Health & Safety Advisor - 1 Year Fixed Term

As part of a world leading geotechnical contracting group, Bachy Soletanche Limited specialises in all aspects of modern Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering, Including bored and displacement piling, diaphragm walls, grouting, mini piling, anchors, ground improvements and environmental engineering.

We value our team and colleagues as the most important assets we have and we know that it is working together to overcome the most complex geotechnical challenges that ultimately allows us to fuel that feeling of pride.

Our Mission:
Proud to create sustainable geotechnical solutions through Trust, Partnership and Excellence.

Our Values:
In line with our Mission Statement, the main Values that shape our behaviours, unify us a team and help us build long lasting relationships with our clients are: TEC-TAC = Teamwork, Excellence, Creative, Trust, Accountability, Caring.

This is a 1-year fixed-term contract role working on a shift basis.

To assist the HSE Manager with the day to day management of the department will be the key function of the role and also provide support and advice to operational teams on all aspects of health and safety management, developing health and safety documentation, meeting legal, company and project standards and helping deliver a safety culture of continual improvement and delivering the highest standards.

Understand the Clients and Regulators requirements to ensure their health and safety requirements are complied with and work with supply chain to ensure they meet their legal and contractual obligations. Support the site teams to eliminate, minimise and mitigate risk to protect the operational teams, project management, visitors and members of the public.

• Ensure that legal, contractual and procedural compliance is delivered
• Provide advice and support to operational management and teams on health and safety matters
• Work to parent company and projects codes of conduct and terms and conditions of employment
• To promote a positive culture across all levels of the team and challenge behaviours not consistent with the strategy and ethos
• To advise and support the project teams on their specific H&S duties, and provide guidance, monitoring and reporting on compliance with these responsibilities.
• To provide support to project site management and supervision to ensure that all operations and activities are effectively planned and undertaken in compliance with site and project HSE requirements.
• To provide the project team with competent advice on current HSE legislation applicable to the activities, any hazards present relevant to the scope of works
• To contribute towards building a positive team spirit on all H&S matters on the project.
• To actively challenge and report any unsafe actions and unsafe conditions.
• To ensure all enquiries from the project teams are dealt with accurately and promptly.
• Deliver suitable safety training programmes for all project personnel (including routine project inductions, toolbox talks and topic specific presentations as necessary to achieve the project goals).
• Participate in the regular reviews and updates of the project HSE management system via internal audits and with external accreditation bodies.
• Provide support to the site teams for internal and external audits.
• Maintain a visual presence on site and assist with coaching and mentoring of project personnel to ensure continuous improvements.
• Support the project management teams with the development and maintenance of project management, construction phase plans and project risk assessment and method statements.
• Undertake internal Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality Audits to identify possible gaps within the management system.
• Initiate and oversee incident investigations by putting investigation teams together, deliver time bound investigations/reports, monitor the corrective actions and close outs and share the learning with the team.
• Maintain relationships with regulators, clients, subcontractors and supply chain partners.
• Develop and maintain relationships with local and internal stakeholders.
• Oversee the management of hazard and observation reporting on a project wide basis to ensure prompt feedback is given and actions are closed out.
• Ensure the health and safety management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation, customer and project requirements.
• Ensure on site compliance with Health, safety and environmental legislation and coach teams in applying controls and mitigations.
• Support the resources and project teams to deliver training in line with the competency matrix and requirements from the project HSE Action Plans.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturers to implement a PPE management system and ensure that all employees on site have appropriate PPE for their role.
• Support the HSE Manager to produce monthly reports from the Board and key stakeholders.

Essential:

• Technician Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health working towards…