HSEQ Advisor

As an HSEQ Advisor, you will support a number of projects to meet the requirements of the Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality Management systems.  You will assist the site teams and managers through your inspections by recognising hazards and seeking to minimise risks whilst creating, maintaining, and improving the health, safety, environmental and quality standards. You will champion HSEQ initiatives in the workplace whilst ensuring that legislation is adhered to.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the provision of Health & well-being within the business, under the direction of the HSEQ Manager
Support the communication and promotion of the monthly themes.
Promote the value of occupational health at a local level
Provide consistent and accurate HSEQ advice to employees
Provide support to regions on HSEQ initiatives
Provide support on HSEQ issues/problems
Contribute to general communications at a local level
Produce and communicate HSEQ alerts following incidents and poor-quality standards to promote learning and prevention and continual improvement
Undertake timely investigations
Keep local and corporate management informed on the status
Identify root causes
Produce safety alerts as above
Monitoring, verifying & reporting HSEQ statistics for regions every month as directed.
Monitoring, verifying & reporting HSEQ statistics for regions monthly as directed.
Log all significant PI’s, Minor Injuries, RIDDORS onto Envoy completing the investigation (for significant PI’s, RIDDORS, LTi’s) and producing a safety alert within 4 working days.
Produce monthly HSEQ report for HSEQ Manager and Regional Lead incorporating locally agreed information and content.
Ensure internal and external safety alerts are cascaded within regions where appropriate
Monitor Regional HSEQ trends highlighting areas for improvement and supporting Regional Leads on improvement deliverables.
Produce and cascade monthly PI posters with ‘closing the loop’ information.
Approve Regional Vendors from the HSEQW perspective logging approval/feedback on the SharePoint system.
Provide monthly HSEQ statistics as directed by the Client.
Feedback updates for HSEQ matters detailing Incidents, front-foot activities, and High-Risk sites from the Region during weekly HSEQ team calls.
Update HSEQ Detailed Inspection Trending /Tracker Spreadsheet under the Regional folder on the shared safety drive.
Log Cardinal Rule non-conformances emanating from Detailed Inspections onto Envoy linking responsibility for closure. Include outstanding closures in a monthly report to the Regional Lead (see item 3).
Coordinate data and actions from contact with Enforcement Agencies ensuring that all contacts are logged on CF152-50 Enforcement Authorities Form and outstanding actions closed.
Provide support and advice in accordance with HSEQ Advisor responsibilities set out in CPR636 Process for Managing Facilities Management Pack
Complete HSEQ Detailed Inspections and HSEQ Advisory Notes per month (as agreed with HSE Manager)
Support regions in delivering outputs from Annual Be Healthy Be Safe Plans and provide a monthly progress update.
Review weekly Positive Intervention Reporting from regions and determine root causes & Front Foot actions
Support Line Managers with ‘Back to Work’ risk assessments where people fit with restrictions
Complete initial incident reports within 24 hours & root cause investigation report within 7 days of the incident. All incidents to be recorded on Envoy
Support Expectant Mother risk assessments
Provide support for New Staff on HSEQ Management System Onboarding within 1st month of employment.
Provide Internal Auditor direction and support on Regional Audits to maintain the internal audit scheduleKey Relationships:
HSEQ Director
HSEQ Manager
Lead Environmental Advisor
HSEQ Systems & Audit Manager
Quality Coach
Internal Auditor
Contracts Managers
Operations Manager
Regional Manager
Regional DirectorPerson Specification:
The successful candidate is likely to meet all of the following criteria:
Essential
NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent as a minimum but ideally IOSH
CEnv or equivalent as a minimum but ideally associate IEMA
Client facing
Sound knowledge of quality controls associated with company work activities
Analytical skills to interpret detailed information and regulations
High standard of written English
Good communication skills, including a professional telephone manner
People skills – ability to liaise with staff/operatives of all levels within Barhale
Excellent use of MS Office – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Effective communicator with strong presentation and report-writing skills
CSCS Safety Professional card
Able to work as a member of a team, but capable of working alone to tight deadlines as appropriate Pride - sets own high-quality standards, e.g., attention to detail
Passion for Health, Safety, Environment & Quality
Lead by/set a good example.Desirable
Extensive HSEQ experience within a civil engineering environment, experience in the rail sector
Level 3 AET or PTTLSBenefits:
As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes a range of benefits.
5% Company pension contribution
Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
Single person’s private medical cover
Permanent Health Cover
Company Profit Share Scheme
Company car / or car allowance (Dependent on position)
Career Development and ongoing training
Staff Referral Scheme
25 days annual leave with additional loyalty days (Full-Time equivalent)
Volunteering Scheme
Environmental and Social Value initiativesAbout Barhale:
Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor. While we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several construction industry sectors has enabled us to expand our skillset and become one of the largest privately-owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.
What we do
We provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors. 
Water
Transport
Energy
Built EnvironmentWe also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including.
Tunnelling
MEICA capabilities
In-house design
A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)Who we are?
Barhale operates as a tier-1 partner for blue-chip, regulated, and private clients. We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances and on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity, and Pride.
Our People
We employ a direct workforce of over 1,000 employees nationwide. We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.  
Our commitment to career progression, personal development, innovation, collaborative working, diversity and Inclusion, health and wellbeing and work-life balance is what makes us a Gold Investors in People Company

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