Job Title: Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor
Location: Norwich
About the Role
Expanded, part of Laing O'Rourke, is delivering the A47/A11 Thickthorn Junction Bridges project. We are looking to strengthen our Health, Safety & Wellbeing team to support safe and effective site delivery.
As a Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Adviser, you'll work closely with site teams and leaders to promote a positive safety culture, taking a people‑focused approach through Rethinking Safety Through Inclusion & Wellbeing. Reporting to the Senior Health & Safety Manager, the role offers a strong opportunity for development within a major infrastructure project.
You'll Do
- Champion and actively deliver the Rethinking Safety Through Inclusion & Wellbeing approach.
- Support proactive assurance activities aligned to project risk profiles.
- Facilitate collective insights sessions, appreciative enquiries and positive investigations to understand how success is created.
- Facilitate Fatal & Severe Risk Assessments and contribute to risk assurance activities.
- Help operational teams explore work as imagined vs. work as done.
- Build strong, trusting relationships that encourage open dialogue about safety.
- Support leaders to build soft skills—listening, openness, collaboration and curiosity.
- Promote innovation and support adoption of new methods, technologies and systems.
- Assist with incident investigations and help the team embed meaningful learning.
- Act as a contact point for communication with enforcement bodies when required.
- Support monitoring, improvement and reporting of safety maturity goals.
What You Bring
- Level 4 qualification (minimum) in Health & Safety.
- Strong technical knowledge of occupational health, safety and wellbeing.
- Competence in coaching, training, assurance/audit or investigations.
- Member of a relevant professional body (or working towards membership).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage at all levels.
- Curiosity, empathy and the confidence to ask questions that uncover insight.
- A positive, forward‑thinking mindset with a passion for improvement.
- Resilience and emotional intelligence and calm under pressure, thoughtful in approach.
- A self‑starter attitude: energetic, motivated, able to inspire and influence.
What's in It for You?
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
- Clear progression and professional development within a supportive team.
- Exposure to significant National Grid infrastructure projects.
- The opportunity to influence cultural change in a major UK construction environment.
- Learning and mentoring opportunities from highly experienced HSE leaders.
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
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