Health & Safety Advisor

Role: Health and Safety Advisor

Position: Contract

Location: Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset (J23 M5)

Days on Site: 5

Duration: Approx until 31st Dec 2027

Pay: up to 390 PAYE or 530 Umbrella / per day

Job Purpose / Overview

The Health and Safety Advisor will work as part of a team of Health and Safety Advisors providing the highest standard of advice and support to the HPC CDM Client and Principal Contractor management teams. Working in a collaborative, assertive and supportive manner, the Health and Safety Advisor will undertake a range of safety programme-based activities which include day to day provision of technical advice and guidance on all project health and safety matters and risk based intelligent monitoring all of which contributes to EDF Energy's goal of zero harm.

Operating Environment

The Health and Safety Advisor will operate by undertaking a range of planned advice, guidance and support activities which focus on establishing, promoting, maintaining, and continually improving the HPC CDM Client and Principal Contractor management arrangements; positively promoting and reinforcing NNB Genco standards; and monitoring/measuring the NNB and supply chain health and safety performance through risk-based inspections and audits.

Maintaining and developing internal and external relationships, providing clear communication between relevant departments and external contractors. Collating and disseminating safety related information and the ability to influence and encourage attitudes and behaviors towards safety.

Each Health and Safety Advisor will be assigned to support one of the NNB core Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT); integrating with the MDT providing advice and support on all H&S issues and risks associated with the MDT works ensuring all NNB Client and Principal Contractor duties are fulfilled. The Health and Safety Advisor will maintain clear reporting lines to the HPC Lead Health and Safety Advisor and the MDT Senior Construction Delivery Lead.

Principal Accountabilities

• Participate in creating, maintaining, and improving health and safety in the
• Influence the multi-disciplinary team on health and safety issues relating to pre-construction planning & project evolution.
• Develop timely project-based health and safety risk profiles to direct risk-based inspection and other assurance activities.
• Provide assurance to the Client organisations that Designers and Principal Contractors are complying with their requirements under Construction (Design & Management) Regulations
• Participate and advise as a subject matter expert in constructability, maintainability, and operability
• Undertake inspections, carry out accident investigations, keep records

• Co-ordinate and collate information required to produce scheduled H & S reports and identify trends and early warnings of possible issues and recommend appropriate
• Carry out audits of construction activities on site to ensure that the requirements set out in the construction phase plan are adhered to.
• Provide advice on the interpretation and application of the H & S management This to include provision of relevant training, briefings, and information.
• Carry out regular behavioral safety conversations with construction contractors on
• Pro-active creation and implementation of programmes to underpin zero tolerance to HSE issues/problems.
• Increase awareness of all HSE
• Work with peers in other disciplines to ensure creation of coherent and integrated polices and systems that avoid unnecessary duplication and dissipation of effort.
• Be an effective and participative member of a team of safety, health, and environmental

Dimensions

The Health and Safety Advisor is responsible for ensuring that the contractors and consultants working on the HPC Project will comply all applicable statutory health and safety legislative requirements, identifying shortcoming and providing guidance on these areas). The role is also responsible for providing advice and guidance to ensure smooth operation and reporting health and safety issues.

At peak the HPC Construction Site will have c.6000 persons working at any one time.

Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop wide network and working relationships within EDF and the construction industry.
• Results focus tempered with team centered
• Highly skilled in the analysis of technically demanding and detailed information and quickly identify the underlying issues and risks.
• Strong capacity to be future focused in identifying risks and Strong communication skills to be able to put across complex concepts and data in a way that is readily understood and actionable, using a variety of media.
• Skillful in engaging others with technical issues and maintaining their interest and
• Skillful in distilling knowledge and building skills in others and the capacity to be pragmatic and practical in the way that technical issues are addressed.
• Good knowledge of large organisational, process plant and site, operations
• Ability to establish a vision and develop/implement strategy to attain
• Excellent knowledge of national and international HSE standards
• Excellent knowledge of CDM Regulations
• Proven track record of achieving excellent safety results on major engineering and construction

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant HSE experience within a large project setting
• Experience of co-ordinating between contractors to support resolving health and safety interface issues across complex and high-risk operations.
• Tech IOSH or equivalent
• NEBOSH HSE Diploma or European equivalent
• Excellent knowledge of CDM Regulations

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