Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
Job Title: Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
Location: Bowburn, DH6 (Initial Assignment)
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Trainee 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?
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Trainee Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor, you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- Company Car or Car Allowance
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- 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?
The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop, prepare, review and enforce HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region.
- Identify, risk assess and report 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.
- Produce 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 inspect 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.
- Carry out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
- Manage and monitor contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised.
- Effectively communicate with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships.
- Provide 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.
- Manage 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.
- Develop strong effective and trusted working relationships, where collaboration and communication is key to promoting a safe working environment.
What experience do I need?
- 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.
- Awareness of key HS&E workplace hazards.
- A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety.
- Member of IOSH desirable but not essential.
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