Senior Health & Safety Advisor

COWI; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Private health care

Flexible and hybrid working

Group personal pension

Life assurance

Professional development plans and two

Job summary

COWI is looking for a Senior Health & Safety Advisor to provide safety leadership and undertake the Principal Designer role on a range of Infrastructure and Energy projects. Based in the UK, you will collaborate with project teams and JV partners to deliver Health, Safety & Wellbeing requirements.

You will bring extensive PD experience, a HSE background, and the ability to influence across design and construction teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of undertaking the Principal Designer role on a project.
• Experience working within an HSE team in engineering sectors such as wind, water or transmission.
• Ability to facilitate HAZID/HAZOP workshops.
• Relevant qualification in HSE (NEBOSH Diploma or OH&S Degree).
• The ability to influence teams to adopt high Health, Safety & Wellbeing standards.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project teams and partners to support Health, Safety & Wellbeing requirements.
• Support the Principal Designer role on projects.
• Work with HSE teams to improve HSW across the business.
• Monitor activity for compliance with safety legislation and standards.
• Deliver safety training to project staff on principles and processes.
• Guide design and onsite teams to plan and monitor site work with prevention in mind.
• Contribute to transforming HSW approaches through lifecycle stages.
• Assist with HSE Planning, Risk Assessment and Safe Systems of Work.
• Participate in competency assessments of external designers, consultants and contractors.
• Support incident investigations and share lessons learned.
• Report findings to UK Senior Leadership for improvements.

Skills

Principal Designer role

HSE team experience

HAZID/HAZOP workshops

National H&S legislation knowledge

Influence teams to adopt high safety

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety

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.