Bouygues Construction
HSW Advisor
Requirements
Requires a NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent, construction or infrastructure experience, knowledge of UK health and safety legislation including CDM Regulations 2015, and experience with inspections, audits, and incident investigations. Candidates should have strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, experience reviewing safety documentation, Microsoft Office competence, and a relevant CSCS card.
Job Description
We are looking for a proactive and committed Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Advisor to join our project team at Maple Cross. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the safe delivery of a major infrastructure programme, working alongside operational teams, subcontractors and client representatives.
As an HSW Advisor, you will help drive a positive safety culture across the project, ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, company standards and project requirements. You will provide practical advice, undertake inspections and audits, support incident investigations, and contribute to the continuous improvement of health, safety and wellbeing performance.
What You'll Be Doing
In This Role, You Will
- Conduct site inspections, workplace monitoring activities and safety tours.
- Support compliance with project procedures, client requirements and UK health and safety legislation.
- Assist with the implementation and monitoring of Construction Phase Plans and associated management systems.
- Review work activities to ensure effective risk controls are in place.
- Support the preparation and review of risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
- Assist with incident, accident and near-miss investigations, including root cause analysis.
- Monitor corrective actions and help drive improvements in safety performance.
- Participate in internal and external audits and assurance activities.
- Prepare clear reports following inspections, audits and investigations.
- Deliver toolbox talks, safety briefings and awareness campaigns.
- Promote behavioural safety initiatives and workforce wellbeing programmes.
- Support subcontractor assurance processes and compliance reviews.
- Contribute to planning meetings, design reviews and high-risk activity assessments.
- Support activities including temporary works, lifting operations, excavations and plant operations.
- Promote occupational health and wellbeing initiatives throughout the project.
Essential
- NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent).
- Experience working within construction, civil engineering or major infrastructure projects.
- Good understanding of UK Health & Safety legislation, including CDM Regulations 2015.
- Experience carrying out inspections, audits and incident investigations.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence and engage effectively with operational teams, supervisors, managers and subcontractors.
- Experience reviewing health and safety documentation and procedures.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office applications and safety reporting systems.
- Relevant CSCS card.
- Working towards a NEBOSH Diploma, Level 6 qualification or equivalent.
- IOSH membership.
- Experience on rail, tunnelling, MEP, HS2 or large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Experience with Temporary Works, Lifting Operations or Construction Assurance processes.
- Internal auditor training and experience working within controlled management systems.
- Experience using data analysis, dashboards or reporting tools to support performance monitoring.
- Knowledge of automation, scripting or digital reporting tools would be advantageous.
We're looking for someone who is passionate about creating safer workplaces and supporting colleagues at every level of a project organisation. You will be a practical problem solver who can confidently challenge unsafe behaviours while building strong working relationships across teams.
You Will Demonstrate
- A visible commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- A proactive, hands-on approach to problem solving.
- The ability to build effective relationships with clients, suppliers and project teams.
- Professionalism, integrity and accountability.
- A commitment to continuous improvement and learning.
- A collaborative "One Team" mindset.
This is an opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes while developing your career within a high-performing Health, Safety & Wellbeing team. You'll gain exposure to complex engineering and construction activities, work with experienced industry professionals, and play an important role in ensuring everyone goes home safe every day.
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About Bouygues Construction
Bouygues Construction employs 34,500 people around the world, all driven by the greatest and most exciting responsibility of all: Building for life. For our customers in more than 50 countries, we deliver much more than projects. We build to create spaces, connections and opportunities. We improve daily life for millions of people by creating structures and buildings that welcome life in all its diversity, serving all our needs: housing, healthcare, education, work, tourism, leisure activities, public services, etc. We are aware that everything we build is here to stay, and our legacy as builders will be with us for generations to come. This is why every day, we look for new solutions in order to design, renovate, and build differently. Our aim is to address the critical imperatives of the environmental transition: we are committed to making construction sustainable and less resource-intensive. We support the development of low-carbon energy production and public transport infrastructures, and we construct and renovate buildings and neighbourhoods using low-carbon materials, optimising the design of our structures and taking account of their lifecycle. Because the men and women of Bouygues Construction are our most precious asset, we ensure that everyone is safe at all times, and that human rights and ethical standards are respected. Finally, we are committed to ensuring that everyone can achieve their full potential in their work by building a career path that reflects the values we hold dear: respect, commitment, pioneering and sharing. Bouygues Construction is part of the Bouygues Group, which builds structures and careers across construction, energy, telecoms and media. Impactful projects, internal mobility, a culture of knowledge-sharing: here, what you build also builds you.