SHE Advisor

Kier Group; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure firm seeks a Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Advisor to ensure compliance with safety standards across Shropshire. Located at Longden Road in Shrewsbury, this role offers a salary of £37,000 - £47,000 per year plus benefits, including a car allowance. The ideal candidate will have experience managing safety on large construction sites and demonstrate excellent leadership skills. Join us in supporting significant highway maintenance projects and making a difference.

Benefits

£5.9k annual car allowance

Private healthcare

Diverse and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing SHE on large construction sites.
• Ability to demonstrate raised safety standards.
• Experience implementing traffic management and temporary works.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with SHE standards across Shropshire.
• Lead meetings with operational staff and supply chain partners.
• Maintain ISO 45001 and 14001 accreditations.
• Conduct Health and Safety inspections.

Skills

Operational experience managing SHE

Traffic and pedestrian management

Implementing safety standards

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Advisor to join our Shropshire contract, based in Longden Road, Shrewsbury. This role spans the entire county, with time spent across three depots, your primary base will be Longdon Road in Shrewsbury. You will be a strong leader with excellent communication skills and extensive operational experience within highways, utilities, or construction.

As part of our team, you'll support the delivery of comprehensive highway infrastructure maintenance for Local Authority and National Highways clients.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

Location

Longden Road, Shrewsbury – site based 5 days per week

Hours

Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Salary

£37,000 - £47,000 per year + £5.9k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

Note

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Responsibilities

As a SHE Advisor, you'll ensure a consistent approach to safety, health, and environmental standards across Shropshire. Working closely with local teams and supply chain partners, you'll drive the implementation of the SHE strategy and guarantee full compliance with legal requirements, client expectations, and Kier Group's Safety, Health & Environmental Management System (SHEMS).

Your day to day will include:

• Leading and participating in regular meetings with operational staff, supply chain partners, clients, and the contract management team
• Maintain and manage the companies ISO 45001 and 14001 accreditations
• Ensure premises meet legal / regulatory and Kier requirements
• Collate and disseminate data on Safety, Health, and Environment performance for contribution to monthly, contract and other reporting requirements
• Undertake Site, Depot and Office Health and Safety Inspections

Qualifications

This role of SHE Advisor is great if you:

• Have operational working experience of managing SHE on large construction sites and highways reactive maintenance contracts
• Proven experience implementing traffic and pedestrian management, temporary works, excavations, working around rail property
• Can demonstrate you have raised standards

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.