About the role
*Sellafield Nuclear Plant, Cumbria*
At Balfour Beatty, we're committed to creating a safer, healthier and more sustainable future. We are looking for an experienced Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to join our team at Sellafield, where you'll play a key role in driving our Zero Harm culture and supporting the delivery of critical projects within one of the UK's most complex nuclear environments
What you'll be doing
Reporting to the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager, you'll provide expert HS&W support to project delivery teams, helping to maintain the highest standards of safety, wellbeing and performance across site operations. This is a highly visible, site-based role where you'll work closely with operational teams, contractors and customers to promote best practice and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing day-to-day Health, Safety & Wellbeing support across project teams.
- Conducting inspections, audits and site visits to ensure compliance and promote continual improvement.
- Leading, developing and coaching HS&W Advisors and Specialists.
- Monitoring working practices and intervening when unsafe behaviours are observed.
- Supporting incident investigations and ensuring actions are effectively closed out.
- Building strong relationships with project stakeholders, contractors and safety representatives.
- Sharing lessons learned and embedding best practice across the project.
- Driving performance against HS&W objectives and supporting Balfour Beatty's Zero Harm strategy
Who we're looking for
We're looking for a confident and proactive HS&W professional who can influence positive behaviours and support high-performing teams.
- Experience within the nuclear or highly regulated construction environment.
- Strong planning, organisational and monitoring skills.
- Proven ability to lead and motivate teams.
- Strong knowledge of HS&E legislation and practical application.
- Experience in incident investigation.
- Ability to build effective relationships and influence a positive safety culture.
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent).
- Qualified to, or working towards, CertIOSH membership
- Able to obtain a security clearance
- CMIOSH (or working towards).
- Experience delivering HS&W training.
- Additional technical qualifications relevant to health, safety or wellbeing
Why work for us
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.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 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.
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
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Job Reference: BBUK20308
