Sheq Advisor

About The RoleTo deliver and maintain a positive Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture throughout the fibre build workforce across two operating businesses. Ensuring the effective delivery of associated management strategies / action plans to exceed client expectations and prevent incidents, injuries, work-related illness, damage to underground, overhead apparatus and domestic services and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions.

**Be responsible for**:
Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.

Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:

- Decarbonising our operations and services to our clients
- Environmental performance
- Adopting world class standards
- Monitoring and controlling sustainability and environmental risk

Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
- Produce SHEQ performance reports as required by both clients, divisional and group functions and present at meetings as required.
- Collaborate with the SHEQ Co-ordinator to ensure a fully competent workforce.
- Collaborate with the internal SMART Awards accreditation team to ensure job role compliance against fully accredited workforce matrices.
- Ensure all personnel receive the necessary induction / onboarding prior to being put to work.
- Capture and reporting of Scope 1,2 and 3 Carbon emissions for onward reporting into the SHEQ Manager and Head of SHEQ.
- Capture and collate waste management data derived from sub-contractor organisations for 2nd party assurance (chain of custody).
- Collaborate with drivers to support the management of Occupational Road Risk and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions and unreported vehicle damage.
- Where necessary, create and distribute SHEQ related promotional material, alerts, bulletins, and briefings to increase awareness and communicate lessons learned.
- Ensure that incident investigations are to an exemplary standard and act as lead investigator were required.
- Ensure all associated guidance documents, standards, and specifications applicable to our operations are accessible and readily available where required.
- Provide effective delivery of health surveillance requirements (e.g., HAVS, Climbers Medical, Face-Fit Testing of RPE, Pre-employment screening, Drugs and Alcohol Testing etc.)
- Support the group supply chain control team in the completion and submission of all sub-contractor SHEQ evaluations to ensure that they progress efficiently.

**Skills and Knowledge**
- A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all aspects associated with safety, health, environmental and quality risk management.
- Demonstrable experience of recognised best practice, risk management techniques and management principles.
- A comprehensive knowledge of current safety, health and environmental legislation, management, and standards.
- Ability to problem solve and implement solutions to mitigate risk.
- An effective advisor with highly developed skills regarding stakeholder engagement and experience of liaison and influence at management level.
- Ability to interpret and provide authoritative advice on safety, health, environmental and quality risk management issues.
- Proven, demonstrable experience in a similar role, ideally gained within the Telecoms sector.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with positive outcomes.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate (or equivalent) Working towards NEBOSH Diploma.
- Affiliate Member (AIOSH) (Internal Grade 3) ideally working towards Technical Member (TECH IOSH) or equivalent professional body grade.
- Technical Member IOSH (Tech IOSH) (Internal Grade 4), ideally working towards Certified Membership (Cert IOSH) or equivalent professional body grade.
- Up to date CPD.
- Experience of complying with and working to an externally audited management standard including ISO 45001, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001. Along with but not limited to Achilles, Carbon Reduce, NICEIC, Safe Contractor, FIRAS etc.
- Recent proven experience of working in a SHEQ Advisor position.
- Knowledge and experience in Streetworks, working at height, confined spaces, and Construction Design Management
- About The Company**Why choose us?**

We promise development and reward opportunities for those who have the passion, enthusiasm and work ethic to harness them. Our benefits include:

- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 4% matched pension scheme
- 2 x salary life assurance
- Access to our staff discount por