AddressWe're looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to join our Transportation team based in Somerset. This is for our highly esteemed maintenance works contract supporting Somerset County Councils road network. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Somerset
Contract: Permanent, full time
Responsibilities
As Health & Safety Advisor , you'll assist in the management and promotion of health, safety, environment, and well-being for our activities across the Somerset contracts and will require cross-functional support to other business units and involve travel to other base locations.
Your day to day will include:
- Support and engagement with teams to ensure compliance with safety, health, environment, and well-being policies, setting a good example to colleagues
- Collating information to produce reports, promote and support campaigns, arrange meetings, workshops, and forums
- Regular site, depot, and office inspections
- Supporting teams to close actions from audits, inspections, incident investigations, near misses and Safety observations and identifying trends
What are we looking for?
This role of Health & Safety Advisor is great if you have:
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent in Occupational Health and Safety
- Working understanding of SHE legislation and ISO: 9001 ISO: 14001 & ISO: 45001
- Experience and knowledge of premises / facilities management and temporary traffic management
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
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