Health & Safety Advisor

Principal People Recruitment; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a renowned subcontractor as a Health and Safety Advisor to enhance your career in a supportive environment. This diverse role within the construction sector involves practical safety support across multiple sites, ensuring compliance and promoting a strong safety culture. The position offers growth opportunities, a competitive salary, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Company car and fuel card

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Life assurance 4x the salary

10% Private pension scheme

10% Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in groundworks, piling, housebuilding, civil engineering environments.
• Working knowledge of ISO 45001 and auditing processes.
• Comfortable working in a site-based role with regular travel.

Responsibilities

• Supporting site teams across groundworks projects with health, safety matters.
• Conducting site inspections and audits.
• Promoting a positive safety culture through coaching and engagement.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Coaching

Incident Investigation

Education

NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate

Tools

ISO 45001

Job description

Want to join a specialist subcontractor with a strong safety culture, national presence, and long-term career prospects?

We ve partnered with a leading groundworks subcontractor to appoint a Health and Safety Advisor to support their Northern region.

Part of a large, well-respected infrastructure business, they ve earned a reputation for delivering complex ground engineering and foundation solutions across both commercial and domestic sectors. The business has multiple offices across the country, so you could be based in the Midlands or the North.

This is a key role within a stable and supportive health and safety team. You ll work closely with operational colleagues across multiple sites, providing practical support and driving a positive safety culture on the ground.

Working across Energy, Rail, Construction, or Infrastructure, this is a diverse role where no day is the same and will give you a broad exposure to many different environments, which would ideally suit a professional with some level of experience within a Construction based environment, looking for the next step in their career!

Key responsibilities of the Health and Safety Advisor include:

• Supporting site teams across groundworks projects with day-to-day health, safety matters.
• Conducting site inspections, audits and reporting.
• Promoting a positive safety culture through coaching and engagement.
• Supporting compliance with ISO standards and industry accreditations.
• Investigating incidents and supporting closeout of actions.
• Liaising with clients and operational teams on health and safety performance.

Why consider this Health and Safety Advisor role?

• Part of a well-respected subcontractor with a strong and stable leadership team.
• Opportunities to work on a wide variety of projects across the energy, civils and housebuilding sectors.
• Collaborative and supportive health and safety function.
• Ongoing investment in training, systems and innovation.
• Growing business with solid financial performance and steady pipeline of projects.

What s in it for you?

• Salary GBP40,000 GBP43,000
• Company car and fuel card
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Life assurance 4x the salary
• 10% Private pension scheme
• 10% Bonus scheme

What we re looking for:

• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate
• Experience in groundworks, piling, housebuilding, civil engineering environments
• Working knowledge of ISO 45001 and auditing processes
• Comfortable working in a site-based role with regular travel
• CPCS, SMSTS and TechIOSH are desirable

If you re looking to build your health and safety career with a company that values stability and safety, we d love to hear from you.