Senior Health & Safety Advisor - Power

Senior Health, Safety & Environment Adviser

Location:

High Marnham Substation, Newark

You will act as a trusted adviser and champion for Health, Safety & Environment, supporting project and operational teams to build positive, inclusive safety cultures. The role may be project-based or involve visiting multiple sites, focusing on proactive assurance, risk management and the delivery of Rethinking Safety through Inclusion and Wellbeing approach.

• Promote and embed the Rethinking Safety through Inclusion and Wellbeing programme across projects.
• Provide expert HSE advice, coaching and assurance to managers and operational teams.
• Facilitate risk assessments, investigations, learning reviews and workforce engagement activities.
• Support the implementation of Safety and Environmental Management Systems and statutory compliance.
• Analyse HSE performance, drive continuous improvement and challenge non-value-adding processes.
• Act as a key contact with enforcement bodies and support incident investigations and close-out.
• Identify training needs and support the delivery of HSE coaching and development.

• Level 4 H&S qualification (minimum) and member of a relevant professional body.
• Strong technical knowledge of occupational safety, health, wellbeing and environmental risk management.
• Experience in assurance, audit, investigation and coaching.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels.
• Positive, proactive and resilient, with a collaborative and people-focused approach.
• Confident working in complex project environments and driving cultural change.

• Base salary + car/travel allowance
• Access to PMI
• Enhanced pension and parental leave schemes
• Life, dental, and critical illness insurance
• Income protection
• 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays!)
• Professional development opportunities

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty,reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

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