Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor – Marine & Tunnelling

Location: Avonmouth

Join the exciting journey of one of the UK's largest nuclear projects at Sizewell C!

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to support the successful delivery of the Sizewell C Project.

CWA, appointed by the Sizewell C client, brings together three leading delivery contractors — Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues, and Balfour Beatty — to deliver the civils scope including Enabling Earthworks, Main Civil Works, and Marine and Tunnelling.

We are seeking a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to support the Marine & Tunnelling programme, based in Avonmouth. You'll play a critical role in promoting a positive health and safety culture, providing proactive advice across project teams, and ensuring compliance with all legal and company standards from design through to delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out planned project inspections and site tours, preparing written reports and recommendations
• Deliver pre-work site inspections to identify and address risks during planning stages
• Review and track unplanned events, supporting project teams in completing investigations
• Support liaison with clients, contractors and regulators, attending meetings and working groups
• Review and update project HSW documentation, ensuring compliance with governance and legal requirements
• Deliver training and advisory sessions, including setting to work, incident investigation, occupational health and safety familiarisation
• Contribute to behavioural safety programmes and promote reporting of close calls
• Support audits, risk assessments, workplace inspections and quality assurance activities
• Deliver safety cascades, site inductions and coaching sessions for employees and subcontractors
• Monitor changes in legislation and assess their impact on project activities
• Share lessons learned and best practices across the CWA and wider Sizewell C project
  
  

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Essential

• NEBOSH National Diploma, NCRQ Diploma in Applied Health & Safety or equivalent Level 6 qualification
• Strong understanding of UK health and safety legislation and regulatory frameworks
• Proven ability to influence and promote a positive HSW culture in a construction/civils environment
• Experience in accident and incident investigation and reporting
• Broad experience of safety management on complex construction projects
• Valid CSCS competence card
  
  

Desirable

• Graduate or Chartered Membership of IOSH (or working towards)
• Knowledge of tunnelling or marine operations
• Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  
  

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects, shaping the future of energy while working in a supportive, dynamic environment. Be part of a team that values innovation, safety, and sustainability at every stage of the journey—from investment to construction and beyond.

About Laing O'Rourke

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]