Lead SHEQ Advisor

JN Bentley; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mott MacDonald Bentley in Scotland seeks a Lead SHEQ Advisor to act as senior client contact for SHEQ requirements and to support across multiple sites.

You will lead incident investigations, own performance metrics and drive safety initiatives while mentoring the team, with travel to sites across the operating region as required.

Qualifications

• Experience with construction health and safety challenges.
• Chartership achieved or in progress.
• Proven management and client liaison experience.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Valid driving licence and willingness to travel to sites.
• Experience in incident investigations and RCA close-outs.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Experience allocating project responsibilities.
• Experience creating guidance documents.
• Competence in performance monitoring and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior contact for Client SHEQ requirements.
• Coordinate with Operations Director to focus SHEQ support on key areas.
• Lead investigations of SHEQ incidents and report trends.
• Own SHEQ performance metrics and reporting.
• Coordinate SHEQ attendance at design reviews and CM/SM meetings.
• Provide SHEQ information to the HS&E Executive.
• Support Health & Safety Strategy via Talk Safe and Talk Green, promote I Care.
• Help develop and promote the High Energy Hazard programme.
• Foster innovation within the SHEQ unit.
• Ensure robust induction delivery.
• Review training needs and development pathways.
• Author SHEQ instructions documents.

Skills

Construction Safety

Client liaison

Leadership

Incident investigations

Mentoring

Project allocation

Performance reporting

Education

Chartership

Job description

Mott MacDonald Bentley is a design and build business combining the design expertise of Mott MacDonald with the contracting experience of JN Bentley, operating across water, energy and environment sectors throughout the UK. With an annual turnover surpassing £600 million, Mott Macdonald Bentley cements its position as a leader within the industry. The sustained, robust business performance creates an ideal environment for career growth.

As part of our appointment to Scottish Water’s new Enterprise, we will deliver projects at sites across Scotland. Works will include major upgrades to treatment assets, new and enhanced networks, and resilience schemes that will benefit communities across the country.

25+ years in the water sector

• Enhancing resilience and service reliability through treatment works upgrades, network improvements and resilience schemes
• Supporting net zero and climate adaptation via low carbon design, nature based solutions and environmental compliance projects
• Enabling sustainable growth by delivering infrastructure that supports new development and protects existing communities
• Driving efficiency and affordability through integrated delivery, innovation and collaborative planning
• Maintaining a strong focus on customers, communities and safety across everything we do

If your interest and experience lie within Health and Safety, the SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment Quality) team is for you. The team supports the entire company, including operational teams, in ensuring that Mott MacDonald Bentley work safely, avoid environmental harm, safeguard the occupational health of our employees and deliver quality projects to our clients.

As Lead SHEQ Advisor You Will

• Act as the senior contact for Client SHEQ requirements.
• Liaise with the Operations Director and Managers to ensure SHEQ support is focused on key operational areas, activities, and the appropriate staff/teams.
• Serve as the principal contact for SHEQ incidents, ensuring incident trends are communicated and investigations are appropriate and completed.
• Owner SHEQ performance measures, ensuring compliance with SHEQ Support visit frequencies, identifying high‑risk projects for enhanced support, and reporting performance metrics to Operations Directors (including poor performance for improvement and good performance for recognition such as Be‑Recognised).
• Liaise with Project Delivery Teams across design and construction, ensuring SHEQ attendance at design reviews, QES 3 readiness meetings, and CM/SM meetings.
• Provide relevant SHEQ information to the HS&E Executive.
• Support and promote the Health & Safety Strategy by monitoring and encouraging Talk Safe and Talk Green participation, collaborating with department heads to promote the I Care initiative, and engaging key suppliers to improve understanding of JNB Operational Safety Standards and I Care expectations.
• Help develop and promote the High Energy Hazard programme.
• Foster innovation within the unit SHEQ team.
• Ensure robust induction delivery.
• Support team development by reviewing training needs, development pathways, and wider opportunities.
• Support team development by reviewing training needs, development pathways, and wider opportunities.
• Authoring BMS instructions documents.

What You’ll Need

• Experience of construction practices and associated health and safety challenges.
• Achieved, or currently working towards, Chartership.
• Management experience with a proven record of effective client liaison.
• Strong organisational and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• A valid driving licence and willingness to travel to sites across your operational region.
• Experience in workflow coordination.
• Experience conducting incident investigations and completing RCA close‑outs.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Experience allocating project responsibilities.
• Competence in performance monitoring and providing performance data.
• Experience creating guidance documents.

What We Can Offer

Alongside our significant training and development investment, bespoke progression plan and support to achieve professional chartership, we offer a wide range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

To view our full range of benefits, please see the Bentley benefits brochure attached.