Health and Safety Advisor

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal private health care

Generous pension matching

Virtual GP service

26 days annual leave

Life assurance

Personal accident cover

Maternity/paternity leave benefits

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is recruiting for a Safety Services role focused on delivering expert advice and practical guidance to managers and employees across the East Anglian region. The role supports compliance with safety policies and industry best practices, with a strong emphasis on proactive management.

The position offers hybrid working with travel to sites across the Anglian Water region and requires a full UK driving licence. NEBOSH qualifications and strong communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Full UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel across the region required.
• Live within the Anglian Water region due to travel.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent is preferred; NEBOSH Certificate considered as minimum.
• Member of IOSH (Tech IOSH/MIOSH or Grad IOSH) preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert, timely safety advice to managers and staff to ensure legal and policy compliance.
• Support frontline managers to implement best practices in safety and health.
• Respond to safety enquiries from internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with safety colleagues to standardize safety approaches across the business.
• Lead safety audits, investigations, and reporting of significant incidents.

Skills

Full UK Driving Licence

Live within Anglian Water region

NEBOSH Diploma

IOSH membership

NEBOSH Certificate

Flexible in responding

Excellent communication

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

NEBOSH Certificate

Job description

Circa £49,000 - Depending on skills and experience per annum+ Car Allowance Permanent, Full-time (We may offer part time/flexible working depending on the role requirements, this can be discussed openly at interview) Location: Flexible with travel required to sites across the East Anglian Water region Anglian Water embraces a flexible working approach. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, with an average of 3 days per week being onsite across the Anglian Water region. Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team! At Anglian Water we are readying ourselves to begin delivery of our biggest ever capital and operational maintenance programmes in AMP8. Across our region we’ll see population growth of around 700,000 people and more demand than ever before from businesses. Anglian Water is at the forefront of enabling this growth – something we’re excited about and proud to play such a fundamental role in. Central to our values at Anglian Water is safety. As we start this new chapter, we’ll be working together with colleagues and partners to keep safety at the cornerstone of everything we do. In this role, you will provide professional and authoritative safety services, offering specialist advice across all areas of safety. Your expertise will be essential in enabling our managers, employees, and partner contractors to adhere to Anglian Water’s comprehensive health and safety policies, procedures, and practices. Join us in our mission to maintain the highest standards of safety and compliance across our operations.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide appropriate expert, timely (reactive and proactive), cost effective and practicable advice and guidance to managers and employees on safety matters in order to comply with legal and moral health and safety standards.
• Support and influence front line managers & staff to ensure that they understand and adhere to appropriate practices consistent with current legislation and industry best practice.
• Resolve enquiries received from customers (both internal and external) and respond as necessary.
• Provide appropriate and targeted support on procedures and guidance to managers and employees.
• Work with other safety professionals to ensure a consistent approach to safety and share best practice across the business.
• Review business unit performance and provide support and direction to identify areas requiring development and improvement.
• Carry out a programme of active management, safety audits and inspections
• Carry out detailed investigations and report on significant accidents, incidents and near misses.
• Assist in the development of the Safe & Well system ensuring that information is in a format which is readily understood, practicable and useable by managers and employees.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with partner contractors personnel to develop initiatives and common standards to raise H&S performance.

What does it take to be successful?

• Full UK Driving Licence due to the regular travel across the region
• Applicants must live within the Anglian Water Region due to the nature of the role and the travel required. This ensures timely access to our sites and effective collaboration with our team
• Ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (or having embarked on/part way through the course)
• Member of IOSH (Tech IOSH/MIOSH or Grad IOSH)
• NEBOSH Certificate as a minimum
• Flexible in responding to customer needs and safety team demands
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Don't meet every requirement on the job advert? Having a wealth of people from different backgrounds and with different experiences introduces new ways of thinking which transforms how we work. Challenging our thinking and decision-making helps us to continually improve. It also better reflects our region and the customers and communities that we serve every single day. Even if you are not successful for this particular role, your application could open other opportunities.

Closing date: 06/11/2026 #loveeverydrop #LI-SA2

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process.

If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.