Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor (Nottingham)

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Job Title: Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor (Nottingham)
Location: Mansfield, NG18

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 & Environment Advisor, you’ll benefit from a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported and your work truly matters.

• Competitive salary
• Company car/Car allowance
• 5
  * house builder – consistency in quality homes and customer satisfaction
• Health Care
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – high‑street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion and empowering your development

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.

• Develop, prepare, review and enforce HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
• Identify, risk assess and report potential hazards and non‑compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate.
• Produce accurate and timely management reports and information, such as non‑compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety‑first approach.
• Regularly inspect construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Include periodic out‑of‑hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
• Carry out incident‑led investigations and report applicable incidents to HSE under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
• Manage and monitor contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to minimise HS&E risks.
• Effectively communicate with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships.
• Provide HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up‑to‑date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings undertaken and recorded.
• Manage any referrals through the safety concerns line, ensuring that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values of being customer focused and social impact.

• Fully aware of key HS&E legislation including the Construction Design and Management Regulations.
• Excellent organisational skills, able to manage own time to meet targets and deadlines.
• Strong verbal communication skills, able to develop strong relationships with all levels of the business from site teams to senior management.
• Excellent written communication skills, able to produce accurate reports and maintain 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.

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