Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

About the role

Balfour Beatty are looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Central Rail Systems Alliance (CRSA) Team, in Crewe.

Balfour Beatty, in alliance with Network Rail, AtkinsRéalis, and TSO, is delivering track renewals, crossings, and infrastructure upgrades across key UK rail routes. By combining expertise and using innovative digital and mechanised solutions, the alliance aims to improve efficiency and create a more reliable railway.

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor will collaborate with the HSE Manager to provide guidance, support, advice, and governance on all health and safety matters to the project. Partnering with Project Leads, the role ensures compliance with legislative requirements, the UK Business Management System (BMS), and Network Rail’s standards.

What you'll be doing

Role Purpose:

Ensure Compliance: Support projects in meeting legislative requirements, the health and safety standards of the UK Business Management System (BMS), and Network Rail's health and safety requirements for the alliance.

Support Alliance Delivery: Collaborate with the Alliance to ensure the effective delivery of health and safety obligations, offering technical advice, guidance, and support as required.

Promote Learning and Best Practice: Actively contribute to the sharing of knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices across Balfour Beatty and Network Rail.

Performance Reporting: Monitor and report on contract performance, including documenting and sharing best practice case studies.

Accountabilities will include:

• Implement the HSWES strategy for the business.

• Provide professional health, safety, and wellbeing (HS&W) services, including the review and approval of CDM documentation

• Build and develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Oversee HS&W governance within the region, ensuring the effective close-out of actions from investigations, audits, and site inspections.

• Ensure accurate reporting and analysis of performance.

• Oversee and, when necessary, conduct investigations into incidents, ensuring lessons learned are communicated effectively.

• Provide expert guidance, support, and coaching to contracts, projects, and offices through structured site visits, communications, and training.

• Maintain and enhance personal HSWES knowledge and skills.

• Support and sustain focus on the behavioural safety programme across the area.

• Promote health and safety initiatives and innovations across the area and the wider Alliance.

• Conduct site HSW audits, inspections, visits, and joint tours.

• Deliver inductions, toolbox talks, and other health, safety, and wellbeing briefings.

Who we're looking for

Experience:

Essential:

• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., IOSH/IEMA) or actively working towards it.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent qualification.
• Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
• Consistently display and demonstrate Balfour Beatty behaviours.
• Proven experience as an incident investigator.
• Relevant experience aligned with the specific project or business area.

Desirable:

• Experience within the rail construction environment.
• A recognised training qualification.
• Additional relevant skills or qualifications in any technical area

Why work for us

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.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- 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/partners leave

- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

Diversity and inclusion

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. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are 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://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com