Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

About the role

Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor with a background in civil engineering and cabling to join our Power Transmission & Distribution team, supporting the delivery of the Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL2) project in Yorkshire.

The role is based at our Market Weighton site in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Regular travel across the 60km EGL2 project route will be required as part of the position.

What you'll be doing

• Ensure that HS&W objectives are embedded into projects and owned by line
  management


• Drive Safety, Health, Environmental & sustainability compliance and
  provide high quality specialist support and advice directly to line management on how they should control HS&W risks.


• Support line management at meetings with Clients and providing information as required.


• Creating an open "challenging" culture of communication to facilitate learning, to motivate individuals and teams alike throughout all stages of the work process to support sustained HS&W improvements.


• Support delivery of the Behavioural Safety programme ( e.g. Take Care / Making Safety Personal)


• Attend regular site meetings, investigations, internal meeting etc., to support the management teams in the delivery of outstanding HS&W performance.


• Provide support in specialist areas and to specialist groups such as Fatal Risk Groups, Work Instruction Committees, BMS Groups etc.


• Support line management in the development of local health, safety environmental and sustainability plans, training requirements and understanding of legal (both health & safety and environmental aspects).


• Support business development activities by providing HS&W support and input into tender submissions


• Support and conduct site inspections, audit and assurance activities including facilitating external audits by clients and accreditation bodies as required.


• Undertake a mixture of site visits, observation, 1:1 sessions, analysis of reports and data to identify areas to improve health, safety & environmental performance. Put forward recommendations for improvement.


• Assist in the identification of training needs, the development of training programme and/or change management programmes.


• Participate in incident investigations/serious Incident Reviews as required

Who we're looking for

• Degree or Diploma qualification (or equivalent) in a health and safety related discipline
  (e.g.: NEBOSH/NCRQ Diploma in Health and Safety)



• Candidates must have experience working within regulated utility industries, such as water, gas, oil, or energy.



• Strong knowledge of electrical safety and working in either substation, cabling or overhead line environment.


• Strong knowledge of excavations and risks associated with heavy plant movement


• A strong communicator able to express clearly and succinctly ideas, plans and
  priorities to a wide audience and across all levels of the organisation.


• A confident and engaging individual, who can motivate others and who has strong influencing skills.


• An effective listener, able to quickly assess situations or problems and can
  demonstrate a flexible approach to problem solving.


• Strong analytical skills with excellent report writing and presentation skills.


• Responds well when working within a team or independently, and able to respond calmly and with empathy when working under conditions of continuing pressure and to deadlines to achieve the desired target and goals.


• Experience of conducting, accident / incident investigations and establishing root causes.


• Experience of undertaking risk based health & safety and/or environmental and/or quality inspections/ audits and producing reports of findings.


• Demonstrates drive and enthusiasm for the role, taking responsibility for their learning and development.


• Strong IT Skills (Outlook, Word Excel, PowerPoint).


• Good depth of knowledge in health & safety law, environmental law & ecological
  matters.


• Willing & able to travel across project area


• Full driving licence

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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

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

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com