Health Safety and Wellbeing Manager

About the Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Health and Safety Manager to join our Power T&D team on the Lower Thames Crossing project. The Health and Safety Manager will support the project during the utilities diversion phase, ensuring safe delivery of high‑risk excavation works in proximity to live services and compliance with company procedures and statutory requirements. The Lower Thames Crossing will create a new connection under the River Thames to increase capacity and ease congestion in the south of England.

Balfour Beatty will be responsible for the design and delivery of over 10 miles of new highways, connecting the M25 at Junction 29 and the A13 with the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel at Tilbury, Essex.

• Provide day to day Health and Safety support to the project team
• Support the planning and delivery of works including review of risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Engage with operational teams to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements
• Monitor site activities and intervene where unsafe conditions or behaviours are identified
• Support the implementation of procedures relating to excavation and avoiding danger from services
• Work closely with project leadership to manage risk and drive safe behaviours
• Participate in inspections audits and incident investigations as required
• Support the continuous improvement of health and safety performance across the project

• Demonstrable experience in Health and Safety management within utilities or civil engineering projects
• Strong knowledge of excavation and utility safety risks
• Experience working on high risk infrastructure projects
• Relevant qualifications e.g. NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
• Professional membership such as CMIOSH desirable
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

• This is a Full time role aligned to project working hours
• Integrated within the project team supporting delivery requirements
• Site based with regular interaction with operational teams

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabil

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