HSEQ - Health Safety & Environmental Advisor

Working here isn t just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we ll reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

About the role

Due to continued growth, Avove is seeking a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Advisor to join our Severn Trent Framework.
Reporting directly to the Lead HSE Advisor, the successful candidate will work closely with local Account Leads and operational teams. The role will involve developing and implementing a local HSE strategy while ensuring alignment with wider departmental and group objectives.

Location: Derby with regular travel throughout the region.

Salary: £41,000 - £49,000 (Depending on experience)

Company Car or Car Allowance

Responsibilities:

• Providing professional advice, challenge, and intervention with regard to health and safety matters to account personnel - predominantly operations managers, supervisors, and operatives.
• Conduct audits and inspections in accordance with the account audit plan
• Assisting the contract leadership team monitor health and safety performance
• Maintaining a dialogue with client health and safety practitioners on day-to-day operational safety and strategic matters
• Assisting and prompting effective incident reporting and updates in line with company, legal and client requirements.
• Overseeing the reviews of task risk assessments and safe working practices documented in the method statements.

Skills/Experience required:

• NEBOSH Qualification
• Environmental Awareness qualification is not essential but desirable.
• Good interpersonal and management skills
• Good IT skills
• Experience working with the utility or construction industry

Please note that candidates with qualifications that do not fully match the above criteria but have relevant equivalent experience are invited to apply.

What s in it for you

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that s not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesn t fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Family friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

About us:
We design, build and maintain the UK s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water and power sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment. Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.

We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, and Scottish Power Energy Networks.

We are an equal opportunities employer:
We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we re making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

What next:
We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.
If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion