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Health & Safety Advisor
- Listed: 23 Dec 2025
- Civil Engineering & Infrastructure
- London
About the Client
Our client is a leading specialist contractor operating across construction, landscaping, and public realm projects throughout the UK. They are recognised for delivering high-quality schemes as a main contractor, with a strong commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and collaborative project delivery.
About the Role
The Health & Safety Advisor will support the delivery of projects across Central London, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety, environmental, and quality performance are consistently achieved. Acting as a key point of contact for HSEQ matters, the Health & Safety Advisor will provide proactive, hands-on support to project teams, promoting best practice, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and fostering a positive safety culture across all sites.
Responsibilities
Qualifications & Technical Skills
Our client is a leading specialist contractor operating across construction, landscaping, and public realm projects throughout the UK. They are recognised for delivering high-quality schemes as a main contractor, with a strong commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and collaborative project delivery.
About the Role
The Health & Safety Advisor will support the delivery of projects across Central London, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety, environmental, and quality performance are consistently achieved. Acting as a key point of contact for HSEQ matters, the Health & Safety Advisor will provide proactive, hands-on support to project teams, promoting best practice, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and fostering a positive safety culture across all sites.
Responsibilities
- To advise and support project and site teams on all aspects of health, safety, environmental, and quality (HSEQ) management.
- To monitor and ensure compliance with company procedures, statutory legislation, and industry best practice.
- To carry out regular site inspections, audits, and inspections, producing detailed reports and tracking corrective actions to close out.
- To support incident and near-miss reporting, investigations, and root cause analysis, ensuring lessons learned are communicated and embedded.
- To deliver site inductions, toolbox talks, and health & safety briefings as required.
- To assist project teams with subcontractor prequalification, monitoring, and performance reviews.
- To liaise with clients, designers, subcontractors, and enforcing authorities as required.
- To support environmental and sustainability initiatives across projects.
- To assist in the continual improvement of company HSEQ policies, procedures, and best practice.
Qualifications & Technical Skills
- NEBOSH General Certificate (Construction Certificate preferred)
- Relevant health & safety qualification or professional development
- CSCS Card (appropriate to role)
- 3-day First Aid at Work (desirable)
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations and construction-related legislation
- Proactive and pragmatic approach to health & safety management
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Confident in delivering training, briefings, and toolbox talks
- Collaborative team player with the ability to work effectively across multiple projects
- Proven experience working as a Health & Safety Advisor within the construction industry
- Experience supporting live construction sites, ideally as a main contractor
- Strong understanding of RAMS, Work Package Plans, and safe systems of work
- Experience conducting site inspections, audits, and incident investigations
- Sufficient experience required in construction, landscaping, or public realm projects
