Lead Safety Advisor

  • Bridgwater
  • Jacobs

Your Impact : At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

The Lead Safety Advisor will work in conjunction with their respective HPC Programme Construction Delivery Lead providing the highest standard of health and safety support and guidance.

In addition to the responsibility to provide day to day technical support on all programme health and safety related matters, the post holder will operate successfully by providing solutions, support and guidance to enable the creation and implementation of best in class programme health and safety strategies and plans.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Tier 1 health and safety teams establishing H&S risk management and high impact promotion programmes which enable demonstrable compliance with the NNB HPC Safety Management System contributing to the ambition of zero harm across the programme and the HPC Project.

Key Responsibilities

  • Participate in creating, maintaining and improving health and safety performance in the control of risks across all programme operations
  • Coordinate the work activities of the NNB safety advisors assigned to the MDT ensuring all MDT delivery teams receive the highest standard of health and safety support and guidance
  • Establish and maintain the required programme meetings, forums and engagements which plan, manage, monitor, coordinate and review health and safety in accordance with the HPC Safety Management System and CPP requirements
  • Produce relevant and appropriate health and safety performance reports ensuring all performance data is provided to the NNB Site Safety Manager in accordance with agreed timeframes, including the identification of trends and early warnings of possible issues, recommending appropriate action
  • Positively engage with and influence the programme Multi-Disciplinary team on all health and safety issues relating to pre-construction and construction planning & project(s) evolution advising on constructability, maintainability and operability matters
  • Establish and maintain programme and project based health and safety risk profiles and undertake associated risk based inspections and other assurance activities
  • Provide assurance on compliance with applicable legal duties including the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 to the HPC Programme Construction Delivery Lead and HPC Programme Manager
  • Carry out multiple H&S engagements include inspections, event investigations, and behavioural safety conversations with construction contractors on site

Here’s What You’ll Need :

  • Extensive HSE experience including running a HSE group within a large project environment
  • Significant management experience in successfully influencing and engaging senior business leaders and supporting project teams
  • Exposure to creating and implementing large scale health and safety strategies across complex and high risk operations
  • Chartered membership of IOSH or equivalent
  • NEBOSH HSE Diploma or European equivalent

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and