HS&W Advisor - Nights

Balfour Beatty plc; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working options

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension

Job summary

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is recruiting an HSE Advisor (Nights) to support the HPC alliance at Hinkley Point C, delivering world‑class health, safety and environmental standards on site.

Embedded in the site H&S team, you’ll provide expert guidance, drive compliance, and promote the HPC Way with a strong 90% site presence. NEBOSH certification and construction experience are required.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate or equivalent.
• Proven construction experience.
• Strong understanding of health & safety regulations and site practices.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels.
• IT literate with Microsoft Office package.
• Ability to gain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health, safety and environmental standards are met across site.
• Provide expert HSE advice to multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct HSE inspections and report trends.
• Monitor contractor activities and promote safe working practices.
• Intervene on unsafe behaviours and offer practical solutions.
• Support incident investigations and promote learning.

Skills

NEBOSH General/Construction Cert

Construction experience

Health & safety regulations

Communication skills

MS Office

Security clearance

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About the role

At Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick, as part of the MEH Alliance, we are delivering one of the UK’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects. We are now looking for a proactive HSE Advisor (Nights) to join our team at Hinkley Point C and play a key role in ensuring world‑class health, safety, and environmental standards across site.

As an HSE Advisor, you will be embedded within the site’s integrated H&S team, supporting safe delivery across multi-disciplinary works. With a strong site presence (approx. 90% site‑based), you’ll provide expert advice, drive compliance, and champion the “HPC Way”.

What you'll be doing

• Ensuring health, safety, and environmental standards are consistently met across site
• Supporting a multi-functional project team with competent HSE advice
• Conducting HSE inspections (including work at height and confined spaces) and reporting trends
• Monitoring contractors and workforce activities, ensuring safe working practices
• Intervening on unsafe behaviours and offering practical solutions
• Supporting incident investigations and promoting learning across the site
• Building strong working relationships with Tier 1 partners and the Principal Contractor
• Providing specialist advice, including COSHH
• Supporting site-wide HSE initiatives and compliance activities

Who we're looking for

• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate (or equivalent)
• Proven construction experience
• Strong understanding of health & safety regulations and site practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage across all levels
• IT literate with experience using Microsoft package
• Ability to gain a security clearance

Desirable

• Knowledge of SG4.15, TG20.13, and work at height regulations
• Experience with lifting and rigging (LOLER) and/or ICATS
• Background working alongside electrical teams
• IOSH membership (or working towards)
• Experience within nuclear or highly regulated environments
• Awareness of COSHH, DSEAR, and auditing processes

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 Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

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