What you'll be doing
- Guidance and support - Provide guidance, support, and advice on Health and Safety to ensure compliance.
- Monitor and ensure adherence to H&S protocols and regulations.
- When on site, engage with the team to provide coaching and support on
health and safety practices.
- Actively promote and encourage safe behaviours among all team members on site.
As a Senior Health and Safety Advisor you will have the following accountabilities:
- Providing support to the operational team during the pre-construction phase, developing H&S documentation and assisting the project team when required.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action Plan
Undertake planned & unplanned inspections, audits, joint tours and reviews of projects
- Produce formal reports on findings and communicate these to the project.
- Engage with site teams to identify safer ways of working using the hierarchy of control
- Deliver on-going approved H&S Awareness Training to meet project and business needs
- Assist in the compilation of risk assessments and written safe systems of work
- Support the delivery of briefings & toolbox talks
- Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated across the Project
- Support H&S work winning activities across the business
- Support and maintain a constant focus on the behavioural safety programme
- Support the Projects during near miss/incident/accident investigations
- Support the H&S upskilling and development of the business operational teams
- Support the local & external audit programme across the Projects
Who we're looking for
The following personal qualities and experience are required:
- Membership of a relevant professional body (IOSH/IEMA) or working towards
- Educated to NEBOSH National Level Certificate or equivalent
- Comfortable in an office environment producing H&S documentation.
- Full driving licence and willingness to travel
- Good communicator with influencing and persuasion skills
- Approachable
- Good interpersonal skills and team player
- Displaying and demonstrating the Balfour Beatty behaviours at all times
- Incident/Accident investigator/fact finder
- Accurate record keeping
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com