Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

About the Role

At Balfour Beatty, nothing we do is more important than getting everyone home safe, healthy and well. As a Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor, you’ll be at the heart of that mission — influencing behaviours, shaping safer ways of working and driving a culture where Zero Harm is the norm. This is a highly visible, hands‑on role where you’ll work closely with project teams, supply chain partners and clients across our Power Transmission & Distribution projects, making a real difference on site, every day.

• Be a strong, consistent presence on site, encouraging safe behaviours and visible safety leadership
• Provide expert Health & Safety advice, guidance and coaching to operational teams
• Lead and support planned and unplanned inspections, audits and joint tours, producing clear, impactful reports
• Support projects from the planning and design stage, helping teams identify and control risk using the hierarchy of control
• Actively engage with operatives, supervisors and managers to find safer, smarter ways of working
• Deliver engaging HS&W awareness training, briefings and toolbox talks
• Work closely with the supply chain and subcontractors, offering guidance and constructive challenge
• Support incident, near miss and accident investigations, ensuring lessons learned are shared and embedded
• Champion behavioural safety initiatives and relentlessly pursue opportunities to challenge the norm
• Contribute to wider local and national HS&W initiatives, best practice sharing and continuous improvement
• Chair weekly HS&W project meetings, working collaboratively with operational leads

We’re looking for someone who combines technical HS&W expertise with strong people skills and the confidence to influence at all levels.

• NEBOSH National Certificate (or equivalent)
• Proven experience in a similar HS&W role within construction, utilities or infrastructure
• Strong communication, influencing and engagement skills
• A proactive, approachable and collaborative style
• Experience supporting investigations and maintaining accurate HS&W records
• A passion for coaching, developing others and improving safety culture
• A values‑led approach, consistently demonstrating Balfour Beatty behaviours

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leaves
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and ongoing maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum, the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE).

In 2020 we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabil

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidate recruit