About The Role
Balfour Beatty is looking for a Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our Power Transmission and Distribution team in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. This role will be based at the Longside substation project, at the Netherton Hub – a new energy hub that will help enable the delivery of the UK and Scottish Government's net zero energy targets.
The Senior HSW Advisor will support the project team to drive HSW performance, ensuring efficient and effective advice to achieve Zero Harm objectives.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Implement Business Unit Zero Harm strategy through visible leadership to drive the delivery of the Zero Harm Action Plan, helping embed a culture where health is treated like safety.
- Provide project teams with expert HSW technical advice, guidance and support.
- Collaboratively engage with both internal and external customers and the supply chain to promote zero harm delivery.
- In conjunction with operational management complete a local and bespoke risk‑based Service Level Agreement with each project, kept under quarterly review to provide assurance that the project is compliant with HSW requirements of the UK regulatory framework and the UK Business Management System (BMS).
- Undertake regular site inspections as per project risk matrix and produce formal reports using the Project Portal to record planned and unplanned HSW inspections.
- Undertake regular checks on Health and Safety Risk Management to ensure that appropriate risks and opportunities have been identified and implemented.
- Provide expert support to investigate accidents, incidents and near‑miss events in accordance with Balfour Beatty Group Standards and BMS requirements.
- Support work‑winning teams with quality HSW responses for bids, proposals and PQQs for future projects.
- Engage and develop relationships with design and engineering teams to eliminate and reduce HSW risk through design.
- Challenge the norm by innovating and improving the way we work, keeping pace with industry change and promoting successes.
- Provide support and mentoring to other HSW colleagues in their development.
Who We’re Looking For
- Relevant H&S Diploma, NVQ or Degree (or equivalent level 6 qualification). Candidates currently working towards one of these qualifications with relevant on‑site experience may also be considered.
- Strong understanding of the UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework.
- Ability to influence and promote a positive HSW culture by engaging and conversing at all levels.
- Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets.
- Competence in incident investigation.
- Ability to prepare formal written reports on HSW topics.
- Demonstrates commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and Balfour Beatty.
- Broad experience of complex construction and civil projects.
Benefits
- Smart working, with flexibility such as staggered start and finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family‑friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
- Pension, share‑incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Balfour Beatty is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are a Disability Confident Employer and provide supporting arrangements to candidates with disabilities.
