Health and Safety Lead in Peterborough

Circa £70,000 (depending on skills and experience) + Car Allowance

Location: Flexible — based at one of our sites in Lincoln, Grantham, Huntingdon, Peterborough or Cambridge

Anglian Water embraces a flexible working approach. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working, with an average of 3/4 days per week onsite across the Anglian Water region. At the heart of everything we do, with population growth of around 700,000 expected across our region and increasing demand from businesses, we play a vital role in enabling sustainable growth.

The role is responsible for making tangible and realistic recommendations to improve health and safety performance in IOS, in line with the latest legal guidance. The role reports into Capital Delivery Safety Business Partner but also works as a member of the IOS Management Team, advising Directors and Senior Managers on all aspects of health, safety, wellbeing and environment. This is a unique leadership role with influence across Alliance Directors, senior managers, front-line leaders, and partner contractors — helping shape strategy, ensuring compliance, and advancing Anglian Water’s vision for safety excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strong client-side support on Health and Safety in a construction function.
• Support IOS teams to develop and agree health and safety targets and outcome measures and identify the long-term strategy in line with Safer Every Day.
• Implement an assurance process to demonstrate compliance to the statutory Health and Safety requirements relevant to all IOS activity and provide information for continuous improvement.
• Lead on the identification of any improvements required to Health and Safety policies and procedures, working with the Central Safety Team to have these incorporated into the AW Safety Management System.
• Bring insights and ideas to challenge the thinking about how the partners within IOS can influence areas with health and safety shortcomings but also highlight and share areas of best practice.
• Ensure that your team of Health and Safety Advisors carry out active management, safety audits and inspections in line with set targets, ensuring that follow up actions are correctly recorded and acted upon in a timely manner.
• Provide visible leadership, and targeted individual coaching and development, to your team of Safety Advisors, building their capability, skills and experience, so they can deliver excellent standards of health and safety.
• Develop and implement an environmental management strategy for IOS that aligns with AWS sustainability objectives and legal requirements.

Role Requirements:

• Experience in a senior Health & Safety role.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence Directors and senior managers.
• Experience working with partner organisations and differing safety management systems.
• Excellent communication skills — written, verbal, and interpersonal.
• Proactive, analytical mindset with the ability to challenge constructively.

We value diversity of background, experience, and perspective. New ways of thinking help us transform how we work and better represent the customers and communities we serve. Even if this exact role isn’t the right fit, your application could open doors to other opportunities across the organisation.

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

If you need any support, please reach out to our team at resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk. To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV; we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.

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Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.