Health And Safety Advisor

Climate17 | B Corp™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Health and Safety Advisor to lead compliance efforts in the decarbonisation of heat networks across the UK. This role involves developing strategic health and safety systems, ensuring legal compliance, and fostering a positive safety culture within the organization. With a focus on stakeholder engagement and project delivery, you will work on a variety of construction projects, making a significant impact on the safety and efficiency of operations. If you are passionate about sustainability and safety, this opportunity offers a chance to contribute meaningfully to the future of energy in the UK.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Remote work options

Health and wellness programs

Qualifications

• Degree level/NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational H&S or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in H&S Management.

Responsibilities

• Promote a positive H&S culture and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.
• Conduct audits and incident investigations to improve safety standards.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Stakeholder Engagement

CDM Regulations

Building Safety Act Knowledge

Education

NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational H&S

Degree in Health and Safety or related field

Tools

ISO 9001

ISO 14001

ISO 45001

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Climate17 is excited to be working with a heat network consultancy playing a leading role in the decarbonisation of heat in the UK.

The Health & Safety Advisor reports to Head of Delivery and is to develop and implement strategic Health and Safety (H&S) systems and ensure/monitor compliance with those and all relevant legislation. The H&S Advisor is also to monitor H&S risks and hazards in the workplace and ensure that the business is legally compliant with all H&S legislation.

The role will require a mix of H&S, CDM and strong stakeholder management. You must be proactive and comfortable working with minimal supervision. You must be engaged in your own personal development as it is essential the Health and Safety Advisor maintains currency and competency with all relevant H&S legislation. The projects are UK wide and involves travel to site with presence required in the London office once a month, there is flexibility for this person to be based anywhere in the UK.

The Health and Safety Advisor will be supporting the project delivery and engineering teams working on a range of live heat network construction projects of the following typical scope:

• Plantroom and network end of life equipment replacements.
• Full plantroom and network retrofits to improve performance (e.g. Heat Network Efficiency Scheme funded projects).
• Heat pump retrofits to decarbonise existing buildings (e.g. PSDS project delivery management).
• HIU and heat meter upgrade/replacement works.
• District Heating project installations, including energy centres, buried networks and substation plantrooms.

Job responsibilities

To support the above projects, you will be expected to:

• Promote a positive H&S culture within the business.
• Review, monitor, audit and advise across a ranch of projects, with multiple live contracts at different stages of design, construction, commissioning and hand over.
• Provide Building Safet Act support and guidance to ensure internal and external stakeholders are fully aware of the requirements of the act, and where appropriate, assist in the required processes to ensure the business is fully compliant and informed.
• Assist in delivery of audit programmes to ensure compliance with management systems prompted under ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 standards.
• Ensure a timely and effective response to H&S incidents, conducting incident investigations to gather evidence necessary to identify the cause of incident and injuries to determine root causes, documenting findings and recommendations to prevent a re-occurrence.
• Help maintain safety standards in respect of emergency response; helping carry out drills and exercises to help manage emergencies.
• Use specific knowledge and understanding to partner and provide insightful, timely challenge to sub-contracted delivery partners and others in respect to delivery of H&S at project level, in compliance with CDM 2015, applying the Principles of Prevention throughout the project in order to promote safe working environment/practices.
• Review, comment and advise on the suitability of contractors H&S management documentation to ensure key risks have been considered and addressed.
• Ensure that data with regards H&S performance is effectively captured and analysed to enable improvement plans to be developed. This is to include the recording of all the business’ reporting figures for accidents, near misses and days.
• Advise employees on how to minimise or avoid risks and hazards in the workplace.
• Oversee and monitor the H&S management of the project, ensuring the Construction Phase Plan is suitable and sufficient for the planned works, relevant RAMS are in place and fully reviewed for all internal and external works.
• Ensure that all near misses, incidents and accidents are reported in line with the relevant processes and that any incident that falls within RIDDOR is reported to the HSE and fully investigated.
• Undertake periodic H&S audits and site inspections to ensure compliance with safe working practices.
• Periodically review internal H&S procedures to ensure compliance with legislation and implement changes as required.
• Identify H&S training needs and design, deliver or arrange H&S training events as required.
• Ensure full compliance with the Construction and Design Management Regulations (CDM 2015) and ensure that all legal duties are carried out, documented and regularly reviewed.
• Advise our clients on whether sufficient time and resources are being allowed for during design, tendering, tender review, mobilisation and construction.
• Work closely with Principal Designers and Principal Contractors to ensure pre-construction H&S information is gathered for issue to designers and contractors. You will also be required to ensure requirements are clearly understood and communicated to the project delivery team.

Job requirements

• Degree level/NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational H&S (or equivalent).
• A certified member of IOSH/APS with clear evidence of up to date continued professional development.
• Thorough knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022 including the BSR gateways, roles and responsibilities and competency requirements.
• A Managers CSCS Black Card.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in H&S Management.
• A thorough knowledge of CDM 2015 regulations.
• Good working knowledge of Streetworks, Temporary Works, Excavations, Asbestos, Confined Spaces & Lifting Operations.
• Experience with high level stakeholder engagement, ideally councils and highways departments.
• Demonstratable experience of working and advising clients during construction projects.
• A HSE recognised First Aid at work qualification.

About Us

Climate17 is a purpose-led, international Renewable Energy & Sustainability recruitment firm. We provide specialist talent acquisition services to organisations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint, as well as those working towards the decarbonisation of the energy sector.

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Climate17 is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We believe there is no solution to climate change without people. We aim to increase diversity across all areas and as such, we are committed to partnering with clients and candidates to create an inclusive and sustainable regenerative world.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, or whether they have a disability.

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