Health Safety & Wellbeing Advisor

Who are we?

Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.

What you will be doing

As the Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HS&W) Adviser you will be providing professional advice in London's Waste Networks Tideway Integration Group (TIG) to management and employees. This is a once in a life time historic construction project that will benefit London for generations to come. This is the biggest sewer upgrade project since Joseph Bazalgette's engineering masterpiece which serves the capital today.

You will be responsible for advising on some of the key projects required to facilitate the significant capital investment programmes. These projects will provide essential facilitation of safe sewer access and programme delivery for the Tideway Tunnel.
To deliver the TW Safety, Health, and Wellbeing Strategy, and ensure compliance with TW HS&W management system, standards, processes, and procedures. This role can be based at various locations within the London area, with some working from home.

We're looking for you to:

• To have technical knowledge of wastewater operations would be advantageous, with a strong experience of confined spaces, isolations/permits, and knowledge of CDM. Assist with the enabling of confined space sewer entries and ensuring safe and secure isolations are provided.
• In-depth knowledge of Safety, Health and Wellbeing legislation and able to advise stakeholders which will include Wholesale and support service staff and contractors on of Safety, Health and Wellbeing matters including compliance with applicable legislation and industry best practice by liaising with enforcing authorities and professional groups.
• Delivery of successful local Safety, Health, and Wellbeing programmes with a customer focus and ability to deliver and monitor performance against the Safety, Health and Wellbeing strategy and objectives, system, standards, processes and procedures.
• Relevant work experience in a technical discipline and raise awareness in the business and delivery of training in line with the annual training plan outside of core H&S team training.
• Excellent communications skills - written and verbal and able to communicate with senior business leaders.
• Lead and undertaking audits/inspections and incident investigations, identify non-compliance, root cause analysis, risks and agree action list/ plan with the site management and report statistical information as required.
• Assist in the review and agreement process of safe systems of work and risk assessments where there is a significant risk to safety and the environment.
• Minimum NEBOSH certificate with extensive experience. Ideally NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent and a chartered member of IOSH (CMIOSH.)
• Full UK Driving license

What's in it for you!

London relies on a 150-year-old sewer system built for a population less than half its current size. As a result, millions of tonnes of raw sewage spills, untreated, into the River Thames each year. A 25km Super Sewer is being constructed under the River Thames by Tideway to intercept those nasty spills and clean up our river for the good of the city, its wildlife, and you.

This role will cover all of the London Region in Thames Waters Waste Networks for the Tideway Construction Project. The role will be based in London but with flexible working from home.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.

We're proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment, so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites, and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you'll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and unparalleled benefits. We're also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.