Health and Safety Advisor

EDF Energy; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Join EDF Energy as a Health & Safety Advisor at Hinkley Point C to enhance safety standards in a leading nuclear project. You will provide crucial advice and support, ensuring the highest health and safety performance across all operations while promoting a culture of safety and inclusivity.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Health insurance

Gym membership

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Significant HSE experience within a large project setting.
• Excellent communication skills to network within EDF and construction industry.
• Strong analytical skills for identifying risks.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice and guidance on health and safety matters.
• Monitor health and safety performance through inspections and audits.
• Maintain clear communication between relevant departments.

Skills

Communication

Risk Analysis

Technical Knowledge

Education

Tech IOSH or equivalent

NEBOSH HSE Diploma or European equivalent

Job description

About the Role

Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater.

Are you passionate about ensuring safety and well-being in the workplace? Join us as a Health & Safety Advisor and play a crucial role in promoting and maintaining the highest standards of health and safety at Hinkley Point C.

The Opportunity

At Hinkley Point C (HPC) we are building two new nuclear reactors, the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK providing low carbon electricity for around six million homes.

The Health and Safety Advisor will work as part of a team of Health and Safety Advisors providing the highest standard of advice and support to the HPC CDM Client and Principal Contractor management teams. Working in a collaborative, assertive and supportive manner, the Health and Safety Advisor will undertake a range of safety programme-based activities which include day to day provision of technical advice and guidance on all project health and safety matters and risk based intelligent monitoring all of which contributes to EDF Energy’s goal of zero harm.

Pay, Benefits & Culture

The salary associated with this role is Circa £66,000per annum, depending on experience. We offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You’ll Be Doing

The Health and Safety Advisor will operate by undertaking a range of planned advice, guidance and support activities which focus on establishing, promoting, maintaining, and continually improving the Hinkley Point C (HPC) CDM Client and Principal Contractor management arrangements; positively promoting and reinforcing NNB Genco standards; and monitoring/measuring the NNB and supply chain health and safety performance through risk-based inspections and audits.

Maintaining and developing internal and external relationships, providing clear communication between relevant departments and external contractors. Collating and disseminating safety related information and the ability to influence and encourage attitudes and behaviours towards safety.

Each Health and Safety Advisor will be assigned to support one of the NNB core Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT); integrating with the MDT providing advice and support on all H&S issues and risks associated with the MDT works ensuring all NNB Client and Principal Contractor duties are fulfilled. The Health and Safety Advisor will maintain clear reporting lines to the HPC Lead Health and Safety Advisor and the MDT Senior Construction Delivery Lead.

Who You Are

You’ll have significant HSE experience within a large project setting. Excellent communication skills to enable you to develop a wide network and working relationships within EDF and the construction industry. Have a strong capacity to be future focused in identifying risks and implications.

Hold a Tech IOSH or equivalent and a NEBOSH HSE Diploma or European equivalent. You are highly skilled in the analysis of technically demanding and detailed information and can quickly identify the underlying issues and risks.

You possess good knowledge of large organisational, process plant and site operations, and excellent knowledge of national and international HSE standards and CDM Regulations. You’ll have a proven track record of achieving excellent safety results on major engineering and construction projects.

Closing date for applications is 18th June 2025.

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