Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

About The Role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team, supporting a variety of power projects across the North of the UK.

This role will be responsible for leading and developing a team of Health and Safety Advisors across projects in the North. Each week, the Senior Advisor will spend time at the different projects, working alongside Advisors to provide mentoring, coaching and professional support.

The project locations include: Tyne & Wear, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, Leeds and Manchester.

Due to the geographical spread of the projects, the base location for this role is flexible. However, the successful candidate must be willing to travel regularly on a weekly basis. A company car will be provided, and all business travel expenses will be reimbursed. This is a hybrid role, combining site visits, regional travel and home working.

The Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor will provide expert HS&W advice, guidance and support to project teams, helping to embed a positive culture where health is given the same priority as safety. The role will involve proactively identifying emerging trends, analysing performance data and sharing insights with management teams to drive continuous improvement and implement effective health, safety and wellbeing initiatives across the business.

What you'll be doing

• Implement Business Unit Zero Harm strategy through visible leadership to drive the delivery of the Zero Harm Action Plan, to help embed a culture where health is treated like safety.
• Provide project teams with expert HS&W technical advice, guidance and support.
• Collaboratively engage with both internal & external customers and the supply chain to promote zero harm delivery.
• In conjunction with operational management complete a local and bespoke risk-based Service Level Agreement with each project which is kept under quarterly review to provide assurance that the project is compliant with HS&W requirements of UK regulatory framework and the UK Business Management System (BMS).
• Undertake regular site inspections as per project risk matrix and produce formal reports using the Project Portal to record planned & unplanned HS&W inspections.
• Undertakes regular checks on Health and Safety Risk Management ensuring that appropriate risks and opportunities have been identified and are being implemented.
• Provide expert support to investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty Group Standards and BMS requirements.
• Support work winning teams with quality HS&W responses for bids, proposals and PQQs for future projects.
• Engage and develop relationships with design & engineering teams to eliminate and reduce HS&W risk through design.
• Challenge the norm by innovating and improving the way we work, whilst keeping pace with industry change and promote successes.
• Provide support and mentoring to other HS&W colleagues in their development.

Who we're looking for

• Relevant H&S qualifications with relevant on site experience.
• Full clean driving licence, and willingness to travel
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework.
• Ability to influence and promote a positive HS&W culture by engaging and conversing at all levels.
• Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets.
• Competence in incident investigation.
• Ability to prepare formal written reports on HS&W topics.
• Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and Balfour Beatty.
• Experience of complex construction and civils projects
• Previous supervisory experience preferred but not essential

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?

Benefits

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…

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

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:

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