Description
SHEQ Support Engineer -3 month Contract - Immediate Start Available
We are recruiting for one of the nation's largest commercial companies who provide an extensive range of construction services including construction management, general contracting, design and build and preconstruction.
The role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic SHEQS advisor with experience in the Support of the company goal of "Zero Harm" by providing business focused advice and support to operational teams on Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality (HSEQ) management and meeting legal & company standards. Through use of onsite mentoring and support to develop a positive HSEQ culture of continual improvement. Utilise work/role experiences as a source of learning in order to influence behaviours and cultural change to facilitate sustainable excellence in HSEQ performance throughout all stages of the work process
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Ensure that HSEQ objectives are Embedded into projects and owned by line management
- Drive Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality compliance across projects and provide high quality specialist support and advice directly to line management on how they should control HSEQ risks.
- Support line management at meetings with Clients and providing information as required.
- Creating an open "challenging" culture of communication to facilitate learning, to motivate individuals and
teams alike throughout all stages of the work process to support sustained HSEQ improvements.
- Support delivery of the Behavioural Safety programme ( eg Take Care/Making Safety Personal)
- Attend regular site meetings, investigations, internal meeting etc., to support the management teams in the delivery of outstanding HSEQ performance.
- Provide support in specialist areas and to specialist groups such as Fatal Risk Groups, Environmental
Committees, Sustainability Committees, Work Instruction Committees, BMS Groups etc. Lead and provide
advice to other advisers in specific specialist areas.
- Support line management in the development of local health, safety environmental and quality plans, training requirements and understanding of legal (both health & safety and environmental aspects).
- Liaise with regulators, clients and Balfour Beatty teams as required
- Keep up to date with changes to legislation and standards where applicable, recommend and develop changes to systems and processes
- Support business development activities by providing HSEQ support and input into tender submissions.
- Support and conduct site inspections, audit and assurance activities including facilitating external audits by clients and accreditation bodies as required.
- Support the development and implementation of new HSEQ policies, processes, procedures and work instructions and their updating.
- Support the development and delivery of training and toolbox talks.
- Undertake a mixture of site visits, observation, 1:1 sessions, analysis of reports and data to identify areas to improve health, safety & environmental performance. Put forward recommendations for improvement.
- Assist in the identification of training needs, the development of training programmes, and/or change management programmes.
- Participate in incident investigations, Serious Incident Reviews as required
The candidate:
Operational health & safety and/or environmental and/or quality experience in a construction environment.
- Strong knowledge of electrical safety and working in either substation, cabling or overhead line environment.
- A strong communicator able to express clearly and succinctly ideas, plans and priorities to a wide audience and across all levels of the organisation.
- A confident and engaging individual, who can motivate others and who has strong influencing skills.
- An effective listener, able to quickly assess situations or problems and can demonstrate a flexible approach to problem solving.
- Strong analytical skills with excellent report writing and presentation skills.
- Responds well when working within a team or independently, and able to respond calmly and with empathy when working under conditions of continuing pressure and to deadlines to achieve the desired target and goals.
- Experience of conducting, accident/incident investigations and establishing root causes.
- Experience of undertaking risk based health & safety and/or environmental and/or quality inspections/audits and producing reports of findings.
- Demonstrates drive and enthusiasm for the role, taking responsibility for their learning and development.
- A recognised qualification in health & safety, environment or quality eg NEBOSH, IEMA (or equivalent) at a minimum of Certificate level.
- Strong IT Skills (Outlook, Word Excel, PowerPoint).
- Good depth of knowledge in health & safety law, environmental law & ecological matters.
- Willing to travel across England and Wales. Work away from home and work independently without direct supervision.
- Full driving licence
The role is offering an excellent rate of pay with the opportunity to work with world's leading constructions and civil engineering companies
To apply for this role please send through your CV for consideration and we will be in touch should your experience match our criteria. Unfortunately due to high volume we will only be able to contact those who have been shortlisted.
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