Safety Health and Wellbeing Advisor

Company: Scottish and Southern Energy
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Location: Aberdeen
Job Description:

Overview

As an SHW Advisor, you will provide proactive safety, health and wellbeing and CDM guidance across Transmission projects, with emphasis on development, design, planning and pre-construction. You will work with project teams and stakeholders to identify and manage SHW risks throughout the lifecycle and support safe handover into delivery. The role supports a healthy, safe workplace and compliant delivery of complex infrastructure work. A key part of the role is applying practical judgment to influence design risk management.

Pay / Benefits

  • car or car allowance
  • performance-related bonus
  • private healthcare discounts
  • gym membership discounts
  • online GP and 24/7 counselling
  • Cycle to Work scheme

Responsibilities

  • Provide proactive SHW and CDM advice to Transmission project teams and directorates across development, design, planning and pre-construction
  • Assist with compliance of CDM Regulations, Safe Systems of Work, and SHW Management System requirements
  • Develop strategies to manage interfaces, temporary works, surveys, ground investigations and site clearance during construction
  • Complete assurance activities on and off site, monitor SHW performance and support incident reporting and learning initiatives
  • Support design risk management and Designer Risk Assessments, Pre-Construction Information and construction-phase planning
  • Engage with designers, duty holders and contractors to promote safe delivery and robust handover into delivery and construction

Key requirements

  • Experience applying SHW and CDM across construction or infrastructure projects
  • Qualification in occupational safety, construction safety, CDM, or design risk management or related SHW discipline
  • Knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
  • Experience supporting design risk management and safe systems of work
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • strong communication
  • stakeholder management
  • relationship building
  • SHW and CDM knowledge
  • design risk management
  • pre-construction and early works planning

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Posted: October 1st, 2026