SHEQ Advisor

MGroup Water; Purfleet-on-Thames; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services provider in Purfleet-on-Thames is seeking a SHEQ Advisor to ensure health, safety, environmental, and quality standards across operations. This role involves fieldwork, compliance monitoring, conducting inspections, and preparing reports. The ideal candidate will have a NEBOSH certificate, valid safety certifications, and a comprehensive understanding of UK health and safety legislation. Attractive benefits include a matched pension scheme, private health care, and more.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Have a NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate.
• Hold valid certifications such as CSCS Card and EUSR SHEA Gas/Power.
• Comprehensive understanding of UK health and safety legislation.
• Knowledge of the water industry and underground utility services.
• Can deliver effective training sessions and safety briefings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with safety and quality standards on-site.
• Conduct regular inspections and reviews of risk assessments.
• Lead accident prevention initiatives and drug testing requirements.
• Compile and submit KPI reports and analysis for performance.
• Conduct inductions emphasizing safety procedures for new team members.

Skills

NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate

Valid CSCS Card

Knowledge of UK health and safety legislation

Knowledge of the water industry

Ability to deliver training sessions

Job description

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We're problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers.

What will you be doing?

As our SHEQ Advisor you'll be a key member of our team working on multiple contracts located out of Dartford. You'll work with our operational teams to ensure the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of works across the Thames Water Retail contracts. Your role will be integral to our commitment to maintaining high safety, health, environmental, and quality standards while fostering a proactive safety culture.

You will be predominantly field‑based, with 75% of the time spent on‑site providing direct assistance to operations. The remaining 25% will involve administrative tasks. You'll be preparing reports, reviewing documentation, and coordinating with the team. These tasks can be performed at an office or, with prior approval, remotely.

You’ll lead regular inspections of work sites to ensure activities are executed with robust and sufficient safe systems of work. You’ll prepare and submit detailed site inspection reports promptly. Review and approve risk assessments and method statements (RAMS). Ensure compliance with minimum safety and operational standards established by M Group Water. You'll offer hands‑on guidance and advice to site operatives and supervisors on best practices and safety improvements.

You’ll conduct thorough investigations of incidents and accidents to identify root causes, contributing factors, and opportunities for improvement. Compile comprehensive reports with actionable recommendations to prevent recurrence. Report incidents in line with M Group Water and client protocols, ensuring adherence to all statutory requirements.

You’ll need to compile and submit monthly Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports within agreed deadlines, analyse trends and highlight areas for attention. You’ll assist the SHEQ Manager in maintaining accurate records and ensuring compliance with organisational and client requirements.

You’ll be responsible for delivering project inductions for new team members, emphasizing safety procedures and company policies. Assist operational teams in all SHEQ communications.

You need to lead on accident prevention initiatives and monitor adherence to M Group Water management systems and client service management standards. Facilitate random and post‑incident drug and alcohol testing, ensuring compliance with regulatory and client requirements. Collaborate with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and participate in external audits and inspections as required.

You will foster a culture of proactive safety reporting and continuous improvement by encouraging the reporting of near misses. Act as a visible safety advocate, engaging with site teams to reinforce the importance of health, safety, environmental, and quality standards. Proactively monitor the assurance of quality compliance to ensure that any competency requirements are identified.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have a NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate?
• Do you hold valid certifications, such as Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Card, EUSR SHEA Gas/Power, and/or EUSR Water Hygiene?
• Have you gained comprehensive understanding of UK health and safety legislation, best practices, and environmental regulations?
• Do you have knowledge of the water industry, including temporary works, street works, and underground utility services?
• Are you familiar with occupational health risk environments, such as utility service avoidance?
• Can you deliver engaging and effective training sessions, toolbox talks, and safety briefings?
• Support the Operational and SHEQ Teams following investigations that may have highlighted an assurance check on a part of the business where the competency minimum standards have fallen below expectations. Assist with a plan to raise the levels back to the required standard for M Group Water Services and Thames Water.

What's in it for you?

• Matched pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care for you
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eye care and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Personal Accident Cover

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.

We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.

We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life. Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:

Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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