Marine HSW Advisor - Sizewell C - Lowestoft

Balfour Beatty plc

Lowestoft

On-site

GBP 55,000 - 85,000

Full time

23 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Smart working
25 days annual leave (pro rata)
Family friendly policies (maternity/ad
Pension & share plan

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a proactive HSW professional to monitor and influence health, safety and wellbeing across Sizewell C’s construction programme, from design through to handover.

You will review project documentation, lead investigations, deliver training with HR, and promote a zero-harm culture while ensuring governance and regulatory compliance.

A NEBOSH General Certificate and CSCS competence, plus experience in complex civils projects, are essential.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Skills

Influence & promote HSW culture
Incident & accident investigation
UK Health & Safety regulation
Formal written reports
Project planning & budgeting
Continual learning
Complex construction & civils projects
CSCS competence
Stakeholder engagement
Heavy civils operations knowledge

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Tools

Word
Excel
PowerPoint

Job description

About The Role

The shareholders will fund SZC up until Financial Close through equity in line with the approved schedule. and budget. SZC’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure (including activities relating to hydrogen, direct air capture and/or desalination) at Sizewell C in Suffolk. The principal objectives of the current development phase of the SZC project are to agree and implement the Capital Raise Plan, including completing an equity and debt raise, agree the core supply chain contracts and obtain the regulatory permits and licences required for the construction phase of the Project (including the core environmental permits and nuclear site licence). Prior to the government investment decision SZC operated as part of EDF in the Nuclear Development business unit and was staffed by EDF colleagues and independent contractors who are now in the process of transferring to the direct employment of SZC. It is setting itself up as an organisation capable of delivering a new nuclear power plant, from investment case and funding, to construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and decommissioning. The SZC construction programme has a technical and commercial business case predicated on technical replication of Hinkley Point C. EDF will be an important supplier of nuclear capability for the SZC Programme from its established nuclear business footprint in the UK. Key stakeholders are: UK Government, relevant Government departments and agencies including Treasury BEIS, EDF, Financial investors and institutions, Regulators, Alliance partners and local communities.

What you'll be doing

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.

  • 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.
Who we're 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.
Essential Qualifications & Experience

NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

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 Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high-speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities. From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more…

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com

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