Shea Apprentice

We’re looking for a Safety, Health, Environmental and Assurance (SHEA) Apprentice to join our Kier Utilities team. Within this role, you can enjoy flexible working, gaining a recognised qualification, work on exciting projects and even more.

**Location**: Flexible, nationwide - remote working available, with travel across country

**Contract**: Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

**Responsibilities**

As a SHEA Apprentice, you’ll be working within the Kier Utilities team, supporting them in ensuring the highest possible standards of SHEA responsibility are implemented across the business.

Your day to day will include:

- Actively promoting safety, health, and welfare, leading and setting good examples to employees and stakeholders
- Assist the operational teams in developing risk assessments and safe systems of work
- Ensuring all accidents, incidents, and near misses, are reported quickly and are also effectively investigated
- Support management teams in the development of health and safety related documents

Alongside your role, you will also study for a **Level 3 Safety, Health and Environmental Technician **qualification with support from our experienced teams - giving you the practical skills and expertise to excel in your career.

**What are we looking for?**

This role of SHEA Apprentice is great for you if:

- You can work collaboratively within a team and communicate effectively
- Possess great verbal and written communication skills
- Have great time management skills and can work to your own initiative

**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
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- A fantastic matched pension scheme

And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.

**Who is Kier?**

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

**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. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.

Closing Date: 17 February 2023

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