Project Safety Advisor

What you'll do

As a Water Network Alliance (WNA) Project Safety Advisor you will lead and support the business to effectively manage health, safety and wellbeing and drive continuous improvement. You will provide specialist advice for key business areas and projects to ensure legal compliance and drive business efficiencies. Working alongside Line Managers, Safety Advisors & Technical Assistants you will provide an advisory support service for allocated business areas within Welsh Water.  You will undertake a programme of continual professional development to enhance health and safety knowledge and customer satisfaction. A key element of this role will be to develop positive relationships with key regulators, internal and external stakeholders and always be an ambassador for the health and safety profession.

The WNA is primarily focussed on the design, construction and maintenance of water distribution network, private pipes and associated assets. This includes a significant amount of work on pressurised pipes and requires a strong understanding of construction safety and the CDM Regulations.

What you’ll be responsible for

You will work in the Welsh Water Health and Safety team, specifically within the Water Network Alliance. Your line manager will be the WNA Health and Safety Manager who will provide support and leadership to you and the wider team. The position will work closely with the WNA senior leadership team and their managers who will project manage the delivery of the operational Construction activities.
 

• Lead and support assigned business areas to effectively manage health, safety and wellbeing and continuously improve.  Provision of risk management and health, safety and wellbeing advice for line managers and employees within allocated operational business areas and supporting on specialist operational health and safety issues.  
• Key contact for health and safety advice for the WNA Head of Service and taking the lead on specific health and safety issues and construction project work.  Directing colleagues to undertake actions linked to specific issues and projects.  
• Support the relevant operational and contract partner interfaces for health and safety advisory support services. Provide safety information and support for the selection, appointment and management of specified operational and capital contractors working for Welsh Water.  
• Develop positive relationships with key regulators and stakeholders and be an ambassador for the health and safety profession.
• Mentoring, coaching and supporting the Health and Safety Advisors and Technical Assistants/ administrators to provide health and safety and wellbeing advisory services to the business and delivering the strategic health, safety and wellbeing plan.
• Lead and support the development and delivery of specified health, safety and wellbeing policies, procedures and improvement activities.
• Provide specialist support for the Investigation of significant health and safety incidents and facilitate the production of reports and identification of root cause and business improvements within the required timescale.
• Undertake continual professional development and keep up to date with new technologies and industry best practice.  
• 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.
• Developing health and safety bulletins, alerts and toolbox talks and where necessary H&S films.
• Developing and carrying out health and safety site and system audits and inspections with internal and external partners, e.g., to support internal risk reviews.
• Deputise for the Health and Safety Manager as required and provide cover for H&S team members when required.
• Supporting health safety and wellbeing improvement forums and consultation groups.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing arrangements in meeting the requirements of health and safety legislation and other agreed standards.  Manage and monitor progress against these standards.  
• Facilitate and coach operational teams on health, safety and wellbeing principles and tools to allow the teams to improve health and safety performance.
• Prepare and present reports for senior level meetings. Manage and develop health and safety performance reporting systems and produce business reports.
• Leading and delivering health and safety communications and specific health and safety awareness events and activities, e.g., Health and Safety campaigns.
• Reviewing diverse technical company risk assessments, COSHH assessments and safe working procedures.

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

Experience, Qualifications and Skills
 

• Qualified to NEBOSH Diploma level 6 or equivalent
• Experience providing health, safety and wellbeing advisory service within a technical discipline, e.g., Utilities, Construction, Engineering and CDM understanding.
• Experience in building relationships and demonstrable skill negotiating and influencing both internally and externally and ability to show interpersonal sensitivity
• Full driver’s license with the ability to travel as the job requires
• Experience of producing clear and effective written documents for a varied audience, including technical disciplines
• The ability to gather understand and analyse critical information quickly and make timely, practical and effective decisions
• Proven experience of delivering projects to completion in a timely and accurate manner
• NEBOSH Construction Certificate would be desirable

Good to know

Working hours are typically 9.00am-5.00pm weekdays.

Main base would be Cardiff/Newport – you will be required to visit areas such as Cardiff, Clydach and Mid Wales so the candidate would ideally need to be located around these areas. 
Hybrid working with approx. 3 days a week on site

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact:  david.nicholas@dwrcymru.com

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 here!  

 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
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 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.