HS&W Advisor

About The Role

Are you passionate about creating safe, positive working environments and shaping a strong safety culture? Join us on the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project and play a key role in supporting one of the UK’s most exciting engineering and energy transition programmes.

As part of the project HS&W team, you’ll help ensure that all site operations meet the highest safety standards. Your role will include:

• Working closely with site management to make sure activities are well‑planned and compliant with project HS&W requirements.
• Providing competent advice on current health & safety legislation, project standards and our management systems.
• Supporting risk assessments and safe systems of work tailored to project needs.
• Helping to build and embed a positive safety culture using our Golden Rules.
• Actively monitoring, recording and reporting on HS&W performance across our workforce and subcontractors.
• Challenging unsafe behaviours and conditions, and promoting continuous improvement through observations and feedback.
• Leading or assisting with accident, incident and near‑miss investigations, ensuring lessons learned are captured and shared.
• Delivering effective H&S inductions and liaising with the Project Training Coordinator on required training.
• Responding promptly and accurately to queries from the project team and wider HS&W function.
• Working collaboratively with partner and client HS&W teams and contributing to regular coordination meetings.
• Supporting updates to the Project H&S Management System and promoting best practice to enhance customer relationships.
• Maintaining a visible on‑site presence, coaching and mentoring personnel to drive ongoing improvement.

• NEBOSH Certificate/Diploma or equivalent (e.g., C&G).
• Membership of IOSH (TechIOSH or GradIOSH).
• Strong technical skills with the ability to prepare high‑quality HS&W reports, inspections and audits.
• Proven experience conducting incident investigations, identifying root causes and defining proportionate corrective actions.
• Confident use of Microsoft 365 and general IT tools.
• Experience working in multidiscipline engineering and construction environments.
• A commitment to maintaining competence through ongoing CPD.
• The confidence to challenge unsafe acts at all levels and promote proactive safety behaviours.

• 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 Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects including HS2, the new high‑speed railway and the first nuclear power station in a generation, Hinkley Point

C. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.

From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large‑scale projects safely and successfully.

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. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture 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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