Trainee Health & Safety Advisor in Bracknell

GHPC is interested to hear from enthusiastic, answer-seeking and motivated graduates and trainees looking to develop a career in health & safety or construction, who would be interested in joining our team in Bracknell, Berkshire to learn all about construction health & safety and give you a launchpad to your career, with training and mentoring included. We will teach you as much as you want to learn - in return, we value loyalty, hard work, team players and a flexible approach.

Who are we?

GHPC Group Ltd is a multi-disciplinary construction consultancy covering the whole of the UK. We offer an integrated development solution to the construction industry from an experienced team of Chartered Surveyors, Principal Designers, CDM Experts and Defects Claims Experts. Our extensive professional expertise allows us to have a very realistic view of the development process; as such, we are trusted partners to many UK based developers and clients, able to provide our clients with a value-added, quality service for a flexible & workable price, allowing them to use us as much as they need. We are committed to being our best, every single day!

The Role

We are looking to invest in graduates and trainees who want to launch a career in construction health & safety, and would welcome applications from committed, curious and enthusiastic individuals! Working in the CDM and Health & Safety Team, as a Graduate / Trainee Health & Safety Advisor you will provide day-to-day project support to the CDM and H&S Advisory Team, which will include getting to know how we work, gaining an understanding of the construction industry and what our clients do, and on a practical level will give you a lot of technical and administrative experience in compiling and formatting key project Health & Safety documents, which are so crucial to keeping our company and our clients on track and legally compliant.

This is an entry-level position, so you don’t need to have any experience. This role has been designed to give you a launchpad to your career in health & safety and construction – it will give you the opportunity to develop your career with GHPC over the next few years, with relevant training, experience and industry courses, engagement with senior experts in their field, and in-depth learning opportunities to ensure that you can progress towards a senior position within our team of experts.

You will probably have a university degree, but we also welcome stand-out candidates who have some demonstrable formal education with good grades for English & Maths at least. Enthusiastic communicators who can write and speak fluently in English, with a good vocabulary are really essential for this post – you’ll not only need to regularly get in touch with clients and other project contacts by telephone and email, but you’ll also have to develop a great relationship with the rest of the CDM and Health & Safety Team, asking questions, trying to find out as much as you can, keeping your mentors up to date with task progress, and generally taking a keen interest in the work that the company does.

A keen eye for detail is absolutely essential – you need to be able to spot hazards, problem-solve and identify crucial information so that we can give the very best advice to our clients. Taking pride in what you do will go hand-in-hand with this, so being able to accept and learn from feedback from your more experienced colleagues will be vital to help you progress.

Being experienced using computers, software and IT systems is really important in this role, a confident attitude to learning new processes is really going to help you develop here, and you may even have skills which can be developed in the wider team.

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You might not know much about it already, but you will be best suited to this role if you are curious and have a thirst for knowledge, respecting the experience of team members and clients who have been working in the construction industry for years already, and just generally wanting to learn as much as you possibly can to progress your career and benefit the company.

Although you will be mentored by skilled team members, you will thrive if you are self-motivated and able to plan your work well, always looking for new opportunities when you can demonstrate that you are capable of increased responsibilities. Flexibility is going to be really important in this role too, because that is how you will learn as much as possible, so being open to new and different ways of doing things and trusting your mentors to guide you in the right direction will set you up really well.

This position is office based in Bracknell. This will help you to get the best out of your trainee position and receive the best possible training & mentoring. It also gives you the opportunity to develop important professional and social relationships with other team members, which will be crucial for your career progression.

Physical Requirements

Part of the benefit of this role is that it will get you out onto construction sites so that you can see what goes on and how things work. This may mean that you will need to be physically able to move around a construction site safely, climbing ladders, accessing scaffolding and potentially working at height. GHPC will of course supply you with all the PPE you need to do this safely, you just need to supply common sense, a careful approach and the energy you need to get around site! If mobility restrictions mean that you would be better suited to an office-based position, this role is still for you if you meet the other requirements, so please don’t be put off by the physical requirements of the role - we will adapt your role to suit.

Anything else?

As a professional business, we value people who present themselves to work in a smart and business appropriate way – we do of course welcome individuality and expression, and we try to balance our expectations with client and partner requirements and what is appropriate in a working environment. If you have a full clean driving licence it will be an immediate advantage to you in this post – since it will mean you are able to get out on-site much quicker, which may help you to progress more quickly. Don’t worry if you don’t have a licence though, there is still plenty of learning and progression from an office-based approach, but you might decide you want to work towards getting your licence anyway.

This post offers a significant opportunity for professional development and career progression, in a supportive and collaborative working environment. We will give you the opportunity to develop your career with GHPC over the next few years, with relevant training, experience and industry courses, engagement with senior experts in their field, and in-depth learning opportunities to ensure that you can progress towards being a senior position within our team of experts.

Don't be put off if you don't meet 100% of the requirements above! If you're not sure whether you could be considered for the position, send us your CV and tell us a bit about yourself anyway - we are always keen to hear from people who have the drive and ambition to take control of their own careers and bring loyalty, commitment and quality to GHPC.