Working here isn't just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we'll reward you with a range of benefits that recognize great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.
About us
We design, build and maintain the UK's utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.
We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water.
About the role
The HSE Advisor role reports directly to the Lead HSE Advisor while working very closely with the local account leads and team. You will be responsible for creating local strategy that feeds into the wider department. This role will look after our Severn Trent Water account, it is a hybrid position with working from home and on-site, we are open to candidates based in The Midlands area as your head office will be either Telford or Coventry.
Some of your day-to-day responsibilities include:
1. Providing professional advice, challenge, and intervention regarding health and safety matters to account personnel - predominantly operations managers, supervisors, and operatives.
2. Conduct audits and inspections in accordance with the account audit plan.
3. Assisting the contract leadership team monitor health and safety performance.
4. Maintaining dialogue with client health and safety practitioners on day-to-day operational safety and strategic matters.
5. Assisting and prompting effective incident reporting and updates in line with company, legal and client requirements.
6. Overseeing the reviews of task risk assessments and safe working practices documented in the method statements.
The skills/qualifications we look for
* NEBOSH Qualification
* Environmental Awareness qualification is not essential but desirable.
* Good interpersonal and management skills.
* Good IT skills.
* Construction/Civils experience.
What we can offer
Working here isn't just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we'll reward you with a range of benefits that recognize great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. You can also get involved in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.
We offer a competitive salary that is based on proven skills and experience. Hard work is celebrated and rewarded. We recognize that one size doesn't fit all, so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
* Min. 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays (option to buy more).
* Company car or car allowance.
* Company pension scheme.
* Life assurance.
* A selection of lifestyle benefit options.
* Financial wellbeing program.
* Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues.
* We love to give back, so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.
We are an equal opportunities employer
We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages, and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we're making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.
What next
We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognize talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of the recruitment process.
If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.
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