Regional Health And Safety Advisor

LER (SG) Ltd; Ringway; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading civil engineering company is seeking a Regional Health and Safety Advisor for the North West region, based mainly from home. The role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, delivering training, and conducting inspections. Candidates should have a NEBOSH diploma and relevant experience. The position offers a competitive salary, hybrid working options, and an extensive benefits package including a company car allowance, enhanced annual leave, and support for health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Company car allowance

Enhanced annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Pension plan with employer contribution

Optional BUPA health scheme

Company sick pay

Enhanced Paid Family Leave

Onsite gym

Virtual GP access 24/7

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental health support

Savings scheme

Recognition awards

Qualifications

• The candidate must possess a NEBOSH diploma or equivalent.
• Experience in construction, civil engineering, or water sectors is required.
• Strong communication and decision-making skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate compliance with health and safety legislation.
• Produce and update safety policies and documentation.
• Conduct workplace inspections and internal audits.
• Deliver health and safety training sessions when needed.
• Monitor safety performance and provide updates to management.

Skills

Communication skills

Time management

Negotiation skills

IT skills (Excel & databases)

Education

NEBOSH diploma or equivalent in Health & Safety

Job description

Regional Health and Safety Advisor

Salary: £55k plus £6k company car allowance

Location: Head office Preston, covering the North West (Home based)

A large, Civil Engineering Company are now looking to recruit a Regional Health and Safety Advisor to join their team.

Ideally you will come from a Construction, Civil Engineering, Utilities Clean/Waste Water background. As this is a regional NW role, travel is expected within the North West such as Manchester, Liverpool and North Wales.

Regional Health and Safety Advisor - The Role

We are looking to recruit an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to cover the North West region. You will facilitate the delivery of a managed process for ensuring that our client is fully compliant with all H&S legislation, industry standards and corporate requirements to provide a safe and healthy working environment for our staff. You will be responsible for the provision of suitable and current advice, guidance and monitoring concerning health and safety practices and standards. Facilitate good communication on health and safety matters between the group sites, plan and deliver agreed programmes of work.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional, technical, practical and competent health, safety and wellbeing advice, guidance and support as required.
• Produce written health, safety and wellbeing policies, processes, advice, and guidance documentation and update them following any changes, in-line with the document control process, and ensure they align to legal and other requirements, and our policy commitments.
• Undertake a schedule of programmed workplace inspections to support our active monitoring processes in compliance with ISO45001:2018.
• Produce and undertake internal audits as part of our audit process in compliance with ISO 45001:2018.
• When instructed develop and deliver health and safety training sessions.
• Advise managers on health and safety training needs and competence requirements.
• Support the management in the recording of work-related accidents and incidents for workers (employees and non-employees) and, where necessary, report them to the relevant enforcing authority.
• On occasions it may be decided that the H&S Advisor should take the lead with investigations.
• Monitor the health and safety performance indicators and provide updates to the Board of Trustees (BoT), the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Managers as relevant.
• Use executive powers (on behalf of the Group MD, the BoT and the SLT) to stop any work activities where there is any risk of serious or imminent injury.
• Actively support and reference appropriate health and safety management standards or processes to ensure Group activities always acts within the law.

About You

The ideal candidate must hold an appropriate qualification/s within Health & Safety, e.g. NEBOSH diploma.

Proven sector experience such as construction, civils, water and possibly facilities management.

You will have a high level of communication & negotiation skills with the ability to motivate & influence others.

Excellent time management, organisational & decision making skills are essential along with good knowledge of IT skills including Excel & databases.

Benefits

In return our client offers offer

Competitive Salary

Company Car / car allowance scheme - 100% hybrid and electric vehicles

Enhanced annual leave starting at 26 Days + bank holidays rising with service

Learning and development - we offer a range of learning opportunities to develop talent at all levels within our business focussing on technical competence, upskilling, compliance and governance and career development.

Pension — 6.5% employer contribution of your salary into your pension to help you save for the future

BUPA - optional scheme and can include your family to the scheme (50% contribution)

Company sick pay scheme - Up to 20 days full pay in a rolling 12 month period

Group Income Protection - 50% of your salary covered for 3 years for long term illness

Enhanced Paid Family Leave - maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, compassion, bereavement, crisis, emergency dependants, and much more

Hybrid working - manage your own diary, working in the office, at home or out with clients

Onsite gym - we have a gym on site at Head Office which is free to use

Company Doctor - for when you can't get to see your own or if you have any health concerns

Virtual GP - 24/7 access for when you need to speak to a GP

EAP - Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured, supporting you and your family with advice, guidance and counselling on a variety of areas such as health, fitness, home life, finances and much more.

Mental Health support - through the Thrive app, approved by the NHS, provides tools, to tackle, prevent and manage common stressors such as sleep, bereavement, work issues etc. Also provides relaxation, breathing and meditation techniques and measures impact.

Savings scheme - Put aside an affordable amount for a rainy day in the future

Recognition awards - awards for long service and special birthdays

A comprehensive health and wellbeing strategy focussed on physical, emotional, financial and career wellbeing