Sheq Advisor

**Job Title **:SHEQ Advisor - North Region

**Location - ** Head office is based in Clevedon, with travel needed to various locations across the country.

**Employment type - **Permanent

**Hours - **37.5 hours
- Hydro International, a CRH Company, is a leading global provider of advanced products, services, and expertise to help municipal, industrial and construction customers to improve their water management processes, increase operational performance, and reduce environmental impact. With over 40 years of experience and a reputation for engineering excellence, businesses, and public bodies all over the world rely on our products, services, and integrated solutions to reduce flood risk, improve water treatment, and protect the environment from water pollution. We have a network of over 80 distribution partners and serve customers in more than 40 countries. As part of CRH Infrastructure Products, we are leading the water management industry with innovative, sustainable solutions and a safety-first mindset._

**Responsible for**:
**Promoting SHEQ understanding and building relationships with our employees and contractors at all levels, out on site, to ensure compliance across Hydro businesses, through conducting daily site inspections.**

**This position involves being on-site at least 3-4 times a week. If you have excellent communication and persuasion skills, along with enthusiasm, ambition, and a passion for fostering positive SHEQ behaviours, and if you are driven to motivate others proactively towards a positive health and safety culture on-site, we encourage you to apply.**

**It is crucial that you have the ability to engage colleagues, raise awareness, and secure commitment to SHEQ principles, as well as influence behavior change. This role requires collaborative working, so being a team player is essential, along with a solution-oriented approach.**

**This role is not office-based. You will work remotely, be home-based, and manage your own daily site visits with various teams around the UK including Scotland. You will complete reports and administrative work from home at least one day a week and occasionally attend team and business meetings in person at our locations around the UK and Scotland.**

**Must have**:

- Full driving license.
- Two plus years’ Health and Safety experience desirably within the water, engineering, fabrication industry, preferably clean/wastewater, water utilities or a similar. Understanding of the risks associated within these industries.
- NEBOSH General/Construction Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety.
- Working knowledge on the implementation of Health and Safety laws.
- Exposure to ISO standards and auditing (ISO 45001, 9001, 14001 etc).
- Experience with conducting on site ‘Boots on the Ground’ site inspections.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, who is a team player and can collaboratively support others, whilst forming good working relationships across all levels of the business and with external partners. Experienced with employee and contractor on site engagement. Solution orientated.
- Incident investigation experience.
- Experience of delivering inductions, behavioural safety programmes, in house training initiatives.
- Proficiency in Microsoft office, ability to prepare Excel spreadsheets, reports in Word and presentations in PowerPoint.

**Must be willing to**:

- This role requires frequent travel and overnight stays away from home, with weekly site visits throughout the UK including Scotland. The work will primarily be conducted on-site at various locations. Additionally, you will be expected to cover the workloads of other SHEQ Advisors and the SHEQ Manager when they are unavailable.

**Desirable qualifications**:

- NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate, or IEMA Environmental or equivalent.
- Understanding of Environment and Energy laws
- Experience of ISO 45001, 9001, 14001 and 50001.
- Quality auditing
- Energy management
- EUSR National Water Hygiene Training

**Key Duties**:
1. To perform duties in accordance with all applicable health and safety legislation, ensuring compliance.

2. Core duty - ‘Boots on the Ground’ - Conduct daily SHEQ site inspections within the UK including Scotland, ensuring adherence to established procedures, legislation. Identifying areas for improvement, whilst driving and actively promoting a positive and proactive safety culture across the organisation, though engaging, building relationships, advising, supporting, and mentoring the workforce. To be solution orientated and monitor the implementation of control measures identified on site and within our premises.

3. Be prepared to work in confined spaces and to work at height, as well as to travel to remote place to be with our employees out on site.

4. Support and mentor management and their teams out on site with their SHEQ compliance. Such as supporting them with their RAMS, safe systems of work, CDM, work activities etc.

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