Chemical Safety & COSHH Advisor

Job Type: Site based

IR35 Status: Inside of IR35

Start date: TBC

Duration: Contract

Salary/ Pay rate: TBC DOE / Daily Rate up to 310£ per day PAYE or 420£ UMB/per day (up to 80k /per annum)

Location: Hinkley Point C, Somerset

Hours of work: 40 hrs, 5 day pattern

Job Purpose / Overview

The Chemical Safety and CoSHH Advisors will provide high-quality technical advice on the management of chemicals on the HPC site supporting safety, health, fire and environment functions to deliver a safe working environment on one of Europe's largest and busiest construction sites. The role will involve providing support and coaching to contract partner COSHH Co-ordinators as well as supporting the site's migration into a COMAH-regulated site as commissioning of the power station approaches. The role will also involve providing advice to the site's emergency response capability to ensure that the right response tools are in place.

Operating Environment

Hinkley Point C is a major infrastructure project requiring expertise and support of many other contractor organisations to deliver the project safely, to the right quality, on schedule and within budget. To provide assurance to our stakeholders that the project will be delivered safely and that we are controlling all potential hazards and safety risks, this position is required to support any activity that can help control site wide risks to the project. The project presents unusual challenges with numerous contractors working in close proximity to tight schedules. The project therefore provides a rare opportunity for developing exceptional skills in the management of chemical risks in dynamic conditions, supported by a wide range of subject matter experts.

Framework & Boundaries

The Chemical Safety and CoSHH will report to the Site Environmental Engineering Lead. The post holder will develop a 'one-team' working relationship with all key stakeholders and external stakeholders always providing clear communication and support to internal departments, programme teams and external stakeholders ensuring emergency arrangements are suitable and sufficient against the current and future risk profile.

Principal Accountabilities

• Chemical Safety and CoSHH Advisor, providing advice
• Assess contractor requests to bring products to site and ensure that Subject Matter Experts are consulted as required
• Coach and support contract partners to reach the high standards and chemical safety demanded at HPC
• Identify hazards that require additional mitigation or response measures and advise the relevant stakeholders
• Support the delivery of an improved chemical management system for the unique circumstances at HPC
• Identify chemical hazards and support specialists and contract partners to assess the risks and identify mitigation
• Support the development of an effective Chemical Management Community of Best Practice across the organisation

Dimensions

This position does not hold any line management or budgetary responsibility. The post holder will normally work within policy guidelines under the managerial guidance of the Site Environmental Engineering Lead. However, in view of the unpredictable nature of the job, a significant degree of autonomy and appropriate decision making is expected of the post holder when working on his/her own.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Highly skilled in instruction and presentation skills and communicates effectively both orally and in writing.
• Maintains a confident and resilient attitude in highly challenging situations.
• Ability to build a wide network and works effectively with others.
• Understands, recalls, applies and adapts relevant information in an organised, safe and systematic way.
• Ability to provide strategic and tactical advice to multiple stakeholders understanding and acknowledging different stakeholder's needs.
• Good organisational skills with practical and with the ability to manage several concurrent activities.
• A dynamic individual who is a team player that is pro-active and flexible and who can work on their own initiative across a broad range of issues to review compliance.
• A broad knowledge of chemical hazards and mitigation including potential for interactions giving rise to new hazards.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and guidance.

Desirable

• Effective negotiating and influencing skills with the ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to be self-motivating and manage own workload and priorities to meet the team's goals and targets.
• The ability to influence and to provide constructive challenge which is accepted by others.
• The ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• A degree or equivalent in chemistry or a similar discipline.
• Formal training in chemical risk assessment (at least P304).
• Experience managing chemicals on busy sites.

Desirable

• Experience of building effective professional relationships in a construction environment.
• Experience in waste classification and hazardous waste management.
• Awareness of environmental management and toxicology assessments.
• Experience of DSEAR assessments.
• Experience in process safety.

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