Balfour Beatty plc
Health Safety & Wellbeing Manager
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About The Role
Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Manager - Balfour Beatty - @one Alliance
Location: Peterborough / Hybrid working available
Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the @Anglian Water @one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we progress through AMP8, our most ambitious asset management period to date, we're delivering nature-based and sustainable infrastructure, from wetlands to urban drainage schemes, setting new benchmarks for environmental performance.
We're looking for an experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Manager who is passionate about creating safe, healthy and inclusive workplaces and who thrives in a collaborative delivery environment.
As HSW Manager, you'll be a visible leader across our projects, helping shape a culture where everyone takes ownership of health, safety, wellbeing and environmental performance. You'll work alongside delivery teams from design through to construction and commissioning, ensuring our Safer Every Day culture is embedded across everything we do.
What you'll be doing
Working closely with the Head of SHE, Delivery Directors and senior leaders across the Alliance, you'll influence decision making, coach teams, support innovation and ensure our ambitious programme is delivered safely, sustainably and responsibly.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the implementation of our Health, Safety, Environment and Wellbeing (SHEW) strategy across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects.
- Provide expert advice and coaching to project teams, managers and senior leaders on all aspects of health, safety, wellbeing and environmental management.
- Spend time on site building relationships, engaging with teams and leading by example to promote positive safety behaviours.
- Support projects throughout design, construction and commissioning, ensuring risks are identified early and managed effectively.
- Plan and coordinate HSW resources across the programme, ensuring projects receive the right level of support at every stage.
- Deliver site inspections, audits, assurance activities and performance reviews, identifying opportunities for continual improvement.
- Champion mental health, wellbeing and behavioural safety initiatives, helping create a culture where people feel supported to speak up.
- Build collaborative relationships with Alliance partners, subcontractors and suppliers to drive consistent standards and share best practice.
- Support the adoption of digital tools and data-driven insights to improve health, safety and environmental performance.
- Promote innovation, continuous learning and inclusive ways of working across the Alliance.
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Who we're looking for
What You'll Bring
- Previous Health & Safety experience within construction, utilities or major infrastructure programmes.
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
- TechIOSH membership or above (working towards Chartered membership is desirable).
- Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and best practice.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders and operational teams alike.
- Experience undertaking audits, inspections, investigations and coaching teams to improve performance.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify trends.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- A collaborative approach, with the ability to build strong relationships and positively influence teams across a complex delivery environment.
Join us and help shape safer, healthier workplaces that empower people and support exceptional project delivery.
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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’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.
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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