Marine HSW Advisor

Civil Works Alliance; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading salaries

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Civil Works Alliance is seeking a Marine HSW Advisor to support Sizewell C in the Marine and Tunnels Section. The role emphasizes promoting a positive HSW culture, conducting investigations, planning safety activities, and ensuring regulatory compliance across design to field execution.

You will deliver training, support contractors, and contribute to continuous improvement through safety leadership and lessons learned from incidents and audits.

Qualifications

• Experience in incident and accident investigations.
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety regulatory framework.
• Ability to prepare formal reports on HSW topics.
• Experience in project planning and working to budgets.
• Commitment to continual learning and value delivery.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and provide HSW input from design through implementation.
• Undertake planned inspections and pre-work site inspections.
• Prepare written reports after site visits, audits, or investigations.
• Review project documentation and ensure BMS compliance and learning.
• Deliver HSES coaching and mentoring to teams and contractors.

Skills

HSW culture

Incident investigation

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory awareness

Project planning

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

IOSH membership (grad)

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Help Shape the UK’s Energy Future

Marine HSW Advisor Opportunity with the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), Supporting Sizewell C

As part of the CWA (Civil Works Alliance), you will support the building of Sizewell C. Sizewell C will be a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low‑carbon electricity for around 6 million homes and will play a key role in our energy future, supplying reliable, clean electricity for at least 60 years. This role will be within the Marine and Tunnels Section.

What will you do?

• To monitor and provide HSW input, from design through to implementation and support the broader HSW agenda as required and ensuring governance, compliance and legal obligations are met.
• Undertake planned project inspections / tours as per Frequency Matrix.
• Deliver pre-work site inspections to evaluate and address potential risks at planning stages.
• Review, track and trend unplanned events and support project / site management in their completion of investigations.
• Support local management in their liaison with clients and contractors by attending meetings and other events such as working groups.
• Prepare written reports following all site visits, inspections, audits and investigations.
• Review and update Project documentation.
• Ensure compliance to the BMS as well as testing the effectiveness of its various components in controlling risk and delivering continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance to the business emergency planning.
• Monitor emerging, new and revised legislation to assess its impact on the business.
• Ensure that lessons learned from monitoring/incidents are communicated and adopted.
• Deliver training and advisory sessions to personnel and contractors in conjunction with HR teams.
• Setting to Work.
• Fact Finders (including Just / Fair Culture).
• Occupational Health (OH).
• Plant & Vehicle Marshal (PVM).
• BMS Familiarisation.
• Support the delivery of the Behavioural (Make Safety Personal – MSP) Programme.
• Share learning across projects and business streams.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and the Zero Harm Events Calendar.
• Support the projects to ensure safety leadership teams (SLT) are engaged.
• Promote the reporting of Close Calls throughout the business ensuring that actions are taken and feedback delivered.
• Deliver Safety Cascades informing projects of relevant safety alerts, fast facts and lessons learnt.
• Promote telematics and safe driving behaviours.
• Assist the projects to deliver effective planning stages through compliance and reliability.
• Be able to plan and monitor performance on SMART Objectives.
• Ability to communicate and promote a positive Health & Safety Culture.
• Able to demonstrate a proactive approach and ability to implement best practices.
• Assist in maintaining the companies Safety management system –iSMS.
• Ensure effective communication of essential safety documents, e.g. safety alerts / bulletins.
• Undertake reviews of relevant safety documentation, e.g. work package plans / task briefings.
• Deliver site inductions.
• Undertake Q/A themed audits.
• Support in machinery and workplace risk assessments.
• Gather evidence to support investigation process and its reports, including the interviewing witnesses and gathering of statements.
• Deliver HSES coaching and mentoring to core and project teams.

What are we looking for?

Essential

• Ability to influence and promote a positive HSW Culture.
• Competence in incident & accident investigation.
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework & UK Business Management System.
• Ability to prepare formal written reports and publications on HSW topics.
• Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets.
• Demonstrate commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and CWA.
• Broad experience of complex construction and civils projects.
• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) competence.
• Ability to engage and converse at all levels.
• Strong understanding and experience of the construction and civil engineering process, including constraints and requirements of specialist heavy‑civils operations (e.g. lifting operations, working at height, excavations, temporary works etc).

Desirable

• NEBOSH National Diploma, NCRQ Diploma in Applied Health and Safety or equivalent Level 6 qualification.
• Good knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Graduate Member of IOSH, CMIOSH or working towards.
• Offshore experience.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.

What we will offer you?

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke - which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.

• market leading salaries
• generous annual leave entitlements
• pension scheme
• other flexible benefits

About Us

The CWA celebrates the creativity and innovation that comes from a diverse workforce, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds — especially those from under‑represented communities. Our project is built on five core values: Humility, Positivity, Respect, Solidarity, and Clarity.

By joining us, you’ll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work, speak up, and share your ideas. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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