Health and safety manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Health and Safety Manager and you can build something to be proud of here.

To support Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick’s work in southern England, you are able to be located near any of our offices with travel to different site locations.
Drive Health, Safety and Wellbeing culture change and performance, ensuring an efficient and effective service. Deliver and support all levels to meet and where possible exceed operational requirements.
To support work delivery in southern England and to assist in work winning whilst achieving Zero Harm
What you’ll be doing

As a Health and Safety Manager, you will have the following responsibilities,

• Provide advice, support, input, direction, coaching and mentoring to the project teams to enable to them to deliver successful bids, early engineering studies, mobilisation and ultimately delivery of new projects in a coherent and co-ordinated manner.
• Develop and deliver Health, Safety and Wellbeing culture improvement initiatives and programmes.
• Be the face of BBK at customer and client framework events.
• Attend customer meetings, workshops and site tours as and when required.
• Undertake health, safety and wellbeing compliance evaluations, tours and audits as required and to ensure sufficient assurance of project activities.
• In conjunction with the Client, Project and Head and Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, carry out project performance reviews and report as required.
• Review and investigate accidents, incidents and near miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty standards to identify and effectively share lessons learned across the business and the wider Balfour Beatty.
• Ensure actions and recommendations are tracked and the investigation process is applied.
• Ensure Client and Balfour Beatty accident reporting requirements are fulfilled.
• Monitor, collate and interpret performance data including close out of inspection and accident investigation reports, and provide management reports on a routine basis.
• Liaise with regulators and develop proactive relationships (where applicable).
• Work with the wider BB Health, Safety and Wellbeing team to promote Zero Harm and continuous improvement of performance through special projects, local initiatives and improvement plans.
• Develop professional relationships with customers.

Who we’re looking for

Do you have?

• Corporate Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards).
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
• Must have detailed, technical knowledge and experience health, safety and wellbeing legislation, regulations and guidance.
• Utilities and/or Construction industry experience, and particularly CDM.
• Experience of working in infrastructure / nuclear / oil and gas / highly regulated industries.
• Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams and of working at a senior level.
• Knowledge of behavioural change / behavioural safety / human performance / culture change techniques would be advantageous.
• Relevant CSCS Card

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.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Job Reference: BBUK0880