Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

About the Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team in Devizes on the North Wessex Downs project. Balfour Beatty is removing 13 pylons and replacing 4.6 km of overhead lines with underground cables within the North Wessex Downs landscape. This project will restore the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in Devizes, delivered as part of National Grid’s Visual Impact Provision (VIP) programme.

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor will play a key role in ensuring the safe delivery of the project, providing efficient and effective advice to achieve our Zero Harm goals and uphold the highest safety standards.

• Fully understand and support delivery of UK HSW Strategy.
• Contribute to the implementation, delivery and review of the Zero Harm Action Plan and Sustainability Action plan.
• Support the delivery of the HSW Key Performance Indicators at project & business level.
• Support work‑winning teams with quality and innovative HSW responses for bids, proposals and PQQs.
• Provide expert support to investigate accidents, incidents and near‑miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty Group Standards and BMS requirements.
• In conjunction with operational management complete a local and bespoke risk‑based Service Level Agreement with each project, kept under quarterly review.
• Undertake regular site inspections as per project risk matrix.
• Produce formal reports using the Project Portal to record planned & unplanned HSW inspections, reviewing project performance against the UK HSWS Regulatory Framework & UK Business Management System (BMS) requirements.
• Undertake regular checks on Health and Safety Risk Management ensuring that appropriate risks and opportunities have been identified and are being implemented.

• Minimum requirement: NEBOSH General or NVQ Level 3 Occupational Health and Safety.
• IOSH membership: minimum Tech IOSH.
• Ability to influence and promote a positive HS&W culture.
• Competence in incident investigation.
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework and experience in HS&W Business Management Systems.
• Ability to prepare formal written reports on HSW topics.
• Ability to undertake project planning and project management.
• Demonstrated commitment to continual learning and applying expertise.
• Broad experience of complex construction and civil projects.
• Ability to engage and converse at all levels.

• Smart working with staggered start and finish times, up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro-rata).
• Family-friendly policies: 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 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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. We encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. We are proud members of WISE, ENEI, the Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers.