Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

About The Role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team, supporting a variety of power projects across the North of the UK.

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team, supporting a variety of power projects across the North of the UK. This role will be responsible for leading and developing a team of Health and Safety Advisors across projects in the North. Each week, the Senior Advisor will spend time at the different projects, working alongside Advisors to provide mentoring, coaching and professional support.

The project locations include:
Tyne & Wear, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, Leeds and Manchester. Due to the geographical spread of the projects, the base location for this role is flexible. However, the successful candidate must be willing to travel regularly on a weekly basis. A company car will be provided, and all business travel expenses will be reimbursed. This is a hybrid role, combining site visits, regional travel and home working.

The Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor will provide expert HS&W advice, guidance and support to project teams, helping to embed a positive culture where health is given the same priority as safety. The role will involve proactively identifying emerging trends, analysing performance data and sharing insights with management teams to drive continuous improvement and implement effective health, safety and wellbeing initiatives across the business.

• Implement Business Unit Zero Harm strategy through visible leadership to drive the delivery of the Zero Harm Action Plan, to help embed a culture where health is treated like safety.
• Provide project teams with expert HS&W technical advice, guidance and support.
• Collaboratively engage with both internal & external customers and the supply chain to promote zero harm delivery.
• In conjunction with operational management complete a local and bespoke risk-based Service Level Agreement with each project which is kept under quarterly review to provide assurance that the project is compliant with HS&W requirements of UK regulatory framework and the UK Business Management System (BMS).
• Undertake regular site inspections as per project risk matrix and produce formal reports using the Project Portal to record planned & unplanned HS&W inspections.
• Undertakes regular checks on Health and Safety Risk Management ensuring that appropriate risks and opportunities have been identified and are being implemented.
• Provide expert support to investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty Group Standards and BMS requirements.
• Support work winning teams with quality HS&W responses for bids, proposals and PQQs for future projects.
• Engage and develop relationships with design & engineering teams to eliminate and reduce HS&W risk through design.
• Challenge the norm by innovating and improving the way we work, whilst keeping pace with industry change and promote successes.
• Provide support and mentoring to other HS&W colleagues in their development.

• Relevant H&S qualifications with relevant on site experience.
• Full clean driving licence, and willingness to travel
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework.
• Ability to influence and promote a positive HS&W culture by engaging and conversing at all levels.
• Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets.
• Competence in incident investigation.
• Ability to prepare formal written reports on HS&W topics.
• Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply…