Graduate Health & Safety Advisor: Zero‑Incident Focus

Walls; Dublin; On-site; EUR 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Pension scheme

Professional subscription support

Additional benefits

Career progression and development

Job summary

Walls Construction invites applications for a Graduate Health and Safety Advisor to support managers and staff in meeting our high health and safety standards. The role emphasizes strong local advice, collaboration, and proactive safety leadership on site.

The advisor will help deliver risk assessments, training coordination, incident investigations, and ongoing improvements to the Group Safety Management System across projects.

Responsibilities

• To maintain close working relationship with the business teams to provide active assistance and advise to ensure the effective implementation of the Group Safety Management System.
• To participate in the appointment of competent persons to undertake key safety roles and work closely with managers and trainers to ensure their training needs are identified and provided.
• To ensure risk assessment processes and systems are established for ensuring production, approval, communication, implementation and monitoring
• To monitor for effectiveness, the procedures for the management of lifting operations, temporary works, inductions, fire and emergencies, permits and other bespoke procedures required for the safety execution of the works.
• To participate in setting up and maintaining safety committees.
• To ensure risks to third parties / other contractors are understood and actioned.
• To contribute ideas to the team for the continued developed of the Group wide Safety Management System.
• To maintain an up to date knowledge of all health and safety matters relevant to the works and liaise with appropriate safety managers, safety organisations and trade associations.
• To ensure that accident and incident investigation is properly carried out to identify both immediate and underlying causes, actions to prevent recurrence and a robust defence of claims.
• To provide reports on health & safety performance to the relevant managers.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels within the construction industry community.
• Maintain professional and close working relationship with directors, operation managers, project managers and project management teams.
• Promote Group health and safety abilities to staff and customers.

Job description

Walls Construction invites applications for a Graduate Health and Safety Advisor to support managers and staff in meeting our high health and safety standards. The role emphasizes strong local advice, collaboration, and proactive safety leadership on site.

The advisor will help deliver risk assessments, training coordination, incident investigations, and ongoing improvements to the Group Safety Management System across projects.