HSEQ Advisor

Description Are you an HSEQ professional who enjoys being close to operations, influencing safe behaviours, and helping teams deliver work the right way? We are looking for a proactive HSEQ Advisor to join our contract HSEQ team, supporting one of our regional operational areas and reporting to the HSEQ Lead. In this hands-on role, you will be a visible and trusted point of contact for health, safety, environmental and quality matters. You will help promote compliance, support site teams, identify and elevate issues, and ensure lessons learned, documentation and system requirements are communicated clearly across the contract.

Key Responsibilities

• You will work closely with operational teams, contract leadership and clients to support safe, compliant and efficient delivery.
• Maintain and promote high standards of health, safety, environmental and quality compliance across operational activities.
• Carry out site inspections, assurance visits and verification checks, ensuring findings and
  non-conformances are followed through to effective closure.
• Support accident, incident and near-miss investigations, helping teams identify root causes, learn lessons and implement practical corrective actions.
• Encourage positive intervention reporting, unsafe act and condition reporting, and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
• Produce weekly and monthly updates that highlight achievements, trends, risks, issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Work with operational teams to drive timely close-out of corrective actions raised by internal compliance reviews, client feedback and external audits.
• Compile accident and incident statistics for the contracts you support and contribute to client and contract performance meetings.
• Build strong working relationships with supervisors, operatives, contractors, clients and support functions to improve ways of working.
• Be a visible HSEQ presence on site and in the office, coaching teams and promoting safe, responsible and professional
  behaviours.
• Support training and competency compliance, helping ensure operational teams have the right skills, knowledge and authorisations to work safely.
• Assist the Quality Assurance and Environmental Lead with management system requirements and accreditations, including ISO 45001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
• Continue to develop your knowledge of our services, our clients and the wider utilities sector as the business grows.

Experience and Qualifications

• You will hold a recognised health and safety qualification, such as NEBOSH Certificate, NEBOSH Construction or an equivalent qualification.
• You will hold, or be working towards, IOSH membership.
• Experience in the utilities sector, or working around electrical cabling and LV jointing activities, would be advantageous.
• Experience working in Distribution Network Operator environments would be highly beneficial.
• You will be confident carrying out audits, inspections and assurance checks both independently and alongside operational colleagues.
• You will be capable of supporting or leading incident investigations, identifying root causes and helping deliver meaningful corrective actions.
• You will be comfortable in a hands-on, site-facing role, regularly engaging with operational teams and visiting live work locations.
• You will have strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence site teams, contractors and client representatives in a practical and supportive way.
• You will understand the importance of CDM compliance and have experience working within a utility, construction or power infrastructure environment.
• A full UK driving licence is required for this role.

Salary and Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.

Equality and Diversity

• Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
• We are Armed Forces-friendly. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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About Network Plus

Network Plus is an award-winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK's major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater.

We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer.

We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment - we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution

matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.

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