Student She Advisor

**We have a great opportunity for a Student SHE Advisor to join our Transportation division here at Costain, working on the M6 Smart Motorway project between Wigan and Warrington on a 8 week Fixed Term Contract.**

**About Costain**
Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, de-carbonising and delivering increased efficiency.

Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements.

We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

**About the project**
The M6 between junctions 21a and 26 is a key 16.4km strategic route carrying around 120,000 vehicles daily between Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire, and Greater Manchester. Congestion and unreliable journey times are currently experienced at busy periods and traffic is predicted to grow. The scheme will relieve congestion and smooth the flow of traffic, improving safety and journey times.

The Smart motorway solution is a technology-driven approach to tackling the most congested parts of the motorway network, improving journey reliability by controlling the flow and speed of traffic. They also support the economy by providing much-needed capacity on the busiest motorways, while maintaining safety for road users and those who work on the roads.

The design features of the scheme include embankment regrades and retaining solutions including crib walls, king post walls and soil nailing verge and centre reservation drainage, deltabloc concrete safety barrier and surfacing. Piled gantry bases, formwork, reinforcement and concrete works variable mandatory speed limits.

Driver information, including lane availability, provided through a mixture of gantries and signs (cantilever, super cantilever and superspan). Queue detection and automatic signalling system, which provides queue protection and congestion management. comprehensive low light pan-tilt-zoom CCTV coverage. refuge areas where drivers can stop in an emergency.

**Responsibilities**:

- Working as part of a Framework/Project support to the Framework/Project SHE Manager in their role.
- Understand the Company Health & Safety and Environmental Policies and Procedures and statutory requirements as they affect the Project operations and ensure that the requirements are implemented
- Assist in providing operational and functional management with advice on the prevention of accidents, ill health, environmental incidents and the practical implementation of the company's SHE policies
- Assist in providing operational and functional management with advice for obtaining legal consents, licences and exemptions such as discharge consents, abstraction licences and waste management licences
- Assist the Project Manager or Framework/Project SHE/E Manager in preparing and developing the Framework/Project Health, Safety and Environmental Management Plan ('HASEMP') & coordinator reviews
- Undertake site SHE inspections as directed
- Assist where necessary with tenders
- When directed, assist with the preparation of SHE risk assessments and Method Statements
- Assist with the monitoring and reporting of Project SHE Performance as directed
- Assist in the investigation of accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses and other incidents as directed
- Assist in the preparation and implementation of SHE training courses, as directed
- Actively promote the company 'BE SAFE', 'BE HEALTHY' and 'SAVE IT' campaigns in addition to the implementation of best practice principles across the business, to include stakeholders such as the supply chain
- Set standards and lead by example in the management of SHE
- Maintain own level of knowledge and competency in relation to SHE management and responsibilities including appropriate qualification and professional
- Obtain competency cards in line with company Competence Card Compliance policy, e.g. CSCS / CCNSG

**Essential (minimum required)**
- Bsc Health and Safety Management
- Under graduate study or equivalent diploma that gains IOSH Technical Safety Practitioner Status

**Desirable (the ideal)**
- A degree with an element of Environmental management preferred
- CMIOSH & AIEMA

**About Costain**

At Costain, we help to improve people's lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet to thrive.

We work together to shape, create, and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the UK's infrastructure ecosystem across energy, water, transportation and defence markets.Through our collaboration with customers, partners, communities, and wider industry we will deliver an infrastructure fit for a better future.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:
**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website: