Senior HS&E Advisor

Galliford Try; Hampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national construction firm is seeking a Senior Health, Safety and Environment Advisor to lead HS&E initiatives, ensuring compliance and delivering training programs. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and extensive knowledge of safety regulations. This position is based in the Thames Water region and offers flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Corporate discounts

Cycle to work schemes

Comprehensive pension plan

Private medical scheme options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading teams and advising on HS&E issues.
• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Ability to conduct audits and trainings.

Responsibilities

• Support the HS&E strategy and ensure compliance.
• Lead and mentor the team of HS&E Advisors.
• Conduct site safety audits and provide technical guidance.

Skills

Leadership

Health and Safety Compliance

Environmental Awareness

Education

Relevant degree or certification in Health and Safety

Job description

Title : Senior Health, Safety and Environment Advisor

Location : London & surrounding areas (Thames Water region)

Sector : Water

Our Business

Our Environment Business provides ‘source to sea’ asset delivery capability across the UK and Scotland working on both Frameworks and Standalone projects. Since AMP we have delivered more than £bn 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 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 client(s). 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.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the implementation of our HS&E strategy ensuring this is also embedded within the HS&E Advisors actions to drive continual improvement through the business addressing short-, medium-, and long-term growth and learning.
• Lead the HS&E Advisors, ensuring that they are actively engaged within their framework and are contributing to the successful delivery of projects by providing a professional advice and direction.
• Actively support the HS&E Advisors to ensure the promotion of our behavioural programme; ‘Challenging Beliefs, Affecting Behaviours’, so that it is consistent with our business leadership ambitions.
• Ensure our Business Management System has been correctly implemented, taking account of client requirements, to align with our overall strategy and driving performance through our processes and standards.
• Support the HS&E Advisors to provide technical and specialist guidance to line and site management in the implementation of HS&S programmes and initiatives.

Key Outputs

• Supports directly or ensures that sufficient HS&E support is made available to operational staff for the review of project documentation such as Construction Phase Plans, Emergency Response Plans, high-risk method statements and risk assessments, etc.
• Ensures a programme of HS&E monitor, audit, and review by the HS&E Advisors is conducted at our workplaces on a regular basis. The programme shall include specific trends where necessary. Ensures that the quality of those inspections is maintained to a high standard.
• Conducts site safety and environmental audits and undertakes ISO audits to ensure compliance with our management systems. Ensures necessary outputs are recorded within our systems and advises management as appropriate to ensure timely actions management.
• Assists in the onboarding and management review of our supply chain partners applicable to project or business scope where necessary.
• Supports our learning and development programme by preparing and delivering training and awareness sessions, instructions, best practice guidance, codes of practice, environmental information, etc. to our operational and leadership teams, our clients and at industry events as required.
• Support the HS&E Advisors or lead incident investigations to identify root causes and recommendations to prevent recurrence. Monitor and manage incident reports within the designated timescale and manage close out within the approved system. Review the quality of incident reports and where necessary provide support to improve.

Our benefits

We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free / support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About us

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact

Additional Information

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

We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.”

A full job description for this role is available upon request.