Health and Safety Advisor

Salary

**£44,308 - £55,385 (depending on experience) plus car allowance**
- Location

**Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex**

**About the role**

**Health and Safety (H&S) Advisor**

**Full time permanent - 36 hrs per week (flexible working arrangements will be considered)**

**Base Location: Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex**

**Salary: From £44,308 - £55,385 (depending on experience) + car allowance**

**A full valid UK driving licence is essential for this role.**

**About the role**

We’ve an amazing opportunity to join us as a H&S Advisor within our Health, Safety and Security team here at Northumbrian Water. You’ll be a key enabler and supporter in delivering our aspiration of having a world class safety culture, enabling our employees, contractors, customers, and visitors to go home safe every day

Working closely with various operational teams, you will ensure practical processes are in place for employees to understood and follow. You will carry out assurance visits across operational teams and contractors to measure compliance.

You’ll be ensuring the language and approach used is consistent with driving a positive, customer focused world class safety culture within a learning organisation, along with investigating accidents and incidents, providing detailed root cause analysis (RCA) and learnings to assist the business in preventing recurrences.

You’ll be working with stakeholders ensuring that health and safety initiatives enhance and compliment the wider businesses strategy including attendance at allocated business area meetings and providing business and local updates on health and safety performance. We’re also looking for you to be undertaking site visits/audits/inspections to measure compliance and governance. Understanding from an employee’s perspective why activities can deviate from expected performance and processes.
- This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test._
- Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date._
- Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked_
- Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment_

**About you**

We are seeking someone with a proactive attitude, strong work ethic and the ability to deal with a demanding workload to join the team and make a real difference. To have previous H&S experience within the construction industry is preferable. You’ll have or be willing to achieve NEBOSH Diploma or an equivalent H&S qualification, which will feed into attainment of Chartered status of IOSH (CMIOSH).

You’ll need a solution focused approach to problem solving and adopting a “one team” approach to achieve this. You’ll demonstrate an engaging communication style with an ability to work with all levels of the business. In addition, you will have proven ability to work collaboratively across the health and safety team and wider business functions.

We’re looking for you to be willing to learn new technical skills to enhance safety performance within the business, along with having a proven ability to, ‘think’, ‘feel’, ‘say’ and ‘do’, aligned to the safety culture aspiration and NWG vision and values in everything they do.

You’ll be open minded and willing to try new working methods and initiatives to improve safety, health, and wellbeing across the business, along with proven communication skills, able to present effectively and facilitate safety culture workshops and presentations.

We’re looking for you to be able to work independently and without direct supervision and line management and be able to deliver key department objectives and strategies, along with the ability to deal with managing change and a demanding workload.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

**About us**

Here at Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

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