Senior HSW Advisor

Bouygues Construction; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is looking for a Senior HSW Advisor to ensure health, safety, and wellbeing standards during the construction of a major energy project in Ipswich. This role involves conducting compliance inspections, implementing HSW strategies, and supporting operational teams to promote a positive safety culture. The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, NEBOSH certification, and experience in major infrastructure projects. This is a full-time, hybrid position with occasional travel required.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to use HSW data for reporting and analysis.
• Previous experience as a Health and Safety Advisor in major infrastructure projects.
• Solid grasp of UK Health & Safety legislation and incident investigation.

Responsibilities

• Implement and communicate the HSW strategy.
• Conduct Health and Safety compliance inspections and audits.
• Support project teams in risk evaluation during work planning.
• Ensure compliance with project standards and Safety Management System.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to influence positive HSW culture

Competence in accident and incident investigation

Proven ability to use HSW data

Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) competence

Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Education

NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate

NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Equivalent

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Job Description

Senior HSW Advisor

Job Location City: Ipswich

Country/Region: United Kingdom

Contract Type: Permanent Contract

Full/Part Time: Full Time

Remote/Onsite: Hybrid

Travel Requirements: Occasional travel

Requisition ID: 1910
Information at a Glance

The Civil Works Alliance

This is a role that offers you the chance to help shape the UK's energy future as part of the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), supporting the construction of Sizewell C. This 3.2-gigawatt power station will generate low‑carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, playing a vital role in delivering clean, reliable power for at least 60 years.

We are seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor who will support our Duty Manager, Lead, and operational teams to deliver and maintain the highest standards of HSW on‑site during the critical weekend period. This role is essential for ensuring that our project and CWA HSW goals are met and that all legal and regulatory obligations are fully complied with. You'll work Friday to Monday each week, guaranteeing robust oversight and a seamless handover at both ends of the weekend.

In this role, you will:

• Communicate and implement the HSW strategy.
• Build solid relationships with stakeholders and can deliver on customer strategic and tactical requirements.
• Undertake Health and Safety compliance inspections, tours and audits to satisfy the monthly HSW Assurance Plan, the HSW Manager, or as requested by the CWA in response to emerging risks specifically across weekend working.
• Able to identify and rank risk associated with CWA work activities.
• Able to prepare fact driven reports following inspections, tours, audits and investigations.
• Support the implementation of and ensure compliance with the Sizewell C (SZC) project standards and the CWA Safety Management System (SMS).
• Able to build relationships with the CWA project teams and wider interested stakeholders.
• Support project teams during work planning to evaluate and address potential risks.
• Trained to CWA standard for Investigating Incidents (Principal Incident Investigators HFAC's Training).
• Able to respond to and support / deal effectively with emerging events.
• Able to coordinate and share relevant information required to compile the appropriate reports when an event has occurred.
• Can plan and undertake witness accounts / statements.
• Able to feed information into the Project and Parent Company Reporting Systems.
• Understands the CWA and Project Event Reporting Procedural requirements.
• Ensure that lessons learned from monitoring, events and or from the Alliance parent companies are communicated and adopted by the project teams.
• Able to support or deliver training and advisory sessions to operational teams and Tier 2 contractors including: Setting to Work, Fact Finders (including Just / Fair Culture), Occupational Health (OH) and CWA SMS Familiarisation.
• Support the review and updating of relevant project HSW documentation.
• Support operational teams to deliver Zero Harm and the Zero Harm Events Calendar.
• Promote the use of the project and CWA reporting tools ensuring that actions are taken, and feedback delivered.
• Ability to communicate and promote a positive Health & Safety culture
• Undertake reviews of relevant safety documentation, e.g. work package plans / task briefings
• Able to motivate, coach and support the CWA Project Management teams to deliver the HSW project requirements.
• Supports the implementation of the Nuclear Safety message during engagements with the whole CWA team.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to influence positive HSW culture and provide constructive feedback across all levels
• Competence in accident and incident investigation, with a solid grasp of UK Health & Safety legislation
• Proven ability to use HSW data for robust reporting and analysis
• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) competence
• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety, with minimum Grad IOSH status (or working towards)
• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Equivalent
• Previous experience as a Health and Safety Advisor within major infrastructure or transferable sectors
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

If you are passionate about making a real impact in one of the UK's most important infrastructure projects and thrive on collaborative, please apply now.