- Manchester, North West, UK
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Health & Safety Advisor to support our Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) works package on a new build Energy from Waste (EfW) facility. The role will ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental legislation, client requirements, and company standards.
This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated professional to work on a high-profile energy infrastructure project and make a real impact in driving safe working practices on site.
As a Safety advisor, we are looking for someone who is proactive in safety, approachable, confident in engaging with teams and can effectively communicate through different steams such as meetings, emails, presentations, and conversations.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience preferably with E&I contractor experience
- Health and Safety Diploma or Degree is desirable.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal abilities required.
- Experience in responding and reporting accident investigations
- Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
- First Aid certification
- Sound knowledge of the latest legislation and regulations and able to implement them on site.
- Accustomed to producing reports and reporting KPIs
- Excellent knowledge of data analysis and risk assessment
The general job specification is as follows:
- Overall responsibility for the safe execution of projects and site/construction implementation
- Executing the organisation HSE plan objectives.
- Preparing for and leading internal, client or 3rd party HSE audits.
- Preparing and enforcing policies to establish a culture of health and safety
- Evaluating practices, procedures and facilities to assess risk and adherence to the law
- Provide day to day advice and support to project site management, supervisors on safety issues associated with daily activates
- Promote safe working practices and lead site safety initiative programmes
- Gather accurate safety performance data from project produce weekly (including an assessment against KPI) reports.
- Carry out Investigations of safety – environmental accidents /incidents and produce reports / corrective actions.
- Monitor compliance to policies and laws by inspecting employees and operations
- Undertake Safety site inspections and audits in accordance with project audit plan
- Inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions
- Investigate accidents or incidents to discover causes and handle worker’s compensation claims
- Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities or new prevention measures
- Be the focal point for safety training and conduct any site safety briefings as required and promote the development of a positive Safety culture.
- Undertake and implement safety initiatives on sites as required
- Liaise with our Client with regard to any safety matters
- Attend site HSE & Construction meetings.