Senior Health, Safety And Wellbeing Advisor

About the Role

Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our Highways Connect Plus Services (CPS) team.

The purpose of this role is to support the development, implementation and monitoring of processes that effectively manage health, safety and wellbeing risks across the project. You will help deliver our ambition to be a safe, responsible and high-performing organisation for our people, supply chain partners and the communities we serve.

This role can be based from Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms, with regular travel across the M25 network.

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies, Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people based across eight locations on the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to operate and maintain one of Europe’s busiest motorways, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

What You’ll Be Doing

This role will be principally engaged in:

• Providing day-to-day management, guidance, support and mentoring to HSW Advisors.
• Acting as a visible champion for Health, Safety and Wellbeing across the project, engaging with both operational teams and managers.
• Supporting the implementation of organisational HSW standards at a local level and providing feedback to HSW Managers on opportunities for improvement.
• Monitoring the delivery of the HSW communications strategy and ensuring health, safety and wellbeing remain a key operational priority.
• Supporting the delivery of appropriate HSW training programmes based on project requirements.
• Undertaking targeted inspections of the HSW management system and supply chain audits, supporting actions through to completion.
• Managing your own diary and stakeholder engagement to plan and deliver site inspections and HSW conversations across depots and operational sites.
• Preparing and presenting timely reports, performance data and findings from inspections, audits and HSW activities.
• Positively representing the Health, Safety and Wellbeing function during meetings, workshops and conference calls.
• Reviewing work activities against safe systems of work and providing advice and guidance where required.
• Supporting incident investigations and ensuring corrective actions are effectively managed through to closure.

Who We’re Looking For

Essential Requirements

• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as IOSH.
• A recognised Health and Safety qualification, such as the NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent).
• A current CSCS Card.
• A clean, full UK driving licence.
• Ability to maintain a regular presence during night-time and weekend operations when required.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and digital platforms, with the ability to analyse data, identify trends and produce reports and graphical information.
• Experience working within a construction environment.

Desirable

• Experience working within a Joint Venture environment.
• Previous experience facilitating meetings through digital platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Skype.