Health & Safety Advisor — Water Projects (North West)

MWH Treatment Limited; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment Limited is seeking a Health and Safety Advisor to support our North West water projects. You will provide practical health and safety advice, assurance, and coaching to project teams, helping manage risk and drive performance improvements across the lifecycle.

The role requires NECOSH/IOSH qualifications, strong investigation and audit experience, and the ability to travel across the North West to sites.

Qualifications

• Experience in health and safety roles within high‑risk environments.
• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and CDM 2015.
• Proven ability to lead investigations and root‑cause analysis.
• Experience with audits and assurance activities.
• Ability to communicate findings and influence action.
• Willingness to travel across the North West region.

Responsibilities

• Understand and apply our approach to managing health and safety risk and delivering best‑in‑class performance.
• Provide practical advice and support to managers, supervisors, project teams and the workforce on health and safety legislation, company procedures and good practice.
• Monitor corrective actions through to timely close‑out and verify that the actions taken are effective and deliver sustained improvement.
• Plan and undertake site inspections, audits and health and safety assurance visits, clearly reporting findings and agreeing proportionate actions with project teams.
• Lead or support accident, incident and near‑miss investigations using appropriate root‑cause analysis, communicate lessons learned and confirm the effectiveness of resulting actions.
• Integrate with wider project teams to understand day‑to‑day challenges, influence planning and support risk elimination and effective control.
• Work collaboratively with clients, designers, the supply chain and other stakeholders to improve health and safety performance.
• Support health and safety throughout the project lifecycle, including design, planning, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Review high risk activity risk assessments, method statements and project health and safety documentation, identifying opportunities for safer and more sustainable solutions.
• Analyse health and safety performance data, identify trends and provide clear reports and recommendations to support improvement.
• Support the maintenance and continual improvement of our externally certified management systems, including ISO 45001.

Skills

Health and safety management

Risk assessment

Incident investigation

Data analysis

Report writing

Audits

Workforce engagement

Leadership

Coaching

Communication

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

NEBOSH Construction Certificate

TechIOSH

IOSH membership

Tools

ISO 45001

HSE management systems

Root-cause analysis

Job description

MWH Treatment Limited is seeking a Health and Safety Advisor to support our North West water projects. You will provide practical health and safety advice, assurance, and coaching to project teams, helping manage risk and drive performance improvements across the lifecycle.

The role requires NECOSH/IOSH qualifications, strong investigation and audit experience, and the ability to travel across the North West to sites.