Area Health in Bridgwater

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About the role

Our work matters to millions. It will matter to you too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as an Area Health & Safety Lead on Hinkley Point and you will be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.

About Hinkley Point C / MEH Alliance

The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy. Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UK's move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or 600 million tonnes over its 60-year lifespan.

What you will be doing:

• Provide H&S leadership across a significant scope of works including but not limited to Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC Alliance (MEHA) works with their designated area.
• Fully support the deputy Head of HSE by leading and ensuring exemplary MEH Alliance Health and Safety standards on the HPC project are consistently met.
• Manage a specific area within the MEH Alliance area management model.
• Manage a team of HSE Advisors in allocated area.
• Responsible for the deliverables of the allocated H&S Advisor field team.
• Support construction deliverables by advising the construction teams on best practice and assisting in the maintenance of the overall MEH Alliance HSE management system.
• Analysing information and trends from reports and observations and taking corrective measures prior to events occurring.
• Engage with Construction teams throughout the planning and delivery of the scope of works ensuring lessons learnt are actioned to provide the highest H&S performance.
• Ensure effective communication site monitoring of working practices of all MEHA employees and contract partners allocated to the area.
• Manage audit assurance programmes within respective area.
• Provide competent specialist advice on identified topics, subject to the roles holder's area of expertise.
• Champion the HPC Way including its pillars in all activities undertaken and play a key role in the MEHA integrated HSESS team.
• Ensure project and employee K.P.I's are managed across the team.
• Support other area Leads as required, also providing cover for holidays and sickness.
• Attend coordination, client and internal HSE Meetings.
• Ensure all data for the area is captured within monthly dashboards including incidents, lessons learnt, leading & lagging indicators.
• Manage all investigations within their area, ensuring the Deputy Head of HSESS is kept updated in real time of all learnings.
• Responsible for setting and improving improvement programmes within the areas.

Who we are looking for:

• Chartered IOSH Member or working towards Chartership.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
• Construction background with a minimum of 8 years' experience.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in order to explain HSE procedures and expectations to a range of people.
• Working knowledge of the Health and Safety Regulations.
• Experience of interactions with Regulators, presenting and hosting Site visits.
• Experience with managing teams of HSE professionally.
• Experienced auditor.
• Able to obtain a security clearance.
• Suitable site experience in a similar role, preferably in the construction or nuclear industry.
• Willing to undertake Level 3 Award in Education & Training / PTLLS or equivalent if required.
• Basic understanding of Nuclear Site Licence Conditions.
• An investigative mind and a keen eye for detail.
• Ideally experience of Mechanical, Electrical, HVAC, Scaffolding & Coatings.

Why work for us:

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You will have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us:

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise. We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.