Senior Health and Safety Advisor

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Health and Safety Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team in Aberdeenshire.
In this role, you will be instrumental in supporting some of Scotland’s largest power projects, ensuring the safety of our teams working on substations, cabling, and overhead lines.
We are seeking a candidate who is proficient in producing Health and Safety documentation and can collaborate effectively with operational colleagues. Your role will involve providing crucial support during the pre-construction phase, ensuring a seamless transition to the construction phase.
The successful candidate should be comfortable with both office-based tasks and on-site responsibilities.
We are looking for candidates who are comfortable with travel between project sites, with occasional overnight stays as required. A company car will be provided, and expenses for overnight stays will be covered

What you’ll be doing

• Guidance and support - Provide guidance, support, and advice on Health and Safety (H&S) to ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty’s HSES Integrated Business Management System (BMS), relevant legislation, BSI requirements, and client standards.
• Compliance monitoring- Monitor and ensure adherence to H&S protocols and regulations.
• On-Site Engagement - When on site, engage with the team to provide coaching and support on health and safety practices.
• Promoting safe behaviours- Actively promote and encourage safe behaviours among all team members on site.

As a health and safety advisor you will have the following accountabilities:

• Providing support to the operational team during the pre-construction phase, developing H&S documentation and assisting the project team when required.
• Contribute to the implementation of the Zero Harm & Sustainability Action PlanUndertake planned & unplanned inspections, audits, joint tours and reviews of projects
• Produce formal reports on findings and communicate these to the project.
• Be involved at the planning stage to support design teams to identify and control risk.
• Engage with site teams to identify safer ways of working using the hierarchy of control
• Deliver on-going approved H&S Awareness Training to meet project and business needs
• Relentlessly pursue every opportunity to challenge the norm
• Assist in the compilation of risk assessments and written safe systems of work
• Support the delivery of briefings & toolbox talks
• Ensure the project is compliant with all H&S Regulations, Company Policies and the BMS
• Provide H&S advice and support at an operational level
• Ensure lessons learned are effectively communicated across the Project /Business area.
• Support H&S work winning activities across the business
• Support and maintain a constant focus on the behavioural safety programme
• Support their Project /Business area during near miss/incident/accident investigations
• Support the H&S upskilling and development of the business operational teams
• Promote H&S initiatives and innovations across their Project /Business area
• Support the local & external audit programme across their Project /Business area

What you’ll be doing

• Guidance and support - Provide guidance, support, and advice on Health and Safety (H&S) to ensure compliance with Balfour Beatty’s HSES Integrated Business Management System (BMS), relevant legislation, BSI requirements, and client standards.
• Compliance monitoring- Monitor and ensure adherence to H&S protocols and regulations.
• On-Site Engagement - When on site, engage with the team to provide coaching and support on health and safety practices.
• Promoting safe behaviours- Actively promote and encourage safe behaviours among all team members on site

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