SHEQ Advisor

IBP are currently recuiting for a SHEQ Advisor based in the Bristol area. The SHEQ Advisor is a Regional role covering the South West. Reporting into the SHEQ Manager, the jobholder will support the Regional SHEQ Function. To deliver and maintain a positive Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) culture throughout the fibre build workforce across two operating businesses. Ensuring the effective delivery of associated management strategies / action plans to exceed client expectations and prevent incidents, injuries, work-related illness, damage to underground, overhead apparatus and domestic services and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions.

The main duties include but are not limited to:

• Instilling and promoting a right first-time approach to network build quality and ensuring that where non-conformity is identified, corrective and preventative actions are adopted to achieve continuous improvement.
• Ensure good environmental practice across our operations, continually looking to develop and introduce sustainable processes and behaviours across our supply chain and fibre build activities, whilst ensuring that focus is applied to the following areas:
• Decarbonising our operations and services to our clients
• Environmental performance
• Adopting world class standards
• Monitoring and controlling sustainability and environmental risk
• Provide effective implementation of controls to address risk from working within and around occupied commercial and residential properties.
• Deliver the framework that promotes and encourages an organisational culture that champions an incident free environment.
• Ensure effective implementation of safety, health and environmental systems and procedures to ensure legal compliance.
• Ensure compliance to the business management system and applicable processes to achieve safety, health, environmental and quality performance.
• Identify and report any gaps in documentation, competence, and systems utilising the appropriate change request procedure.
• Contribute to the completion and maintenance of the business, contract and workstream risk register(s)
• Participate in external audits / verification of company accreditations.
• Participate in applications for external awards collating and storing relevant evidence throughout the year.
• Deliver continuous improvement initiatives to maintain the highest levels of safe working practices, raise SHEQ awareness and ensure the highest quality of all delivered products and services.
• Work proactively and collaboratively with the delivery team, managers, supervisors, sub-contractors and other key personnel to establish and maintain a programme of continual improvement.
• Provide the necessary support, advice and guidance to maintain CDM compliance, ensuring that adequate competent resource is appointed to undertake nominated duty holder roles within your area of responsibility.
• Deliver SHEQ performance against targets, identify trends and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure that the company applications are adopted to appropriately manage risk within our operations and that compliance is measured and enforced.
• Undertake effective 2nd party assurance against the published audit schedule using active and re-active monitoring to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support in the analysis and trending of root causes and non-conformities ensuring the effective delivery of corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with the management team and sub-contractors as appropriate to share best practice and ensure delivery of relevant targets and objectives.
• Communication and adoption of client related build/ SHEQ standards and specifications.
• Support operations with client related SHEQ improvement initiatives.
• Produce SHEQ performance reports as required by both clients, divisional and group functions and present at meetings as required.
• Collaborate with the SHEQ Co-ordinator to ensure a fully competent workforce.
• Ensure all personnel receive the necessary induction / onboarding prior to being put to work.
• Capture and reporting of Scope 1,2 and 3 Carbon emissions for onward reporting into the SHEQ Manager and Head of SHEQ.
• Capture and collate waste management data derived from sub-contractor organisations for 2nd party assurance (chain of custody).
• Collaborate with drivers to support the management of Occupational Road Risk and progress driver behaviour to reduce at-fault traffic collisions and unreported vehicle damage.
• Where necessary, create and distribute SHEQ related promotional material, alerts, bulletins, and briefings to increase awareness and communicate lessons learned.
• Ensure that incident investigations are to an exemplary standard and act as lead investigator were required.
• Ensure all associated guidance documents, standards, and specifications applicable to our operations are accessible and readily available where required.
• Provide effective delivery of health surveillance requirements (e.g., HAVS, Climbers Medical, Face-Fit Testing of RPE, Pre-employment screening, Drugs and Alcohol Testing etc.)

The Ideal candidate must possess the following skills and experience:

• A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all aspects associated with safety, health, environmental and quality risk management.Demonstrable experience of recognised best practice, risk management techniques and management principles.
• A comprehensive knowledge of current safety, health and environmental legislation, management, and standards.
• Ability to problem solve and implement solutions to mitigate risk.
• An effective advisor with highly developed skills regarding stakeholder engagement and experience of liaison and inf