Health & Safety Senior Advisor

What you’ll be responsible for

As a Senior H&S Advisor, you will be responsible for supporting operational teams across South and Mid Wales Regions. Regular travel throughout these areas, as well as to the Head Office in Cardiff, will be required. The role also includes deputising for the Head of Operational Safety when necessary and mentoring of H&S advisors and technician post holders. 

Your responsibilities include: 

1. Lead and support assigned business areas to effectively manage health, safety and wellbeing to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and internal standards, whilst encouraging continuous improvement.  Provision of risk management and specialist health, safety and wellbeing advice for line managers and employees within allocated operational business and geographical areas. Provide support on specific operational health and safety issues.  
2. Act as trusted advisor to Heads of Service and taking the lead on specific health and safety risks and project work.  Directing colleagues to undertake actions linked to specific issues and projects.  Lead initiatives to improve health and safety performance, including major risk reviews, safety culture programmes, and the coordination of Health & Safety Champions. Provide key specialist H&S advice and support the health safety and wellbeing improvement forums and consultation groups.
3. Providing safety information and support for the selection, and appointment of operational contractors.  Support the management of construction activities in line with the Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations.  Developing and carrying out health and safety site and system audits and inspections with internal and external partners, e.g., to support the annual major risk review, as part of contractor tender processes.
4. Developing and reviewing diverse technical company risk assessments, COSHH assessments and safe working procedures. Take a lead role in process safety management advice, particularly at high-risk sites such as COMAH and Advanced Anaerobic Digestion facilities.
5. Acting as contract manager for health and safety-related services, including occupational health provision, DSE equipment, and H&S software systems. Oversee budgets for specific projects.  
6. Lead and support the development and delivery of specified health, safety and wellbeing policies, procedures and improvement activities. This includes the development, review and delivery of health and safety training sessions and workshops.  Work with internal and external providers to develop training courses and materials.
7. Provide expert support in investigating significant health and safety incidents, ensuring timely production of reports, identification of root causes, implementation of business improvements, and compliance with reporting obligations to enforcement authorities within required deadlines.
8. Leading and delivering health and safety communications and specific health and safety awareness events and activities, e.g., Health and Safety campaigns, STEP and TRACA programmes Developing health and safety bulletins, alerts and toolbox talks and where necessary H&S films.
9. Development and use of bespoke health and safety software systems. This includes drafting guidance, supporting teams in the use of the system and running regular reports. Prepare and present reports for senior level meetings. Manage and develop health and safety performance reporting systems and produce business reports.
10. Represent the organisation in interactions with regulators, contractors, and other external stakeholders, fostering positive relationships and promoting the health and safety profession. Keep up to date with new technologies and industry best practice. Support Water UK specialist H&S groups. 

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• All levels of management within Welsh Water
• All colleagues within Welsh Water
• Temporary workers engaged by Welsh Water
• Partner organisations (especially capital partners and their subcontractors)

External

• External regulatory bodies e.g. HSE, NRW and Fire Authorities
• Industry best practice forums and professional H&S networks
• Occupational Health service providers
• External Contractors

About you

Essential Qualifications
•    Qualified to NEBOSH level 6 Diploma or equivalent.
•    Full UK driver’s licence with the ability to travel as the job requires.

Desirable qualification

•    NEBOSH Process Safety Certificate (essential for the role, training to obtain this will be arranged if the candidate does not already have this qualification).

Essential Experience
•    Experience providing effective health, safety and wellbeing advisory service within a technical discipline, e.g., Utilities, Construction, Engineering and COMAH / CDM understanding.
•    Experience of producing clear and effective written documents for a varied audience, including technical disciplines.
•    Experience of delivering presentations and effective facilitation skills.
•    Proven experience of delivering projects to completion in a timely and accurate manner, to a set budget.

Essential Knowledge & Skills
•    Skllied in building relationships and demonstrable skill negotiating and influencing both internally and externally and ability to show interpersonal sensitivity.
•    Ability to work independently and as part of a team. 
•    Ability to prioritise workload and conflicting demands whilst being able to ensure customer satisfaction.
•    Ability to think creatively and develop/drive improvement activities.
•    The ability to gather understand and analyse critical information quickly and make timely, practical and effective decisions.
•    Confident and authoritative with professional credibility.
•    IT literate – familiar with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Good to know

• Location is flexible within the South Wales and Hereford area. 
• This role includes car allowance. 

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
• Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Many more can be found on our website. 

Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business.

For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject to all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.