
- Signing the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to advance Black inclusion and long-term action plans.
- Awarded a Gold status in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, actively encouraging applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are dedicated to:
- Removing barriers for candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
- Offering interviews to applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum role requirements.
For more details, visit: Disability Confident Campaign.
We continually seek to improve our recruitment processes for fairness and inclusivity. If you have feedback, please share it via: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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