Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager
Dept: Health Safety Environment
Job No: BBUK21102
Location: Stornoway
Contract: Permanent
About the role
Balfour Beatty are looking for a Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Manager to join our Regional Scotland - Energy team, in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
This role leads the day‑to‑day delivery of Health & Safety across the project, ensuring policies and standards are consistently applied and risks are effectively managed. You’ll oversee HSW resources using a risk‑based approach, provide assurance through audits and inspections, support bids and work‑winning, and work closely with operational leaders to drive strong HSW performance, incident management and continuous improvement.
What you'll be doing
- Manage day-to-day Health and Safety resources to support Operations in implementing the Health and Safety Policy and standards across all BUs in their area of responsibility.
- Manage the resource allocation and deployment of competent HS&E delivery resources 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 BUs continue to comply with company requirements.
- Fulfil HS&E, Customer 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&E performance reviews using lagging and leading indicators.
- Support the Operations/Project Director with contract/project level SHELTs to drive and deliver HS&E improvement plans.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of developments in Health and Safety
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- Corporate 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 (where work within a specific construction sector experience is advantageous, then specify).
- 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?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key 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/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to Highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.
We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.
Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.
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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