Health & Safety Advisor

Mace; West of England; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace is delivering a major energy project at Hinkley Point C and seeks a safety, health and environment professional to join the team. You will influence pre-construction planning, develop risk profiles and provide assurance that CDM duties are met across design and construction activities.

You will coordinate with contractors to resolve health and safety interface issues on a large, high-risk site, and you will be a subject matter expert in constructability, operability and maintainability

Qualifications

• Ability to analyse technically demanding information and identify risks.
• Clear communication of complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience coordinating between contractors on safety interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Participating and advise as a subject matter expert in HSE reviews.
• Carrying out inspections, investigations, and reporting on safety issues.

Skills

Result focus

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Engagement skills

Vision & strategy

CDM Regulations knowledge

Education

Tech IOSH or equivalent

NEBOSH HSE diploma or European equivalent

Job description

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

The project:

Hinkley Point C is helping to secure the UK's low‑carbon energy future, delivering reliable, affordable electricity to millions of homes for generations to come. As part of this nationally significant programme, you'll join a world‑class team driving innovation, collaboration and excellence across every stage of delivery. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a project of unprecedented scale and complexity, while developing your career in an environment where your expertise, leadership and ambition can make a lasting impact.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Participating in creating, maintaining, and improving health and safety in the workplace.
• Influencing the multi-disciplinary team on health and safety issues relating to pre-construction planning and project evolution.
• Developing timely project-based health and safety risk profiles to direct risk-based inspection and other assurance activities.
• Providing assurance to the client organisations that designers and principal contractors are complying with their requirements under construction (Design and Management) regulations 2015.
• Participating and advise as a subject matter expert in constructability, maintainability, and operability reviews.
• Undertaking inspections, carry out accident investigations, keep records and write reports.
• Coordinating and collate information required to produce scheduled health and safety reports and identify trends and early warnings of possible issues and recommend appropriate action.
• Carrying out audits of construction activities on site to ensure that the requirements set out in the construction phase plan are adhered to.
• Providing advice on the interpretation and application of the health and safety management system. This to include provision of relevant training, briefings, and information.
• Carrying out regular behavioural safety conversations with construction contractors on site.
• Pro‑active creation and implementation of programmes to underpin zero tolerance to HSE issues/problems.
• Increasing awareness of all HSE matters.
• Working with peers in other disciplines to ensure creation of coherent and integrated polices and systems that avoid unnecessary duplication and dissipation of effort.
• Be an effective and participative member of a team of safety, health, and environmental professionals.

You’ll Need To Have

• Result focus tempered with team centered approach.
• Highly skilled in the analysis of technically demanding and detailed information and quickly identify the underlying issues and risks.
• Strong capacity to be future focused in identifying risks and implications. Strong communication skills to be able to put across complex concepts and data in a way that is readily understood and actionable, using a variety of media.
• Skillful in engaging others with technical issues and maintaining their interest and enthusiasm.
• Skillful in distilling knowledge and building skills in others and the capacity to be pragmatic and practical in the way that technical issues are addressed.
• Good knowledge of large organisational, process plant and site, operations.
• Ability to establish a vision and develop/implement strategy to attain it.
• Excellent knowledge of national and international HSE standards.
• Excellent knowledge of CDM Regulations.
• Proven track record of achieving excellent safety results on major engineering and construction projects.
• Significant HSE experience within a large project setting.
• Experience of coordinating between contractors to support resolving health and safety interface issues across complex and high‑risk operations.
• Tech IOSH or equivalent.
• NEBOSH HSE diploma or European equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge of CDM regulations.

Our values

Safety first - Going home safe and well:

We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise:

We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.

Integrity - Always do the right thing:

We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel:

We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.