Brief Description
Are you passionate about health, safety, and well-being?
We are seeking a Workforce Health, Safety & Environment Advisor to support our East Coast Route teams in promoting a positive safety culture.
The Workforce Health, Safety & Environment Advisor role focuses on providing expert guidance and support to our East Coast Route Maintenance, Operations, and Telecomms teams. Key responsibilities include fostering positive cultural and behavioural changes in health and well-being, alongside evaluating and improving site health and safety management systems.
We are seeking someone with excellent communication skills, a proactive mindset, and a strong desire to support others and develop effective solutions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate collaborative behaviours, an eagerness to learn, and the ability to implement positive changes in a dynamic environment.
This role involves applying safety expertise specifically to railway operations, with a strong emphasis on ensuring effective management of health and safety on sites. Key focuses include supporting and developing team members while assisting managers in implementing practical, risk-based safety solutions.
This role is a unique opportunity to combine technical expertise with people-focused problem-solving, ensuring practical, risk-based safety solutions in railway operations.
If you’re proactive, solution-oriented, and passionate about safety, this is your opportunity to make an impact.
This role typically involves a 35-hour workweek and is primarily site-based. As the railway operates 24/7, applicants must demonstrate flexibility to accommodate operational needs.
We have two opportunities available—one in Doncaster and one in Peterborough!
Interviews will begin the week of April 28. You will be contacted once the advertisement closes.
About the role (External)
Key Accountabilities:
1.Provide support, coaching and guidance to the Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery team for issues of workforce health, safety and environment.
2.Provide support in the collation of workforce health, safety and environment data.
3.Monitor and analyse workforce health, safety and environment data for trends, produce reports and make recommendations for corrective actions.
4.Identify health, safety & environmental key risks and make recommendations for control measures.
5.Support the implementation of national and local programmes and initiatives to improve workforce health, safety and environmental control.
6.Facilitate the Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery team in their relationships via local safety forums/groups with Trade Union Safety Representatives and external safety and environmental bodies.
7.Provide guidance to the Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Manager and team in the investigation and reporting of accidents and incidents and the Formal Investigation Process.
8.Facilitate arrangements for safety and environmental audits.
9.Coordinate and monitor safety tours and staff surveillance for the team.
10.Undertake a sample check each period of safe system of work plans to monitor compliance with the Safe System of Work Planning Arrangements. Take action to address issues as identified.
11.Take and active role in developing the Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery team in matters of workforce health, safety and the environment.
Essential
·National Examination Board in Occupational Safety & Health (NEBOSH) Certificate
·Knowledge of safety and compliance management processes
·Knowledge of relevant standards and procedures
·Knowledge of environmental management system
·Knowledge of operational railway environment
·Analytical capability
·Local Accident & Incident Investigation
·Knowledge of coaching techniques
·Good interpersonal, influencing, communication and organisation skills
Desirable
·NEBOSH diploma
·Membership of a relevant professional body
·Institute of Environmental Management Award (IEMA)