Health and Safety Advisor

Precision; Oldham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering contractor in the UK is seeking an experienced Health & Safety Advisor. You will promote a strong health, safety and welfare culture while ensuring compliance with legislation across multiple civil engineering sites. Responsibilities include conducting audits, producing risk assessments, and liaising with statutory bodies. This is a minimum 12-month fixed contract with potential for extension, offering the chance to work on diverse and challenging projects in a reputable firm.

Qualifications

• Experienced Health & Safety Advisor in civil engineering environments.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and welfare legislation.
• Proven experience within civil engineering, highways or utilities.

Responsibilities

• Promote health, safety and welfare culture across multiple sites.
• Ensure compliance with health & safety legislation and best practices.
• Carry out site inspections, audits, and compliance reviews.

Skills

Health & Safety knowledge

Excellent communication

Stakeholder engagement

Organizational skills

Education

Recognised Health & Safety qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

This is a minimum 12-month fixed contract working on a range of live civil engineering, highways and utilities projects. You will play a key role in promoting a positive health & safety culture across site teams, ensuring compliance with legislation, industry best practice and company procedures. Working alongside the existing Health & Safety and operational leadership team, you will provide professional advice, carry out audits and inspections, and support the effective implementation of health & safety systems across multiple sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Promoting a strong health, safety and welfare culture across civils, highways and utilities projects
• Ensuring compliance with current health & safety legislation, standards and best practice
• Producing Construction Phase Plans, risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments
• Carrying out regular site inspections, audits and compliance reviews
• Investigating accidents, incidents and near misses and producing detailed reports
• Advising on the safe use of plant, equipment and PPE
• Supporting occupational health, wellbeing and site hygiene initiatives
• Liaising with the HSE and other statutory bodies where required
• Identifying training requirements and supporting the delivery of relevant H&S training Maintaining training records, competence matrices and accreditation requirements
• Providing guidance and mentoring to junior health & safety team members
• Working collaboratively with Contracts Managers, Site Managers and engineers
• Leading by example and promoting best practice behaviours across all sites

Required Qualifications and Experience

• To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced Health & Safety Advisor with a strong background in civil engineering environments, ideally within highways, utilities or infrastructure works.
• You will be confident working across multiple live sites and engaging with both site teams and senior management.
• Recognised Health & Safety qualification with evidence of ongoing CPD
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and welfare legislation
• Proven experience within civil engineering, highways or utilities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple sites and priorities
• Comfortable using IT systems including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Proactive, professional and solutions-focused approach
• Ability to work independently and as part of a wider management team

About the Employer

• We are representing a well-established civil engineering contractor operating across highways, utilities, public realm and specialist infrastructure works. The business has a strong regional presence and an excellent reputation for delivering technically challenging projects safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
• This is an excellent opportunity to secure a long-term contract and depending on performance during the 12-month contract, this could lead to being extended or being taken on a full-time permanent contract.

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