Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Balfour Beatty; Felixstowe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty seeks a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor for their Ground Engineering Team at the Sizewell C project. The role involves ensuring health and safety compliance, coaching teams, and conducting audits. The ideal candidate will possess a NEBOSH certificate and experience in promoting a positive HSES culture.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to influence positive safety culture.
• Experience in incident investigation.
• Knowledge of UK H&S legislation.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of Zero Harm action plans.
• Conduct inspections and audits.
• Provide health and safety expertise to teams.

Skills

HSES culture promotion

Incident investigation

Compliance with UK legislation

Continual learning

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Membership of professional body (e.g. IOSH)

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Ground Engineering Team at the Sizewell C project in Suffolk.

The Senior HSW Advisor will ensure the project is compliant with the health, safety, and wellbeing requirements - providing technical advice, guidance and support on health and safety matters.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. You'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

• Support delivery of UK and Group Zero Harm action plans
• Support, coach, monitor and mentor operational and functional teams onsite
• Carry out inspections, targeted inspections and audits as per advisor assurance plan
• Contribute to the Strategic Business Unit action plan and translate policies, standards & targets for the local sectors/ delivery units
• Carry out investigations on all incidents, including near misses and feedback any lessons learned
• Support contract teams to ensure they are compliant with all prevalent legislation and the processes and procedures outlined in the BMS
• Utilise the findings from reporting data, assessments, external and internal audits to drive action plans and inform key business decisions.
• Provide health and safety expertise to the leadership, contract, project and operational teams in order to support business decisions in line with the SBU action plan
• Liaise with the HSES and Operational leads to ensure projects are effectively resourced across all areas within the contract.
• Provide on-going expertise, support and coaching to contracts, projects and offices through regular and structured site visits and communications.
• Enable contracts, projects and offices to recognise risks and opportunities, to deliver overall health and safety obligations, improve performance, meet targets and required standards.
• Develop and coach individuals as required to build high performing teams and create a pipeline of talent
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values
• Develop own performance through the Brilliant Basics programme and other such initiatives as required
• Maintain and develop wider HSES skills and knowledge

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Ability to influence and promote a positive HSES culture
• Competence in incident investigation
• Understanding of UK policy, H&S legislation, regulatory frameworks and experience in briefing senior managers on changes in legislation or policy and how these might affect their area of work
• Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and Balfour Beatty
• Relevant H&S qualification such as NEBOSH Certificate
• Membership of professional body such as IOSH

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Experience in construction/utilities environment
• Additional relevant skills and qualifications in any technical area

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 Ground Engineering is one of the UK's leading specialist geo-technical contractors, providing innovative piling and ground improvement solutions across all sectors.

Our comprehensive ground engineering capabilities, equipment and experience provide the solid foundations for infrastructure and buildings of any height, ranging from city skyscrapers to cross-country rail and road projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]