Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor (Lancashire)

Job Title:
Group Health, Safety and Environment Advisor

Location:
Lancaster, LA1

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity?
Join Persimmon Homes as a Group Health, Safety and Environment Advisor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established house builders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Group Health, Safety and Environment Advisor, you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Company car/Car allowance
• 5
  * house builder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Health Care
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Health, Safety & Environment Team. This role typically reports to the Senior Health, Safety & Environment Advisor.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.

What you’ll do as a Group Health, Safety and Environment Advisor:

• Developing, preparing, reviewing and enforcing HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
• Identifying, risk assessing and reporting potential hazards and non-compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate to maintain company safety standards.
• Producing accurate and timely management reports and management information, such as non-compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety first approach.
• Regularly inspecting construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Including periodic out of hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
• Carrying out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
• Managing and monitoring contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised.
• Effectively communicating with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships.
• Providing HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up to date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings are undertaken and recorded.
• Managing any referrals through the safety concerns line, to ensure that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values on being customer focused and social impact.

What experience do I need?

• Fully aware of key HS&E legislation including the Construction Design and Management Regulations.
• Excellent organisational skills, being able to manage own time to meet targets and deadlines.
• Strong verbal communication skills, being able to develop strong relationships with all levels of the business from site teams to senior management.
• Excellent written communication skills, being able to produce accurate reports and maintain both written and IT based reporting systems.
• A good understanding of Microsoft Products, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety and/ or NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction (or equivalent).
• Ideally a higher level H&S qualification (or working towards this), such as:
  City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice;
  Level 6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety; NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Level 6; or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety.
• Ideally a member of IOSH.