Health & Safety Advisor

Overview

Bouygues Construction’s General Management is deeply committed to Health and Safety, overseeing its performance across all areas of our Group’s activities. We are looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to join Bouygues UK. This is a UK wide role and will involve travel.

Our primary goal is Zero Serious Accidents. This target includes Bouygues Construction employees, temporary workers, subcontractors, and partners working on our construction sites. In 2024, to strengthen our safety culture, our Group’s 32,500 employees and partners participated in workshops designed to familiarise themselves with the 6 major risks responsible for 80% of serious accidents, the 5 defence barriers (technical, organisational, managerial, and human) that can prevent tragedies, and our 10 life‑saving rules.

These workshops were crucial for understanding, assimilating, and acting on the risks inherent in our business.

• Relevant construction experience
• Relevant UK or regional position previously held
• Providing advice and guidance on organisational health, safety and fire matters, legislation and safe working practices
• Investigate accidents and incidents and producing accurate reports
• Undertaking audits and inspections and being able to influence project teams and contractors
• Establishing organisational forums for the effective management, communication and dissemination of relevant health and safety information relating to all issues
• Experience in UK regulations – (LOLER, Work at Height, Asbestos, Manual Handling, COSHH, CDM, etc.)
• NEBOSH/NVQ
• Training delivery skills and experience

Our teams deploy technically innovative solutions for a diverse range of challenging projects throughout the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Day in day out our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture our values reflect how we operate with Respect, Commitment, Pioneering, Sharing.

• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Generous share scheme
• BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits

Bouygues UK is part of Bouygues Group, a diverse global business which operates in the construction, engineering, energy, media and telecommunications markets. With annual sales of over €56,900 billon (December 2025) and operating in 80 countries, the financial strength of our group is a key differentiator in these challenging economic times.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.