Balfour Beatty is looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team. This role can be based at South Mimms, Dartford, or Leatherhead and will involve regular travel across the M25 network. A company car or allowance is provided.
CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25, the busiest motorway in Europe. Careful, efficient planning is vital to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure, in addition to ongoing maintenance.
The purpose of this role is to support the development, implementation, and monitoring of processes aimed at managing health, safety, and wellbeing risks across the project. This position underpins our commitment to being a safe and responsible business—for our people, supply chain partners, and the communities we serve.
What You’ll Be Doing
This role will primarily involve:
Providing day-to-day management, guidance, support, and mentoring to HSW Advisors
Acting as a visible champion for HSW, engaging with operatives and managers
Overseeing implementation of organisational HSW standards locally and feeding back to HSW Managers on improvements or conflicts
Monitoring the delivery of the communications strategy and reporting on effectiveness
Supporting the delivery of HSW training aligned to project needs
Conducting targeted HSW inspections and supply chain audits, ensuring timely action
Managing your diary and stakeholder engagement to plan site visits and HSW conversations
Preparing and presenting reports on inspection findings and tracking follow-up actions
Representing the HSW function during meetings and calls
Reviewing work activities against safety systems and providing documented advice
Leading and supporting incident investigations and ensuring effective resolution
Who We’re Looking For
Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., IOSH)
Professional health and safety qualification (minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent)
A valid CSCS card
A clean, full UK driving licence
Experience managing a team of HSW Advisors
Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital platforms for data analysis and presentation
Site-based construction experience
Experience in highways construction/maintenance
Previous experience working within a joint venture environment
About Us
CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.
At Balfour Beatty, we are committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. We believe this not only reflects our values but also strengthens our business.
To support this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan that outlines proactive and measurable actions we’re taking. You can read it in full at: www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
We are proud members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and Women into Construction. In 2020, we also signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter, pledging sustainable actions on Black inclusion.
As a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence’s Employer Recognition Scheme, we actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are dedicated to removing barriers and offering interviews to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum role requirements. Learn more at: Disability Confident
* Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.
* Energising: Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards and continuous improvement.
* Challenging: seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.
* Challengeable: Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement.
* Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.
Location:
This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.
Note to all internal CPS employees:
If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk
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