Health & Safety Advisor

What you'll do

As a credible Health and Safety Advisor you will lead and support allocated areas of the  business to effectively manage health and safety and drive continuous improvement. Working alongside, mentoring and supporting Line Managers you will provide an advisory support service and will provide specialist advice for allocated business areas within Dŵr Cymru.  

You will be expected to 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 be an ambassador for the health and safety profession. This role will support the Water, Waste and Visitor Attraction areas of the business across West Wales as well as supporting H&S Communications and our annual awards and conference arrangements. 
 

What you’ll be responsible for

• 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 specific operational health and safety issues e.g. confined spaces, COSHH etc
• Key contact for health and safety advice for Heads of Service and line managers and supporting on specific health and safety issues and project work
• Provision of safety information and support for managing operational working for Welsh Water
• Working with and supporting the wider H&S Team to provide health and safety advisory services to the business and delivering the strategic health, safety and wellbeing plan
• 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
• Supporting teams to ensure data quality and timely production of reports
• Supporting the development, review and delivery of health and safety training
• Developing health and safety communications such as bulletins, alerts and toolbox talks
• Carrying out health and safety site and system audits and inspections
• Use of bespoke health and safety software systems
• Support the arrangements for the annual Welsh Water Health Safety and Wellbeing conference

Who you’ll work with

Internal

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

External

• External regulatory bodies e.g. HSE and Fire Authorities
• Industry best practice forums and professional H&S networks
   

About you

• Qualified to minimum NEBOSH Certificate level or equivalent. Actively participating in CPD. 
• Experience in a health and safety advisory role and delivering excellent customer service
• Experience in building relationships and demonstrable skill negotiating and influencing both internally and externally
• Experience of producing clear and effective written documents and IT Literate 
• Experience of delivering presentations and effective facilitation skills
• Experience of working in organisations with diverse risks
• Ability to travel as the job requires
   

Good to know

Working hours are typically 9.00am-5.00pm weekdays.

Main base would be South West – you will be required to visit areas such as Swansea, Carmarthen 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:  dean.baker@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.