Safety Lead

Up to £83k depending on skills and experience per annum

Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent

Location: Peterborough

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office/site. Your based location would be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough but there would be travel across the Anglian Water region as part of your role.

Refreshingly different careers

We have an exciting new opportunity available for a well-established Safety Lead to join the Anglian Water Safety team working on Anglian Water’s multi-billion pound Reservoirs Programme.

These schemes in the Fens and Lincolnshire, are the UK's largest water projects under the water sector regulator Ofwat/RAPID’s national Strategic Resource Option programme. Together they will secure water supplies for future generations across the East of England. Both are Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NCIPs) requiring development consent order (DCO) planning approvals and the establishment of new delivery contract arrangements with associated project financing.

As an accomplished safety professional, you will take the lead in driving safety and wellbeing initiatives across these two multi-billion-pound Programmes. Your primary focus will be to ensure the successful delivery of key business objectives in alignment with Anglian Water’s Safer Every Day Strategy and its strong safety culture.

As part of the Reservoirs Programme leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in fostering collaborative partnerships to embed safety priorities and support the successful construction of the Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

- Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

What you’ll be doing:

- Provide strategic advice, leadership and assurance on health, safety and wellbeing issues to enable decision making and direction.
- Lead ‘project’ health and safety professionals (including those from partners and supply chain) in ensuring health, safety and wellbeing processes are in place for all aspects of programme activity which will include (but is not limited to); on-boarding and induction, large-scale site survey and ground investigation works, and enabling works facilitation/construction activities.
- You will be responsible for providing health and safety expertise into the main contractor procurement exercises and contractor assessments.
- Lead the development of common health and safety standards and management systems ensuring these are aligned with the principles of Safer Every Day.
- Work with leadership teams to develop and agree health, safety and wellbeing targets and metrics and provide reports on performance progress to drive continuous improvements.
- Assure that Client duties under CDM Regulations are discharged.
- Assurance against CDM Regulation 4 obligations.
- Provision of safety and wellbeing support and promotion of AWs wider strategic guidance to Strategic Asset Management’s development programme based on the principles of Safer Every Day.

What does it take to be successful?
- Extensive experience in a senior health & safety role
- Relevant Safety qualifications or certifications including NEBOSH, CSP or a Health and Safety related Masters, Degree or Diploma
- Proven experience of working on major/mega infrastructure project development or experience on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) under the Development Consent Order (DCO) regime)
- Experience of proactively driving a positive safety culture within supply chains
- Experience of emergency response and crisis planning.
- Ability to produce documentation and reports for a range of audiences (both strategic and tactical)
- Experience of strong stakeholder management and business partnering relationships
- Ability to work with and influence directors and senior leaders to ensure the adoption of a leading health and safety culture
- Full UK Driving Licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water:
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