Address About The Role
We are looking for a SHEQ Advisor to be part of our Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality team in the Cumbria and Carlisle area.
Job Summary
To deliver and maintain a positive Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture throughout the fibre build workforce across two operating businesses. Ensuring the effective delivery of associated management strategies / action plans to exceed client expectations and prevent incidents, injuries, work-related illness, damage to underground, overhead apparatus and domestic services and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions.
Be responsible for:
Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.
Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:
Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
To deliver and maintain a positive Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture throughout the fibre build workforce across two operating businesses. Ensuring the effective delivery of associated management strategies / action plans to exceed client expectations and prevent incidents, injuries, work-related illness, damage to underground, overhead apparatus and domestic services and progress driver behaviours to reduce at-fault traffic collisions.
Be responsible for:
Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.
Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:
Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
Be responsible for:
Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.
Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:
- Decarbonising our operations and services to our clients
- Environmental performance
- Adopting world class standards
- Monitoring and controlling sustainability and environmental risk
Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
Overview of Responsibilities
To deliver and maintain a positive Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture throughout the fibre build workforce across two operating businesses. Ensuring the effective delivery of associated management strategies / action plans to exceed client expectations and prevent incidents, injuries, work-related illness, damage to underground, overhead apparatus and domestic services and progress driver behaviours to reduce at-fault traffic collisions.
Be responsible for:
Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.
Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:
- Decarbonising our operations and services to our clients
- Environmental performance
- Adopting world class standards
- Monitoring and controlling sustainability and environmental risk
Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
- Deliver the framework that promotes and encourages an organisational culture that champions an incident free environment.
- Ensure effective implementation of safety, health and environmental systems and procedures to ensure legal compliance.
- Ensure compliance to the business management system and applicable processes to achieve safety, health, environmental and quality performance.
- Identify and report any gaps in documentation, competence, and systems utilising the appropriate change request procedure.
- Contribute to the completion and maintenance of the business, contract and workstream risk register(s).
- Deliver against the published annual SHEQ business specific ‘Targets and Objectives’ to ensure continual improvement.
- Participate in external audits / verification of company accreditations.
- Participate in applications for external awards collating and storing relevant evidence throughout the year.
- Deliver continuous improvement initiatives to maintain the highest levels of safe working practices, raise SHEQ awareness and ensure the highest quality of all delivered products and services.
- Work proactively and collaboratively with the delivery team, managers, supervisors, sub-contractors and other key personnel to establish and maintain a programme of continual improvement.
- Provide the necessary support, advice and guidance to maintain CDM compliance, ensuring that adequate competent resource is appointed to undertake nominated duty holder roles within your area of responsibility.
- Deliver SHEQ performance against targets, identify trends and recommend opportunities for improvement.
- Ensure that the company applications are adopted to appropriately manage risk within our operations and that compliance is measured and enforced.
- Undertake effective 2nd party assurance against the published audit schedule using active and re-active monitoring to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support in the analysis and trending of root causes and non-conformities ensuring the effective delivery of corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Collaborate with the management team and sub-contractors as appropriate to share best practice and ensure delivery of relevant targets and objectives.
- Communication and adoption of client related build/ SHEQ standards and specifications.
- Support operations with client related SHEQ improvement initiatives.
- Produce SHEQ performance reports as required by both clients, divisional and group functions and present at meetings as required.
- Collaborate with the SHEQ Co-ordinator to ensure a fully competent workforce.
- Collaborate with the internal SMART Awards accreditation team to ensure job role compliance against fully accredited workforce matrices.
- Ensure all personnel receive the necessary induction / onboarding prior to being put to work.
- Capture and reporting of Scope 1,2 and 3 Carbon emissions for onward reporting into the SHEQ Manager and Head of SHEQ.
- Capture and collate waste management data derived from sub-contractor organisations for 2nd party assurance (chain of custody).
- Collaborate with drivers to support the management of Occupational Road Risk and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions and unreported vehicle damage.
- Where necessary, create and distribute SHEQ related promotional material, alerts, bulletins, and briefings to increase awareness and communicate lessons learned.
- Ensure that incident investigations are to an exemplary standard and act as lead investigator were required.
- Ensure all associated guidance documents, standards, and specifications applicable to our operations are accessible and readily available where required.
- Provide effective delivery of health surveillance requirements (e.g., HAVS, Climbers Medical, Face-Fit Testing of RPE, Pre-employment screening, Drugs and Alcohol Testing etc.)
- Support the group supply chain control team in the completion and submission of all sub-contractor SHEQ evaluations to ensure that they progress efficiently.
- A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all aspects associated with safety, health, environmental and quality risk management.
- Demonstrable experience of recognise best practice, risk management techniques and management principles.
- A comprehensive knowledge of current safety, health and environmental legislation, management, and standards.
- Ability to problem solve and implement solutions to mitigate risk.
- An effective advisor with highly developed skills regarding stakeholder engagement and experience of liaison and influence at management level.
- Ability to interpret and provide authoritative advice on safety, health, environmental and quality risk management issues.
- Proven, demonstrable experience in a similar role, ideally gained within the Telecoms sector.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines with positive outcomes.
Personal Qualities / Behaviours
- Ability to organise workload effectively for the purpose of meeting deadlines.
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility / versatility combined with initiative, drive and tenacity to deliver objectives.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with personnel within the organisation, creating engagement and support.
- Ability to work autonomously and flexibly, responding to business needs.
- Ability to challenge poor performance and approach difficult conversations in an appropriate and engaging manner.
Qualifications and Experience
- NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate (or equivalent) Working towards NEBOSH Diploma.
- Affiliate Member (AIOSH) (Internal Grade 3) ideally working towards Technical Member (TECH IOSH) or equivalent professional body grade.
- Technical Member IOSH (Tech IOSH) (Internal Grade 4), ideally working towards Certified Membership (Cert IOSH) or equivalent professional body grade.
- Up to date CPD.
- Experience of complying with and working to an externally audited management standard including ISO 45001, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001. Along with but not limited to Achilles, Carbon Reduce, NICEIC, Safe Contractor, FIRAS etc.
- Recent proven experience of working in a SHEQ Advisor position.
- Knowledge and experience in Streetworks, working at height, confined spaces, and Construction Design Management
- Ability to use work management systems, Microsoft Office 365 applications, produce reports, analyse data, and implement strategies/ action plans.
About The Company
Why choose us?
We promise development and reward opportunities for those who have the passion, enthusiasm and work ethic to harness them. Our benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 4% matched pension scheme
- 2 x salary life assurance
- Access to our staff discount portal
- Health Cash Plan
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Recruitment referral scheme
- Payroll giving
- Salary finance scheme
Inclusiveness
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme we welcome applications from individuals who consider themselves as having a disability or long-term health condition. Please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to aid your application and recruitment process.
As a gold award holder under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme, we are interested to hear from candidates who are currently serving in the military who may wish to transition to a civilian Job. We also welcome applications from Reservists, Cadet Forces Adult Volunteers, ex-forces personnel and military spouses / partners.
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Benefits
Company pension, Cycle to work scheme, Employee discount, Referral programme
