About The Role
At Balfour Beatty, we’re delivering some of the UK’s most significant energy infrastructure projects and are looking for a Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager to join our growing Power Transmission & Distribution team in North East Scotland.
This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key leadership role across a diverse and high‑profile portfolio of overhead line and substation projects stretching from Peterhead to Dundee, with a combined value of approximately £113 million.
Projects Within The Portfolio Include
- Peterhead 400kV GIS Extension
- Longside 400kV & 132kV Substations
- New Deer Substation
- Cambushinnie Substation
- A number of additional strategic infrastructure projects supporting Scotland’s energy transition
As Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager, you’ll provide visible leadership and expert guidance across the portfolio, driving our Zero Harm culture and ensuring the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing performance. You’ll work closely with operational teams, supply chain partners and key stakeholders to influence behaviours, embed best practice and support the successful delivery of these critical projects.
The successful candidate will ideally be based in the Aberdeen area, although we welcome applications from candidates across North East Scotland who are willing to travel regularly throughout the portfolio.
What you’ll be doing
- Work with the HS&W Head of to develop and ensure the delivery of the Business Unit/Project Zero Harm Strategy aligned to the Power T&D Business Plan.
- Manage the recruitment and development of HS&W professionals within their chain of command, including coaching and mentoring as required.
- Develop professional relationships with regulators, customers joint‑venture partners and supply chain.
- Manage day‑to‑day Health and Safety resources to support Operations in implementing the Health and Safety Policy and standards across their area of responsibility.
- Manage the resource allocation and deployment of competent HS&W delivery resource across their area of responsibility, ensuring resource utilisation data is collected and made available to implement a risk‑based support schedule.
- Support work‑winning and bid support for the operational teams, where required.
- Manage the programme of inspection and audit to provide assurance that all business units continue to comply with company requirements.
- Fulfil HS&W, Client and Balfour Beatty incident reporting and performance requirements (7 Day Report, KPIs) and act as incident lead if required.
- In collaboration with Project Director/Head of Operations Directors, carry out project and business sector HS&W performance reviews using lagging and leading indicators.
- Support the Operations/Project Director with contract/project level SHELTs to drive and deliver HS&W improvement plans.
- Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of developments in Health and Safety.
Who we’re looking for
- Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or working towards).
- NVQ Level 4/5 (or equivalent qualification/experience).
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate / Diploma.
- Must have detailed, technical knowledge and experience of health and safety legislation, regulations and guidance.
- Construction industry experience (or experience in an equivalent sector) and in particular CDM.
- Must have prior experience of providing leadership and support to operational and functional teams.
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? 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/partner’s leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, ENEI, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourages 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/.
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