Job Description

We are looking for a hands-on Health & Safety Advisor to promote safe and sustainable working practices across our operational areas. This will include a range of sites, such as water treatment works , construction projects and work in the highway.

Working closely with front-line and production teams, you will play a key part in driving our ambition of Zero Harm by influencing behaviours, building strong relationships on site, and ensuring our health, safety and wellbeing objectives are achieved across the organisation, whilst ensuring all our customers supply of wholesome water.

This is a field-based role covering sites across the M4/M25 corridor, including Chertsey, Staines, Heathrow, Rickmansworth and the surrounding areas, offering plenty of variety and the opportunity to build strong relationships with teams across multiple locations.We're looking for someone who enjoys being out on site, engaging directly with people, and influencing a positive health and safety culture through visibility, coaching and practical support - not just compliance. If you're someone who thrives in a varied, operational environment where no two days are the same, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

What makes this role different?

Every day, our customers depend on us to provide a reliable supply of clean, wholesome drinking water. Behind the scenes, that relies on thousands of people carrying out essential work safely, from operating treatment works and maintaining assets to delivering construction projects and repairing the network.

In this role, you'll play a vital part in making that happen.

By helping our teams identify and manage risk, supporting safe decision-making, and building a positive safety culture on site, you'll help ensure our people return home safely while enabling the uninterrupted delivery of an essential public service.

This is not a role where you sit behind a desk reviewing paperwork. You'll be out where the work happens, engaging with operational teams, understanding real-world challenges and influencing positive change. Your visibility, coaching and practical support will help create safer workplaces, stronger teams and a more resilient water supply for our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct site inspections and H&S audits across operational, highway, and construction sites to ensure compliance and best practice
• Work closely with production and front-line teams to identify hazards and challenge unsafe behaviours
• Work with operational teams to develop and improve safe ways of working, embedding safety at all stages of work
• Build strong rapport with teams on site and act as a trusted advisor, influencing positive safety culture
• Provide coaching and guidance to stakeholders on health and safety matters
• Investigate significant incidents, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions
• Lead incident reviews with key stakeholders
• Support the development and review of risk assessments, method statements, and permits
• Deliver training, awareness briefings, and health & safety initiatives
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of H&S policies, procedures, and practices

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Experience within water, utilities, infrastructure, or construction sectors
• Handling hazardous chemicals safely in a workplace environment - desirable
• Knowledge of COSHH regulations and safe substance management practices - desirable
• Proven, hands-on experience working on live operational and/or construction sites
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practice
• Good technical understanding of construction, utilities, or engineering environments
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and manage a regional, site-based workload
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Technical Membership of IOSH

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Diploma (or working towards)
• Awareness of COMAH requirements (desirable)

Benefits:

• Salary from £42,000 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.

Disability Confident

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.