Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager - Grays

Balfour Beatty; Grays; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in the UK seeks a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager to join their Highways team on the Lower Thames Crossing project. The role involves supporting the project with health and safety compliance and leading the HSW team to drive performance. Essential qualifications include NEBOSH Construction Certificate and leadership experience. Benefits include smart working options, generous leave, and family-friendly policies, among others.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days paid annual leave

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience in the construction industry or an equivalent sector.
• Ability to provide leadership to operational and functional teams.
• Detailed knowledge of health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Manage day to day Health, Safety & Wellbeing resources.
• Support work winning and bid support for operational teams.
• Conduct project and business sector HSW performance reviews.

Skills

Health and safety legislation knowledge

Leadership

Technical knowledge

Communication

Education

NVQ Level 4/5 or equivalent

NEBOSH Construction Certificate/Diploma

Certified Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Manager to join our Highways team on the Lower Thames Crossing project.

The Lower Thames Crossing will create a new connection under the River Thames to increase capacity and ease congestion in the South of England. Balfour Beatty is responsible for the design and delivery of over 10 miles of new highways, connecting the M25 at Junction 29 and the A13 with the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel at Tilbury, Essex.

The HSW Manager will support the Project Director, Head of HSW and Project Senior Teams to deliver Zero Harm. They will drive performance of the relevant HSW teams ensuring efficient and effective service and support levels to meet and where possible exceed operational requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage day to day Health, Safety & Wellbeing resources to support Operations implement the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policy and standards across the project in their area of responsibility.
• Manage the resource allocation and deployment of competent HSW delivery resource across their area of responsibility, ensuring resource utilisation data is collected and made available to implement a risk‑based support schedule.
• Support work winning and bid support for the operational teams, where
  required.
• Manage the programme of inspection and audit to provide assurance that all the project continues to comply with company requirements.
• Fulfil HSW, Customer and Balfour Beatty incident reporting and performance requirements (7 Day Report, KPIs,) and act as incident lead if required.
• In collaboration with Project Director/Head of Operations Directors, carry out
  project and business sector HSW performance reviews using lagging and leading indicators.
• Support the Operations/Project Director with contract/project level SHELTs to drive and deliver HSW improvement plans.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of developments in Health and Safety.
• Lead, develop and coach individuals to build high performing teams and create a pipeline of talent, sharing learnings and contributing to continuous improvement.
• Develop professional relationships with customers and specifically their
  HSW professionals.
• Ensure key stakeholders are aligned on priorities and details of the HSW Strategy and Plans.
• To develop and deliver suitable HSW training programmes for all project personnel (including routine contract inductions) in line with budget.
• To provide support and management of external audits and liaise to assist in the provision of corrective actions and closeout of audit findings.
• To manage the team in identifying the HSW competencies/certification required for staff and ensure these are delivered and maintained. Ensure that appropriate and auditable records are kept and maintained, monitor such records through audit and inspections.
• To lead on the reviewing and advising on Method Statements and Risk Assessments both internally and from the Supply Chain.
• Manage/drive internal and External working groups.
• Deputise for the Head of HSW where required.
• Produce material and organise HSW standdown and workshops as required.

Who we’re looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Certified Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards).
• NVQ Level 4/5 (or equivalent qualification/experience).
• NEBOSH Construction Certificate / Diploma.
• Must have detailed, technical knowledge and experience health and safety legislation, regulations and guidance.
• Construction industry experience (or experience in an equivalent sector) and in particular CDM, previous experience of Highway and Structures construction desirable.
• Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]