Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor
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About The Role
Help shape safer, healthier and more sustainable construction.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to provide expert guidance, visible leadership and practical support across our projects. You’ll work closely with operational teams, clients, designers and supply chain partners to strengthen our positive safety culture and help deliver our Zero Harm ambitions.
This role is covering projects in our Southern portfolio such as Piccadilly Line Upgrade, Cockfosters and Stratford.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the local delivery of our Zero Harm strategy and action plan through visible, credible leadership.
- Provide project teams with trusted technical advice and practical HS&E support.
- Build collaborative relationships with internal teams, clients, regulators, industry forums and supply chain partners.
- Agree and regularly review risk-based service levels with project teams to maintain compliance and assurance.
- Carry out site inspections, document findings and identify both risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Support investigations into accidents, incidents and near misses in line with company standards.
- Partner with design and engineering teams to eliminate or reduce HS&E risk through design.
- Contribute high-quality HS&E responses to bids, proposals and pre-qualification questionnaires.
- Challenge established ways of working, share successes and mentor colleagues across the HS&E community.
Who we're looking for
- A relevant Health & Safety Diploma, NVQ, degree or equivalent Level 6 qualification. We may also consider applicants with a certificate who are working towards a Level 6 qualification and bring relevant site experience.
- Chartered Membership of IOSH, or active progress towards it.
- A strong understanding of the UK health and safety regulatory framework.
- The confidence to influence, engage and communicate effectively at every level.
- Experience of project planning, project management and working to budgets.
- Competence in incident investigation and the ability to produce clear, formal HS&E reports.
- Broad experience of complex construction and civil engineering projects, or a comparable sector.
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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 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.
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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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