Health and Safety Engagement Advisor

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Health and Safety Engagement Advisor within the Health and Safety Team. This role will be based on site in Water Orton, The project’s most complex network of structures in the West Midlands, this sublot includes the Delta Junction – a triangular section of the high-speed railway made up of nine precast segmental viaducts, embankments, and other bridging structures, with around 10km of track crossing a network of motorways, roads and rivers.

• To support the H&S Engagement Manager to develop, implement and monitor the behavioural change programme and lead on improving the safety culture within BBV offices and site locations. To encourage observation reporting and interventions to secure the safety and wellbeing of our personnel and the wider public.

• To support the H&S Engagement Manager to communicate and seek feedback from the supply chain on BBV performance and initiatives.

• To support the H&S Engagement Manager to undertake routine climate surveys, analyses results and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Support the development of training programmes and their delivery.

• Involvement in regular Project Induction development

• Review of Risk Assessment and Method Statements, Polices and procedural documentation.

Experienced required

• Experience as a Health & Safety Trainer

• Must hold NEBOSH Certificate (General or Construction)

• Member of IOSH

• Professional approach, coupled with strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to get the job done

• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills

• Strong IT skills – Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, Knowledge and use of Power BI

• Gathering, analysing, and reporting on key H&S data/statistics

• Ability to work on own initiative • Ability to work co-operatively with others to complete tasks and implement process improvements

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance [add/remove if required]

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements