Safety Advisor

We're looking for a **Safety Advisor **to join our major projects team in Sellafield, based in Seascale, Cumbria. Within this role you can enjoy 26 days annual leave, sharesave scheme, family friendly policies and even more.

**Location**: Seascale, Cumbria
**Contract**: Permanent
**Salary**: Competitive + _Benefits_

**Responsibilities**

As a Safety Advisor, you'll be working within the SHE team, supporting them with safety, health and welfare across the project, providing assurance to management and clients that works are completed in accordance with SHE legislation. Providing expert advice and coaching to the delivery team, driving improvements in performance excellence, always looking to be better.
- Drive to deliver continual SHE improvements across the Business Unit
- Ensure Kier’s SHE procedures are implemented to allow all relevant legislation to be complied with.
- Alignment and compliance with client SHEW Code of Practice
- Provide support and advice to site and management teams on SHE issues including best practice and innovation
- Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are correctly reported and lead and support to investigations in accordance with Kier SHE policies and procedures

**Who are we looking for?**

This role of Safety Advisor is great for you if:

- Demonstrable experience within the construction/Infrastructure industry with a minimum of NEBOSH construction certificate, hold or working towards IOSH Diploma/Grad IOSH.
- Previous exposure to Environmental Management and Sustainability principles and have a good practical understanding of the principles of SHE legislation,
- Ability to work on own initiative and good time management skills

**Benefits at Kier**

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more.
- professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
- pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
- Kier rewards - You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.
- employee referral scheme - refer a friend or family member to work for Kier

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

**Closing Date**: 20 July 2023