Health & Safety Advisor

Job Description

Company: Civil Engineering & Construction

Role: Health & Safety Advisor

Salary: up to £45,000 + car allowance, pension and comprehensive benefits

Location: West Midlands Region (multiple sites)

We are looking for a Health & Safety Advisor with hands on experience driving change and helping complex organisations develop a mature safety culture.

You will be a trusted expert working with management teams to elevate awareness of safety compliance, help build a culture of pro-active hazard identification and embed HSE best-practices at all levels. 

Key Responsibilities:

Drive positive HSE culture change through education, relationship & trust building
Conduct a thorough gap-analysis across multiple sites, each at differing levels of safety maturity, to identify where mis-alignments and areas for improvement exist
Ability to apply best-practice regulations, procedures and policies in the context of work "as done" rather than work "as imagined"
Improve processes and procedures and standardise these across multiple sites
Conduct accident investigations, with a deep understanding of how multiple factors contribute
Education around hazard identification and near-miss reporting 
Be the subject-matter expert in technical HSE and regulations
Essential criteria:

NEBOSH Certificate, with at least 4 years' experience in safety
Background in utilities, civil engineering, or a related industry
Ability to work in a complex, multi-site environment
Experience with RAMs, accident and incident investigations, implementationCulture fit:

Hands-on and pro-active
A strong desire to educate, lead by example and build strong relationships at all levels
Pragmatic and down-to-earth approach, with strong interpersonal skills
For more details, please contact Siobhan at HSE Recruitment Network
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed