Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Health, Safety And Wellbeing Advisor
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our Highways Connect Plus Services Team.
The purpose of this role is to assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of processes aimed at managing health, safety & well-being risks within the Project. The role will support the organisation’s ambition to be a safe and responsible company regarding our people, supply chain partners and the communities we serve. We have site offices based around the M25 network, this role can be based from either Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms.
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.
What you'll be doing
This Role Will Be Principally Engaged In
- Provide day to day management, guidance, support and mentoring to the other HSW advisors.
- Being a visible champion for HSW throughout the project engaging with Operatives and Managers
- Oversee the implementation of Organisational Standards relating to HSW at a local level providing feedbacking to the HSW Managers on any areas of improvement or potential conflict with business requirements
- Monitor the delivery of the communications strategy to keep HSW on the operational delivery agenda and report back to the HSW Managers on the levels of effective communication
- To support the delivery of appropriate and adequate HSW training based on Project needs
- Support/ undertake targeted inspections of HSW management system and supply chain audits, tracking & supporting actions to close out
- Managing own diary and stakeholder communications to plan, schedule and conduct inspections and HSW conversations with site & depot based teams
- To prepare and communicate timely reports and presentations detailing performance data on inspection findings, tracking & supporting actions to close out
- To positively represent the Health, Safety & Well-being function and its strategy during conference calls and meetings
- To review work activities against safety system of work taking appropriate action and providing documented advice where necessary
- Support incident investigations, ensuring incidents are dealt with effectively with actions tracked to close out
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Who we're looking for
- Membership of a relevant professional body (IOSH)
- Professional qualification in health and safety (minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent)
- A current CSCS Card
- Clean, full driving license
- Able to maintain a regular night-time and weekend presence
- Utilise suite of Microsoft Office applications and digital platforms at an intermediate level to review data, identify themes and prepare representative graphs.
- Construction experience
Desirable
- Experience of working on a Joint Venture
- Prior experience facilitating meetings via digital platforms e.g. Teams, Zoom, Skype etc
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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