Senior Health Safety & Environment Advisor

Laing O'Rourke; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in construction is seeking a Senior Health Safety & Environment Advisor to support project teams at Hinkley Point C. The role involves coaching, compliance monitoring, and ensuring adherence to health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience in the construction industry and recognized qualifications. This position offers competitive salaries and additional benefits, ensuring a supportive work environment focused on safety and compliance.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Company Pension Schemes

Annual Holiday Allowance

Company Car or Car Allowance

Qualifications

• 3-4 years relevant experience in the Construction Industry.
• Experience with HS&E legislation and its application.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support project teams on HS&E matters.
• Conduct inspections and audits for compliance.
• Produce comprehensive reports on investigations.

Skills

Coaching

Risk Assessment

Compliance Monitoring

Investigation

Environmental Knowledge

Education

IOSH Managing Safely in Construction

NEBOSH Construction Certificate

Member of Professional Body (Tech IOSH)

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Senior Health and Safety Advisor

Organisation Information

Bouygues Travaux Publics (TP) and Laing O'Rourke, two of Europe's most dynamic engineering and construction specialists, are working together in a joint venture named BYLOR to deliver the main civil engineering works at Hinkley Point C (HPC) worth over £2.8 billion.

Purpose Of The Role

To support the Health & Safety Manager to ensure the project teams are following health & safety regulations, legislation and policies and minimising occupational risk on site. Bylor requires all HS&E professionals to focus on being challenging and curious, actively involved in hosting, coaching, mentoring and engagement. “We are not looking at doing different things but doing things differently”.

Key Responsibilities And Specific Accountabilities

• Able to guide and support their allocated project/establishment by giving robust HS&E advice and able to coach in HS&E matters.
• Able to deputise for the HSE Manager when required to do so.
• Able to mentor HSE Advisers.
• Able to transfer between Bylor work areas if required to do so.
• Ensuring that the HPC Project Values are understood and complied with.
• Has the aptitude to identify hazards or deficiencies, ability to rate and rank risk to enable effective evaluation and communication of any required actions.
• Has experience of conducting inspections and audits of projects, establishments and offices, and ensuring these are undertaken in compliance with the compliance monitoring programme.
• Able to carry out investigations and produce thorough and comprehensive reports that address the underlying issues and not just the end result (i.e. the injury / damage).
• Monitors compliance ensures projects are implementing the relevant parts of the BYLOR Safety Management Systems (SMS) and identifies corrective action where required.

Essential Skills & Knowledge

• Able to coach the project team in key HSE project risks.
• Understands the benefits of using the “behavioural” tools as a part of a continuous improvement cycle.
• Must have relevant experience in the Construction Industry.
• Has a good understanding of relevant HS&E legislation and is able to interpret the requirements of this legislation as applicable to the Project activities.
• Has at least 3 – 4 years' relevant experience with industry recognised qualifications.
• Has sufficient environmental knowledge to be able to support the BYLOR environmental agenda.

Education & Qualifications

• IOSH Managing Safely in Construction or SMSTS.
• NEBOSH Construction or General Certificate as a minimum.
• Member of Professional Body eg. IOSH at Tech IOSH minimum.

Additional Information

All positions with Bylor are employed directly with either Laing O'Rourke or Bouygues Travaux Public and include competitive salaries, private medical insurance, company pension schemes, annual holiday allowance and company car/ or car allowance.

Unless stated otherwise all positions are based at Hinkley Point C in Somerset.

Somerset boasts beautiful English countryside, an attractive coastline, interesting towns and villages along with easy access to the M5 and within proximity to the cities of Bristol and Exeter.

Bylor are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and promote greater equality, diversity and inclusion in our workplace.