Health & Safety Senior Advisor

Description

• Represent the organisation in interactions with regulators, contractors, and other external stakeholders, fostering positive relationships and promoting the health and safety profession. Keep up to date with new technologies and industry best practice. Support Water UK specialist H&S groups.
• Provide expert support in investigating significant health and safety incidents, ensuring timely production of reports, identification of root causes, implementation of business improvements, and compliance with reporting obligations to enforcement authorities within required deadlines.
• Development and use of bespoke health and safety software systems. This includes drafting guidance, supporting teams in the use of the system and running regular reports. Prepare and present reports for senior level meetings. Manage and develop health and safety performance reporting systems and produce business reports.
• Leading and delivering health and safety communications and specific health and safety awareness events and activities, e.g., Health and Safety campaigns, STEP and TRACA programmes Developing health and safety bulletins, alerts and toolbox talks and where necessary H&S films.
• Lead and support assigned business areas to effectively manage health, safety and wellbeing to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and internal standards, whilst encouraging continuous improvement. Provision of risk management and specialist health, safety and wellbeing advice for line managers and employees within allocated operational business and geographical areas. Provide support on specific operational health and safety issues.
• Providing safety information and support for the selection, and appointment of operational contractors. Support the management of construction activities in line with the Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations. Developing and carrying out health and safety site and system audits and inspections with internal and external partners, e.g., to support the annual major risk review, as part of contractor tender processes.
• Acting as contract manager for health and safety-related services, including occupational health provision, DSE equipment, and H&S software systems. Oversee budgets for specific projects.
• Developing and reviewing diverse technical company risk assessments, COSHH assessments and safe working procedures. Take a lead role in process safety management advice, particularly at high-risk sites such as COMAH and Advanced Anaerobic Digestion facilities.
• Act as trusted advisor to Heads of Service and taking the lead on specific health and safety risks and project work. Directing colleagues to undertake actions linked to specific issues and projects. Lead initiatives to improve health and safety performance, including major risk reviews, safety culture programmes, and the coordination of Health & Safety Champions. Provide key specialist H&S advice and support the health safety and wellbeing improvement forums and consultation groups.
• Lead and support the development and delivery of specified health, safety and wellbeing policies, procedures and improvement activities. This includes the development, review and delivery of health and safety training sessions and workshops. Work with internal and external providers to develop training courses and materials.

Requirements

• Experience of producing clear and effective written documents for a varied audience, including technical disciplines.
• The ability to gather understand and analyse critical information quickly and make timely, practical and effective decisions.
• Ability to think creatively and develop/drive improvement activities.
• Qualified to NEBOSH level 6 Diploma or equivalent.
• Full UK driver’s licence with the ability to travel as the job requires.
• Ability to prioritise workload and conflicting demands whilst being able to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Experience of delivering presentations and effective facilitation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• NEBOSH Process Safety Certificate (essential for the role, training to obtain this will be arranged if the candidate does not already have this qualification).
• Proven experience of delivering projects to completion in a timely and accurate manner, to a set budget.
• IT literate – familiar with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience providing effective health, safety and wellbeing advisory service within a technical discipline, e.g., Utilities, Construction, Engineering and COMAH / CDM understanding.
• Confident and authoritative with professional credibility.
• Skllied in building relationships and demonstrable skill negotiating and influencing both internally and externally and ability to show interpersonal sensitivity.

Benefits

• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• This role includes car allowance.
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services
• £5K car allowance / year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance