Trainee Health & Safety Advisor

GHPC is interested to hear from enthusiastic, answer-seeking and motivated graduates and trainees looking to develop a career in health & safety or construction, who would be interested in joining our team in Bracknell, Berkshire to learn all about construction health & safety and give you a launchpad to your career, with training and mentoring included. We will teach you as much as you want to learn - in return, we value loyalty, hard-work, team players and a flexible approach.

Please note that direct applications are welcomed for this position - it will not be available through third-party recruitment agencies.

Who are we?

GHPC Group Ltd is a multi-disciplinary construction consultancy covering the whole of the UK. We offer an integrated development solution to the construction industry from an experienced team of Chartered Surveyors, Principal Designers, CDM Experts and Defects Claims Experts.

Our extensive professional expertise allows us to have a very realistic view of the development process; as such, we are trusted partners to many UK based developers and clients, able to provide our clients with a value-added, quality service for a flexible & workable price, allowing them to use us as much as they need.

We are committed to being our best, every single day!

The Role

We are looking to invest in graduates and trainees who want to launch a career in construction health & safety, and would welcome applications from committed, curious and enthusiastic individuals!

Working in the CDM and Health & Safety Team, as a Graduate / Trainee Health & Safety Advisor you will provide day-to-day project support to the CDM and H&S Advisory Team, which will include getting to know how we work, gaining an understanding of the construction industry and what our clients do, and on a practical level will give you a lot of technical and administrative experience in compiling and formatting key project Health & Safety documents, which are so crucial to keeping our company and our clients on track and legally compliant.

This is an entry-level position, so you don’t need to have any experience. This role has been designed to give you a launchpad to your career in health & safety and construction – it will give you the opportunity to develop your career with GHPC over the next few years, with relevant training, experience and industry courses, engagement with senior experts in their field, and in-depth learning opportunities to ensure that you can progress towards a senior position within our team of experts.

You will probably have a university degree, but we also welcome stand-out candidates who have some demonstrable formal education with good grades for English & Maths at least.

Enthusiastic communicators who can write and speak fluently in English, with a good vocabulary are really essential for this post – you’ll not only need to regularly get in touch with clients and other project contacts by telephone and email, but you’ll also have to develop a great relationship with the rest of the CDM and Health & Safety Team, asking questions, trying to find out as much as you can, keeping your mentors up to date with task progress, and generally taking a keen interest in the work that the company does.

A keen eye for detail is absolutely essential – you need to be able to spot hazards, problem-solve and identify crucial information so that we can give the very best advice to our clients. Taking pride in what you do will go hand-in-hand with this, so being able to accept and learn from feedback from your more experienced colleagues will be vital to help you progress.

Being experienced using computers, software and IT systems is really important in this role, a confident attitude to learning new processes is really going to help you develop here, and you may even have skills which can be developed in the wider team.

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