Senior Health and Safety Advisor

Location: Creyke Beck to South Humber (Yorkshire to Humber)

Sector Health and Safety Role Senior Executive

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Join us in shaping the future of the UK's energy infrastructure! Laing O'Rourke is delivering the Great Grid Upgrade Partnership, a landmark initiative to modernise and expand the electricity transmission network - critical to achieving net zero and integrating renewable energy.

We're seeking a Senior Health & Safety Advisor to advise and champion Health and Safety across complex, high-voltage projects. You will facilitate and coach operational teams on Inclusion and Well-being. As Senior Health and Safety Advisor you will provide local advice and support managers and staff to fulfil their health and safety responsibilities demanded by the business.

What You'll Do

• Lead and inspire health, safety, and environmental excellence across the projects
• Coach and mentor operational teams to embed inclusive safety practices.
• Challenge the status quo - move away from bureaucracy and towards meaningful engagement.
• Drive innovation and adopt cutting-edge safety solutions.
• Influence leadership and act as a trusted advisor for compliance and cultural change.

What We're Looking For

• Level 4 qualification minimum + membership of a relevant professional body.
• Strong technical knowledge in occupational health, environmental, and safety risk management.
• Exceptional coaching, influencing, and communication skills.
• A positive mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

About Us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality - this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Diversity & Inclusion

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommittees include Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad, LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders – We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering with Even Break to have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards and Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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