Senior Health Safety & Environment Advisor (4023)

Laing O'Rourke; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic joint venture delivering one of the UK's largest projects! This role offers an exciting opportunity for a senior health and safety professional to make a significant impact on site safety at Hinkley Point C. You will be instrumental in guiding project teams, mentoring HSE advisers, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. With a focus on continuous improvement and innovative practices, this position is perfect for those who thrive in a challenging environment. Enjoy competitive salaries, private medical insurance, and a supportive workplace that values diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Company Pension Scheme

Annual Holiday Allowance

Company Car or Car Allowance

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of relevant experience in health and safety within construction.
• Understanding of HS&E legislation and ability to interpret it.

Responsibilities

• Support the Health & Safety Manager in ensuring compliance with regulations.
• Conduct inspections and audits to ensure safety standards are met.
• Mentor and coach project teams on health and safety matters.

Skills

Health & Safety Management

Coaching

Risk Assessment

Construction Industry Experience

Compliance Monitoring

Investigation Skills

Education

IOSH Managing Safely in Construction

NEBOSH Construction or General Certificate

Membership of Professional Body (e.g., IOSH)

Job description

Are you a senior health safety professional looking to work on bigger and better projects? Would you like to be part of the team delivering one of the biggest projects in the UK?

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 them 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.