Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Overview

In this role you will support the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action Plan, delivering practical HSW guidance and assurance across site teams and subcontractors. You will lead inspections, audits and reporting, influence planning and design to manage risk, and drive safe working practices and training. You will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure compliance and share lessons learned to improve performance. This is an opportunity to shape safety culture in a major infrastructure business and contribute to sustainable project delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• Smart working with flexible hours
• Up to 40% remote working where roles allow
• 25 days paid annual leave
• Maternity/adoption leave: 28 weeks full pay
• Paternity/partners leave: four weeks full pay
• Pension and share incentive plan

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action Plan
• Conduct inspections, audits, site tours and reviews with clear reports and actions
• Provide practical HSW advice, coaching and support to site teams, supply chain and subcontractors
• Engage early in planning and design to identify and control risk
• Promote safer methods of working using hierarchy of control and behavioural safety
• Deliver HSW training, briefings and toolbox talks
• Ensure compliance with HSW legislation, company policies and the BMS
• Support incident investigations and share lessons learned across the business
• Contribute to HSW initiatives, continuous improvement and best practice sharing
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and support HSW input into work-winning activities
• Support audits, drive performance improvement and champion HSW innovation across projects

Key requirements

• NEBOSH National Level Certificate or equivalent
• Good communicator with influencing and persuasion skills
• Approachable with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Demonstrates Balfour Beatty behaviours
• Incident/Accident investigator / fact finder
• Accurate record keeping
• Relevant experience in a construction / civils role
• UK driving licence holder and willing to travel

• communication
• influencing
• approachability
• HSW compliance
• incident investigation
• audits and reporting

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