Senior Health and Safety Advisor

Anglian Water Services

Senior Health & Safety Advisor ensuring compliance and oversight of health and safety at Anglian Water construction projects. Managing safety teams and driving safety performance improvements.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timePeterborough • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £60,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates strong leadership in health and safety management, ensuring compliance with CDM Regulations and fostering a positive safety culture across construction teams. Proven ability to influence safety performance and implement risk mitigation strategies in high-risk environments.

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Team LeadershipCDM Regulations ComplianceHealth And Safety OversightRisk Mitigation StrategiesNEBOSH Diploma

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Hard Skills

Health And Safety ManagementIncident InvestigationSafety Performance AnalysisConstruction Safety StandardsSafety Culture Promotion

Soft Skills

Stakeholder Relationship ManagementEffective CommunicationCoaching And EngagementAdaptabilityProblem Solving

Certifications & Qualifications

NEBOSH DiplomaNEBOSH CertificateIOSH Membership

Industry Keywords

Construction SafetyCapital ProjectsHigh-Risk Work ActivitiesContractor ManagementSafety Culture

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Line management responsibility, setting clear objectives, monitoring performance, and ensuring effective people management processes are in place for the team of Safety Professionals.
Support Capital Delivery teams to ensure all construction activities, including civil engineering works, are planned and delivered safely and in compliance with statutory and organisational health and safety requirements.
Provide proactive health and safety leadership across Delivery Route construction teams and Partner Contractors
Influence and challenge Delivery Route leadership to drive continuous improvement in safety performance.
Promote a positive safety culture through visible presence, coaching, and engagement.
Partner with Delivery Route leadership to ensure works are planned and delivered safely, compliantly, and in line with CDM and company standards.
Identify, assess, and influence control of health and safety risks associated with complex and high-risk construction activities.
Deliver assurance through inspections, audits, and performance reviews, driving continuous improvement in safety outcomes.
Lead on incident investigation, learning, and behavioural initiatives to embed a strong and positive safety culture.
Implement immediate mitigation controls in the event of serious incidents
Identify trends in safety performance and near-miss data.
Review business unit performance and provide feedback for improvement.
Support operational standdowns and training of front-line managers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience in team leadership and management.
Strong practical understanding of CDM Regulations, with the ability to drive compliance and improve safety outcomes.
Expertise in providing H&S oversight on large scale capital projects and ongoing site maintenance operations.
Exceptional capability in supporting contractor management systems, risk mitigation strategies (including CDM compliance / High-Risk Work Activities), and fostering a collaborative Safety culture across multidisciplinary contractor workforces.
Proven experience enforcing and improving safety standards within a construction environment.
Ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
Member of IOSH (Tech IOSH/ CM IOSH or Grad IOSH). NEBOSH Certificate as a minimum.
Flexible in responding to customer /contractor needs and changing workload demands.
Ability to have challenging conversations and maintain positive stakeholder relationships under pressure.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
Personal private health care
Annual bonus scheme
26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
Life Cover at 8x your salary
Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.