Senior Health & Safety Advisor

COWI; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working conditions

Professional development opportunities

Private health care

Job summary

COWI is seeking a Senior Health & Safety Advisor (Principal Designer) to lead safety across infrastructure and energy projects in the UK. You will act as Principal Designer, guide design and site teams, and ensure compliance with health, safety and wellbeing standards.

The role requires a Chartered Health & Safety professional or progress toward chartership, NEBOSH Diploma or degree in OHS, and proven PD experience. The position supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements within the UK.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience undertaking Principal Designer (PD) on projects.
• Proven HSE leadership across engineering/infrastructure teams.
• Knowledge of national H&S legislation and safety management systems.
• Chartered safety professional or working towards chartership.

Responsibilities

• Providing safety leadership and Principal Designer support on infrastructure and energy projects.
• Collaborating with project teams and JV partners to deliver HSW requirements.
• Monitoring compliance with H&S legislation and client standards.
• Delivering H&S training to project staff to ensure understanding of regulations and processes.
• Advising design and site teams on planning, coordination and monitoring of work.
• Leading audits, investigations and lessons learnt to improve procedures.

Skills

PD experience

HSE leadership

Stakeholder influence

Regulatory knowledge

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Degree in OHS

Tools

HAZID/HAZOP

Job description

Senior Health & Safety Advisor (Principal Designer)

Do you want to be part of a business that supports Clients to create a safer project? Are you a Chartered Health & Safety professional or working towards chartership? Can you provide CDM guidance and support to multi-discipline project teams, in particular, have you undertaken the Principal Designer role? Then, join us to shape a safe and sustainable world.

Glasgow / Derby / Bristol / London / York

Permanent

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To support growth within our business through recent project wins, we are looking for a Senior Health & Safety Advisor to join us. Working on a range of Infrastructure and Energy projects, you’ll provide safety leadership and undertake the role of Principal Designer on projects.

On a day-to-day basis, you'll be responsible for:

• Collaborating with our project team and JV partners to support delivery of Health, Safety & Wellbeing requirements across the project
• Supporting the role of Principal Designer on our projects
• Working with our H&S team to support HSW across the wider business
• Undertaking monitoring of project activity for compliance with H&S legislation, client standards and management systems and procedures and raise concerns to the appropriate level as required
• Delivering Health & Safety training to project staff as required, to ensure sound understanding of the principles, regulations and relevant COWI UK processes
• Providing support and guidance to the design and onsite teams for them to plan, coordinate and monitor site project work, considering the principles of prevention
• Implementing actions to transform our approach to HSW through the full project & infrastructure lifecycle
• Supporting our project and office locations– HSE Planning, Risk Assessment and Safe Systems of Work
• Supporting the review and assessment of competency (skills, knowledge, experience and organisational capability) of external designers, consultants and contractors being considered for appointment on the project, as appropriate
• Participating in accident/incident investigations on site and brief lessons learnt.
• Reporting findings to the COWI UK Senior Leadership Team where concerns arise or where improvements should be made to current procedures to improve HSW
• Undertaking site audits and inspections.
• Promoting best practice in all elements of Health, Safety & Wellbeing both internally and externally

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Extensive experience of undertaking the Principal Designer Role (PD) on a project
• Demonstrable experience of working within a HSE team, in Engineering/Wind/Water/Transmission
• The knowledge to facilitate HAZID/HAZOP workshops.
• A relevant qualification, such as NEBOSH Diploma or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety
• HSE Chartership or as a minimum have a Cert. IOSH level or similar accreditation and be working towards full chartership.
• Sound knowledge of national H&S legislation
• The ability to influence teams to adopt the highest Health, Safety & Wellbeing standards
• A clear understanding of how health and safety is monitored through the design process to construction, maintenance, end use and demolition.
• Experience of the audit process and have an ability to identify and express areas of concern
• The ability to demonstrate management and coordination skills to motivate and influence internal and external teams

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarilylocatedin the Nordic region, the UK, NorthAmericaand India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring theirexpertisein engineering, architecture,energyand environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance

[e-mail] . Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer

COWIprovidesequal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin,ageor disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring,placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.