Safety Business Partner - Reservoirs

Anglian Water; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Safety Business Partner - Reservoirs to lead safety and wellbeing across the Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs Programme. This pivotal role requires extensive experience in health and safety, particularly in major infrastructure projects, and offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The position combines office and hybrid working, with significant responsibilities in shaping safety strategies and ensuring compliance throughout the project lifecycle.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Car allowance

Personal private health care

Annual bonus scheme

26 days leave plus Bank Holidays

Life Cover at 8x salary

Flexible benefits for wellbeing

Free parking at all offices

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior health & safety role.
• Relevant safety qualifications or certifications.
• Experience on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the safety strategy.
• Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations and legal obligations.
• Develop and report on safety KPIs and metrics.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Stakeholder Management

Crisis Management

Safety Culture Promotion

Education

NEBOSH Certification

Health and Safety related Masters or Degree

Job description

Location: Peterborough & Hybrid Working | Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £90,000 Plus Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits Package based on experience
Closing Date: 5th June 2025

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office/site. Your based location would be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough but there would be travel across the Anglian Water region as part of your role.

Refreshingly different careers

Are you a senior health and safety professional with a proven track record of leading major infrastructure projects from the ground up? Do you want to play a pivotal role in delivering one of the UK's most ambitious water infrastructure programmes? If so, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Anglian Water is delivering the multi-billion-pound Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs Programme, and we're looking for a Safety Business Partner - Reservoirs to lead the safety and wellbeing strategy across the entire lifecycle of this nationally significant project.

These schemes in the Fens and Lincolnshire, are the UK's largest water projects under the water sector regulator Ofwat/RAPID's national Strategic Resource Option programme. Together they will secure water supplies for future generations across the East of England. Both are Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NCIPs) requiring development consent order (DCO) planning approvals and the establishment of new delivery contract arrangements with associated project financing.

As the Safety Business Partner, you will be the strategic lead for all health, safety, and wellbeing activity across the Reservoirs Programme. Reporting to the Head of Health and Safety and working closely with the Programme Director, you will be embedded in the leadership team to ensure safety is integrated into every decision and every phase of the programme.

This is not just a compliance role - it's a leadership position that requires vision, influence, and the ability to drive cultural change. You will be responsible for shaping the safety strategy from the earliest planning stages, through procurement, design, construction, and into operational readiness.

As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:

-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

- A car allowance

-Personal private health care

-Annual bonus scheme

-26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

-Life Cover at 8x your salary

-Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary

-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

-Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

What you'll be doing:

- Lead the development and implementation of the safety and wellbeing strategy for the Reservoirs Programme, aligned with Anglian Water's Safer Every Day culture.

- Provide expert safety input from project inception through to completion, including early-stage planning, contractor procurement, enabling works, and construction.

- Lead 'project' health and safety professionals (including those from partners and supply chain) in ensuring health, safety and wellbeing processes are in place for all aspects of programme activity which will include (but is not limited to); on-boarding and induction, large-scale site survey and ground investigation works, and enabling works facilitation/construction activities.

- Develop and report on safety KPIs and metrics, providing insight and assurance to senior leadership and driving continuous improvement.

- Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations and other legal obligations, including client duties and assurance against Regulation 4.

- Support the development of emergency response and crisis management plans for the programme.

What does it take to be successful?

- Extensive experience in a senior health & safety role

- Relevant Safety qualifications or certifications including NEBOSH, CSP or a Health and Safety related Masters, Degree or Diploma

- Proven experience of working on major/mega infrastructure project development or experience on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) under the Development Consent Order (DCO) regime)

- Experience of proactively driving a positive safety culture within supply chains

- Experience of emergency response and crisis planning.

- Ability to produce documentation and reports for a range of audiences (both strategic and tactical)

- Experience of strong stakeholder management and business partnering relationships

- Ability to work with and influence directors and senior leaders to ensure the adoption of a leading health and safety culture

- Full UK Driving Licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Closing date: 5th June 2025

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