Job Title: Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
Location: Sowton, EX2 (Initial Assignment)
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
At Persimmon, we don't just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor, you'll benefit from:
Competitive salary
Company Car or Car Allowance
Bonus
5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
Life Cover & Contributory Pension
Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor to join the Health & Safety Team. This role typically reports to the Senior Group Health, Safety and Environment Advisor.
The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.
Primary Responsibilities
Develop, prepare, review and enforce HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
Identify, risk assess and report potential hazards and non-compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate to maintain company safety standards.
Produce accurate and timely management reports and management information, such as non-compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety first approach.
Regularly inspect construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Including periodic out of hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
Carry out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
Manage and monitor contractors' performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised.
Effectively communicate with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships.
Provide HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up to date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings are undertaken and recorded.
Manage any referrals through the safety concerns line, to ensure that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values on being customer focused and social impact.
Develop strong effective and trusted working relationships, where collaboration and communication is key to promoting a safe working environment.
What experience do I need?
Excellent organisational skills, being able to manage own time to meet targets and deadlines.
Strong verbal communication skills, being able to develop strong relationships with all levels of the business from site teams to senior management.
Excellent written communication skills, being able to produce accurate reports and maintain both written and IT based reporting systems.
A good understanding of Microsoft Products, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Awareness of key HS&E workplace hazards.
A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety.
Member of IOSH desirable but not essential.
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