Senior HS&E Advisor

Galliford Try Holdings plc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in Cambridge seeks a Senior HS&E Advisor to support health, safety, and environmental aspects. This role involves leading a team of HS&E Advisors, implementing HS&E strategies, and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The ideal candidate has experience in construction, strong communication skills, and a NEBOSH certification. Flexibility in working arrangements is offered, along with numerous benefits including generous holidays and corporate discounts.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Corporate discounts

Cycle to Work scheme

Comprehensive pension plan

Private medical options

Paid professional membership

Qualifications

• Relevant HS&E experience within construction or infrastructure.
• Experience in leading a team and delivering training.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence.

Responsibilities

• Support the HS&E Manager with health, safety, and environment aspects.
• Lead recruitment and management of the HS&E team.
• Ensure compliance with HS&E standards and management systems.

Skills

HS&E experience within construction

Team leadership

Knowledge of HS&E management systems

Excellent communication

Training delivery

Organised and analytical

Education

NEBOSH Construction or General Certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Job Description

Job Title: Senior HS&E Advisor

Can be Based From: Cambridge

Division: Environment (Water)

About Us

Galliford Try is one of the UK's most formidable construction businesses with an enviable track record of delivering schemes that strive to provide positive, lasting change for the communities we work in. As one of the UK's leading principal contractors, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

Our Environment Division

Our Environment Business provides 'source to sea' asset delivery capability across the UK and Scotland working on both Frameworks and Standalone projects. Since AMP3 we have delivered more than £2bn assets for clients such as Severn Trent, Yorkshire Water, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Thames Water, Southern Water, Welsh Water and Scottish Water.

As an established player in the market, this is a great opportunity to join the team at a time of transformation as we shape ourselves to be fit for delivery in a future digital world.

Purpose of the Role

As Senior HS&E Advisor, you will support the Framework HS&E Manager on all health, safety and environmental aspects by leading a team of HS&E Advisors to deliver a first-class service to our clients. You will support and implement the HS&E strategy and systems to ensure that the delivery of our operations meets exemplary safety, health and environmental standards.

This role supports improvement and consistency in performance, ensuring compliance with management systems, and implementing continual improvement initiatives across the framework.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and support the HS&E Advisors ensuring active engagement in their framework and delivery teams
• Support the implementation of the HS&E strategy ensuring consistency across all projects
• Promote and embed the behavioural programme "Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behaviours"
• Ensure the Business Management System is correctly implemented in line with client and business requirements
• Provide specialist technical guidance to line management and site teams
• Act as a point of engagement with internal and external stakeholders, including clients, regulators and supply chain partners
• Provide HS&E input from planning stage through to project completion
• Review performance using HS&E KPIs and drive improvement actions
• Support incident investigations and ensure corrective actions are implemented
• Produce monthly HS&E performance reports
• Support development reviews and training plans for HS&E Advisors
• Escalate significant HS&E issues to the Framework HS&E Manager

About You

• Relevant HS&E experience within construction, infrastructure, or a regulated environment
• Previous team leadership or supervisory experience
• Strong knowledge of HS&E management systems, legislation and risk management
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels
• Experience in delivering training and behavioural improvement initiatives
• Organised, analytical and able to work in complex operational environments
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across sites

Essential

• NEBOSH Construction or General Certificate
• Supervisory experience within HS&E
• Competent with Microsoft Office

Desirable

• Membership of IOSH or IIRSM
• CMIOHS or working towards
• ISO 45001 audit experience

What We Can Offer in Return

With an impressive order book of over £3.9 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people through our 'Be Well' programme. We also invest heavily in development through leadership frameworks, apprenticeship programmes and professional training pathways.

Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy more
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Save As You Earn share schemes
• Private medical options and 24/7 EAP support
• Paid professional membership

Additional Information

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage applicants to tell us about any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Don't meet every requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway - you may be the right candidate for this or another role.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for candidates with a long-term health condition or disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.

A full job description is available upon request.

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