Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor (South East)

From the commitment we pour into our homes, to the belief we bring to supporting amazing careers, a role at Persimmon is a springboard for Building Your New Possible. Discover new opportunities to grow, learn new skills and release your potential.

We’re Persimmon Homes, a FTSE 250 listed company and a leading UK house builder serving local communities across the UK and delivering around 10,000 homes a year. We have 29 operating businesses in England, Wales and Scotland, three house-building brands and three off-site manufacturing facilities.

We’re looking for people like you, and this could be your opportunity to start Building Your New Possible.

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.

The role will include:

• 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

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

What’s in it for you?

The Salary & Benefits package

• Salary competitive (DOE)
• Company car or car allowance
• Contributory pension
• Life cover
• Healthcare
• Bonus

When you join us, the future is yours to explore. You can realise your full potential through industry-leading training and clearly signposted career paths. Persimmon is where hard graft and team spirit means real variety, satisfaction and rewards. A place where you can be at your best, and even go beyond what you thought you were capable of. If this sounds like the place for you, apply today and start Building Your New Possible.

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No Agencies please – Persimmon will not accept speculative CVs as a means of introduction

Persimmon is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

If you have any questions about the job or application process please contact us at talentacquisition@persimmonhomes.com