Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Job Title: Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Location: Northampton, NN4

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Company Car/Car Allowance
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Healthcare
• Bonus
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Health, Safety & Environment Team. This role typically reports to the Senior Health, Safety & Environment Advisor.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.

What you’ll do as a Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

• Developing, preparing, reviewing and enforcing HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region
• Identifying, risk assessing and reporting potential hazards and non-compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate to maintain company safety standards
• Producing accurate and timely management reports and management information, such as non-compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety first approach
• Regularly inspecting construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Including periodic out of hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region
• Carrying out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
• Managing and monitoring contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised
• Effectively communicating with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships
• Providing HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up to date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings are undertaken and recorded
• Managing any referrals through the safety concerns line, to ensure that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values on being customer focused and social impact
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What do we need from you?

• Fully aware of key HS&E legislation including the Construction Design and Management Regulations
• Excellent organisational skills, being able to manage own time to meet targets and deadlines.
• Strong verbal communication skills, being able to develop strong relationships with all levels of the business from site teams to senior management
• Excellent written communication skills, being able to produce accurate reports and maintain both written and IT based reporting systems
• A good understanding of Microsoft Products, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety and/ or NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction (or equivalent)
• Ideally a higher level H&S qualification (or working towards this), such as: City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice; Level 6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety; NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Level 6; or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety
• Ideally a member of IOSH