Role: HSEQ Engineer
📍 Location: Preston / Chorley / Bolton / Lancashire (with occasional site visits - around 1–2 days per month)
💰 Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum, depending on experience
💰 Benefits: 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension with 10% employer contribution
📅 Working hours: 8:00–16:30 Monday to Thursday, 8:00–13:00 Friday
📅 Flexible working: Opportunity to work from home a couple of days per week, subject to project needs
The client
Our client are a UK-based engineering and industrial-plant business specialising in bespoke bulk materials handling systems and full process plant solutions. Our expertise covers the full project lifecycle – from feasibility studies and technical consultation through to EPCM/EPC contracts, construction, installation, commissioning, and long-term maintenance.
We deliver solutions for clients across mining, cement, aggregates, food, alternative fuels, biomass, tunnelling, infrastructure, and ports, both in the UK and internationally.
Purpose of role:
Support projects with HSEQ input while helping to improve the business integrated management system (IMS/QMS).
HSEQ Engineer duties & responsibilities:
* Participate in project kick-off meetings to ensure QHSE standards and requirements are embedded from the outset
* Develop and maintain project SHEQ plans and related documentation
* Support project managers to ensure QHSE plans are followed throughout the project lifecycle
* Ensure non-conformances and near misses are recorded, tracked and closed out
* Drive a culture of continuous improvement across quality, health, safety and environmental performance
* Deliver and support an internal audit schedule
* Carry out QHSE audits against internal procedures and relevant standards
* Provide clear reporting and escalation of QHSE issues to senior stakeholders
* Assist in issue management and corrective/preventive actions across projects
* Use MS Office and SharePoint to manage documentation, records and reports
* Work closely with project managers and engineers to interpret and apply engineering drawings and specifications
* Ensure QHSE requirements are considered in design, procurement, construction and commissioning activities
* Contribute to the redevelopment of the integrated management system from the ground up, including procedures and templates
* Embrace a high-volume, admin-heavy workload during the first 6–12 months as systems are rebuilt and processes are still manual
Person specification
* Experience: 2–5 years in a QHSE, HSE or quality-focused engineering/project environment
* Ability to demonstrate clear career growth and increasing responsibility over time
* Strong understanding of engineering drawings and technical specifications
* Highly motivated, driven and keen to progress within a growing business over the next 5–10 years
* Preference for candidates based in or near Adlington to enable close support and development
* Personal style: Hands-on, resilient and prepared to work hard through a challenging, change-heavy period
* Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to challenge, consult and influence project teams on QHSE matters
Qualifications
* Essential: NEBOSH qualification
* Essential: Level 3 (or similar) qualification in engineering or a closely related discipline
* Desirable: Internal or lead auditor qualification (any standard)
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