Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Job Title: Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Location: Northampton, NN4

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor you’ll benefit from:

Competitive salary
Company Car/Car Allowance
5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
Life Cover & Contributory Pension
Healthcare
Bonus
Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Health, Safety & Environment Team. This role typically reports to the Senior Health, Safety & Environment Advisor.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that health, safety and environment (HS&E) standards are met throughout the company.

What you’ll do as a Group Health, Safety & Environment Advisor

Developing, preparing, reviewing and enforcing HS&E plans across the region to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region
Identifying, risk assessing and reporting potential hazards and non-compliance issues during site visits, working with site management teams to ensure corrective action is taken and escalated where appropriate to maintain company safety standards
Producing accurate and timely management reports and management information, such as non-compliance figures, potential hazards and further escalations to enable management teams to deliver a safety first approach
Regularly inspecting construction activity on site, meeting company targets, ensuring compliance with the Group HS&E Policy and overarching HS&E legislation. Including periodic out of hours inspections to ensure safe and compliant operation of the region
Carrying out incident led investigations and report applicable incidents to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR to ensure adherence to Government regulations.
Managing and monitoring contractors’ performance against their Risk Assessment and Method Statements to ensure HS&E risks are minimised
Effectively communicating with Regulatory Enforcement Agencies such as the HSE, Local Authority and Environment Agency, maintaining good relationships
Providing HS&E advice, information and training to the business to ensure up to date HS&E standards are maintained, including regular HS&E meetings are undertaken and recorded
Managing any referrals through the safety concerns line, to ensure that when necessary corrective action has been taken to maintain the company values on being customer focused and social impact

What do we need from you?

Fully aware of key HS&E legislation including the Construction Design and Management Regulations
Excellent organisational skills, being able to manage own time to meet targets and deadlines.
Strong verbal communication skills, being able to develop strong relationships with all levels of the business from site teams to senior management
Excellent written communication skills, being able to produce accurate reports and maintain both written and IT based reporting systems
A good understanding of Microsoft Products, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
A NEBOSH National General Certificate in Health and Safety and/ or NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction (or equivalent)
Ideally a higher level H&S qualification (or working towards this), such as: City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Practice; Level 6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety; NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, Level 6; or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety
Ideally a member of IOSH

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