HS&W Advisor

About The Role

Are you passionate about creating safer workplaces and driving positive safety culture? Join us on the Net Zero Teesside (NZT) project and play a key role in supporting one of the UK’s most significant engineering and environmental programmes. We’re looking for a proactive Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HS&W) Advisor to guide and support our project team, helping us deliver our work safely, responsibly, and in full compliance with standards.

• Partnering with the Project Site Management team to ensure all operations are planned and delivered safely and in line with HS&W requirements.
• Providing expert advice on current H&S legislation, company standards and project-specific compliance.
• Supporting risk assessments and helping to prepare safe systems of work.
• Promoting a positive safety culture aligned to our core principles and Golden Rules.
• Monitoring, recording and reporting HS&W performance for both our teams and subcontractors.
• Actively challenging unsafe behaviours and conditions and driving continuous improvement.
• Leading and supporting near‑miss reporting and improvement observation processes.
• Conducting high‑quality investigations into incidents, near misses and events, identifying lessons learned.
• Delivering project inductions and supporting HS&E training alongside the Training Coordinator.
• Collaborating with HS&W colleagues, partners and client representatives.
• Participating in reviews and updates to the Project HS&S Management System.
• Maintaining a strong on‑site presence, coaching and supporting personnel across the project.

We’re looking for someone with strong technical knowledge, practical site experience and a commitment to shaping a safe, learning‑driven working environment.

• NEBOSH Certificate/Diploma, C&G or equivalent qualification.
• Membership of a professional body such as IOSH (TechIOSH / GradIOSH).
• Experience preparing technical inspection and audit reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong background in incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Confident user of Microsoft 365 and online databases.
• Experience working in multi‑discipline engineering construction environments.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• 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/partner’s 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…