Health and Safety Advisor

Anglian Water Services

Safety Advisor ensuring health and safety compliance in construction projects for Anglian Water. Driving safety performance and providing expertise across multiple locations.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeLincoln • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £50,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in health and safety leadership within construction environments, ensuring compliance with CDM Regulations and driving continuous improvement in safety performance. Capable of providing proactive guidance and support to teams while fostering a positive safety culture across multidisciplinary contractor workforces.

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Health And Safety OversightCDM Regulations ComplianceRisk Mitigation StrategiesContractor Management SystemsNEBOSH Diploma

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Hard Skills

Safety Standards EnforcementConstruction Safety ManagementAccident InvestigationSafety AuditsRisk Assessment

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsCoaching And EngagementCustomer Service OrientationCollaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

NEBOSH CertificateIOSH Membership

Industry Keywords

Civil EngineeringConstructionHealth And SafetyCapital ProjectsHigh-Risk Work Activities

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Drive continuous improvement in safety performance in the construction activities across Anglian Water and Partner Contractors.
Promote a positive safety culture through visible presence, coaching, and engagement.
Partner with Delivery Route Teams 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 contractor engagement, driving continuous improvement in safety outcomes.
Provide appropriate expert, timely (reactive and proactive), cost effective and practicable advice and guidance to managers and employees on safety matters in order to comply with legal and moral health and safety standards.
Support and influence front line managers & staff to ensure that they understand and adhere to appropriate practices consistent with current legislation and industry best practice.
Resolve enquiries received from customers (both internal and external) and respond as necessary.
Provide appropriate and targeted support on procedures and guidance to managers and employees.
Work with other safety professionals to ensure a consistent approach to safety and share best practice across the business.
Review business unit performance and provide support and direction to identify areas requiring development and improvement.
Carry out detailed investigations and report on significant accidents, incidents and near misses.
Establish and maintain effective relationships with partner contractors to develop initiatives and common standards to raise H&S performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience enforcing and improving safety standards within a construction, civil engineering or maintenance environment.
Strong practical understanding of CDM Regulations, with the ability to drive compliance and improve safety outcomes.
Proven 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.
Full UK Driving Licence due to the regular travel across the region
Applicants must live within the Anglian Water Region due to the nature of the role and the travel required. This ensures timely access to our sites and effective collaboration with our team
Ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent (or having embarked on/part way through the course)
Member of IOSH (Tech IOSH/MIOSH or Grad IOSH)
NEBOSH Certificate as a minimum
Flexible in responding to customer needs and safety team demands
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.