Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our Power Transmission & Distribution team in Norwich.
In this key role, you’ll play a vital part in driving our Zero Harm ambition—providing expert guidance, on-site coaching, and proactive support to ensure the highest standards of health, safety, and wellbeing across our projects. You’ll work closely with operational teams to promote safe behaviours, ensure compliance, and embed a positive safety culture on site.
As part of our Power T&D business, you’ll contribute to delivering critical infrastructure for electricity network owners and operators. From overhead lines and cabling to substations, our teams provide end-to-end solutions across the full lifecycle—ensuring a safe, reliable supply of power to millions of homes and businesses.
What you'll be doing
- Support the delivery of the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action Plan
- Undertake inspections, audits, site tours, and reviews, producing clear reports and actions
- Provide practical HSW advice, coaching, and support to site teams, supply chain, and subcontractors
- Engage early in planning and design to identify and control risk
- Promote safer ways of working using the hierarchy of control and behavioural safety principles
- Deliver HSW training, briefings, and toolbox talks to meet project needs
- Ensure compliance with HSW legislation, company policies, and the BMS
- Support incident investigations and ensure lessons learned are shared across the business
- Contribute to HSW initiatives, continuous improvement, and best practice sharing
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and support HSW input into work-winning activities
- Support audits, drive performance improvement, and champion HSW innovation across projects
Who we're looking for
- Educated to NEBOSH National Level Certificate or equivalent
- Good communicator with influencing and persuasion skills
- Approachable
- Good interpersonal skills and team player
- Displaying and demonstrating the Balfour Beatty behaviours at all times
- Incident/Accident investigator/fact finder
- Accurate record keeping
- Relevant experience in a construction/civils role
- UK driving licence holder and willing to travel when required
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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.
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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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national, and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations, and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction, and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources, and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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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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