We are looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to support our Business Partners in promoting safe and sustainable working practices. You will help drive our ambition of Zero Harm by ensuring health, safety, and wellbeing objectives are achieved across the organisation.
Investigate significant incidents, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
Provide coaching and guidance to stakeholders on health and safety matters.
Conduct site inspections, audits, and technical monitoring surveys to ensure compliance and best practice.
Support risk assessments, method statements, and health and safety change initiatives.
Deliver training, toolbox talks, and awareness briefings to teams.
Collaborate with operational teams to embed safety at all stages of work.
Contribute to the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and improvement activities.
Essential:
NEBOSH General Certificate and Technical Membership of IOSH.
Experience in risk management, incident investigations, audits, and site inspections.
Knowledge of health and safety legislation, strategies, and best practice.
Strong technical and engineering understanding.
Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills.
Ability to work independently, plan, and prioritise workload effectively.
This is a regional role requiring regular travel to sites, along with attendance at our Hatfield office once per week.
Desirable:
NEBOSH Diploma or working towards it.
Experience within the utilities or construction sectors.
Benefits:
Salary: £42,000 plus dependant on skills and experience
Car allowance subject to meeting business mileage requirements.
Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
Life Assurance.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.
Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.
You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.
Our vision is to be the leading community-focused water company.
Water is essential for life so the service we provide is vital for the customers we serve – this is a very special responsibility. We are the largest water-only supplier in the UK, delivering more than 940 million litres of safe, high quality drinking water to our 3.6 million customers each and every day!
In order to do this brilliantly we need really special people on our team. So if you have a passion for achievement, set sky-high personal standards, want to work in a great environment and love delivering great service for customers you should think seriously about joining us.
