H&S Advisor

Job Summary by the Career Balance Team:

Thames Water is seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to help deliver their Safety, Health, and Wellbeing Strategy. The role involves ensuring compliance with the company’s management system, providing technical skills and support to ensure safe operations, conducting audits and inspections, reviewing safe systems of work and risk assessments, delivering training, leading incident investigations, and liaising with enforcing authorities and industry groups. The position is hybrid, requiring a minimum of 3 days a week supporting teams in the field, and offers a competitive salary, car allowance, pension, and other benefits. A passion for health, safety, and wellbeing, as well as relevant qualifications and technical knowledge, are desired.

Job Description:In this role, you will be helping to deliver our Safety, Health, and Wellbeing Strategy, and ensuring compliance with the Thames Water management system, standards, processes, and procedures. You will provide technical skills and support both on-site and remotely to ensure the safe running of our operations.

This role is hybrid which requires a minimum of 3 days a week out supporting teams in your geographic area of responsibility who are working in the public highway, with some early morning starts to meet the operations teams before they leave their depots for the day. The remaining 2 days will be attending meetings both in person and on teams, completing investigation and inspection reports, and other administrative tasks

What you’ll be doing as a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

• Undertake audits/inspections.
• Assist in the review and agreement process of safe systems of work and risk assessments where there is a significant risk to safety and the environment.
• Provide support and advice to stakeholders (which will include wholesale, support service staff, and contractors) on Safety, Health, and Well-being matters including compliance with applicable legislation and industry best practices.
• Deliver training in line with the annual training plan.
• Lead incident investigations.
• Liaise with enforcing authorities and professional/industry groups.

 
The base location for the role  is Epsom
 

Working hours: 36 hours per week
 

What you should bring to the role:

• A passion for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing leading by example.
• NEBOSH Certificate or NVQ level 3.
• Full UK Driving license.
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal and the ability to communicate with senior business leaders.
• Be self-motivated and able to work as a part of a team.
• Technical knowledge of a related industry (utilities, water or construction) whilst not essential would be an advantage.

 
What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £35,000 to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
• Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance £4,500 annum.
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution – Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Once a year Personal Medical Assessments.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

 
Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear – to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities, and planet can thrive. Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all. But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running, and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
 
Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life’s essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that everyone brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.Location: South East, Epsom