HSEQ Advisor

Ex-armed Forces; Grimsargh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Armed Forces-friendly

Job summary

Network Plus is recruiting an HSEQ Advisor to join a central HSEQ Team, supporting one regional contract under the HSEQ Lead. The role focuses on promoting compliance, driving document control, and ensuring staff awareness of issues raised.

You will conduct site-based audits, support inductions, investigations, and provide regular reports while improving processes and training to maintain high safety standards across operations.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH or equivalent HSEQ qualification.
• IOSH membership demonstrates professional HSEQ standing.
• Experience in distribution/utility environments and audit routines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain safety and compliance standards and address issues promptly.
• Support inductions and verification inspections; close findings.
• Assist accident investigations and ensure quality reporting.
• Encourage near-miss reporting and corrective actions close-out.
• Prepare regular performance and issue reports for leadership.

Skills

Audits & inspections

Incident investigations

Stakeholder liaison

CDM regulations

Driving licence

Education

NEBOSH Certificate / NEBOSH Construction (or equivalent)

IOSH Membership

Job description

Description As a HSEQ Advisor, you will be part of a central HSEQ Team with responsibility for one of our regional contracts reporting to the HSEQ Lead. You will be responsible for promoting compliance throughout the business and for escalating all issues identified. You will also be responsible for ensuring employees are made aware of issues raised and for promoting document control and system compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that safety and compliance standards are maintained, and any issues are addressed immediately
• Support operational inductions
• Complete verification inspections - follow up on closure of findings/nonconformances
• Support the accident and incident investigations, and promote good quality reporting and closure
• Complete and encourage unsafe acts/conditions and positive intervention reporting
• Complete a weekly and monthly report on achievements and issues identified
• Communicate and drive an efficient close out of corrective actions raised by the Compliance

Department and external auditors

• Compile Accident/Incident Stats for the contracts and attend client meetings
• Engage with the client to build strong relationships
• Work with the wider operational team to maintain strong relationships and improve processes/systems where possible
• Drive the correct and safe behaviours out on-site and within the office
• Support the contract on training and competency requirements, ensuring that the contracts are achieving the highest standards of training compliance
• Evolve within the business and be willing to learn more about the products / services that we provide.

Experience and Qualifications

• H&S qualification e.g. NEBOSH Certificate / NEBOSH Construction (or equivalent)
• IOSH Membership
• Electrically biased with demonstrable experience in both Underground (UG) operations.
• Proven experience working within Distribution Network Operator (DNO) environments.
• Confident in undertaking site-based audits and inspections independently and collaboratively.
• Capable of leading incident investigations, identifying root causes, and implementing effective corrective actions.
• Comfortable in a hands‑on role, regularly engaging with operational teams and attending sites.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to liaise with site teams, contractors, and client representatives effectively.
• Able to support and influence operational delivery teams to maintain and improve HSEQ standards in a practical, supportive manner.
• Experience working under CDM regulations within a utility or power infrastructure environment is essential.
• Full UK Driving Licence

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.

Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

We are Armed Forces-friendly.

We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We understand that privacy and the security of your personal information is extremely important.

About Network Plus

Network Plus is an award-winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK’s major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater. We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer. We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment – we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.