HSQE Advisor in Cumbria

Job description

Aureos are hiring for a HSQE Advisor to join our Highways team based in Penrith, Cumbria. This is a permanent office/site-based role.

The role will involve the provision of competent health, safety, quality (assurance) and site environmental advice supporting the A66 NTP Project. Ensuring inspections and guidance for the site staff and management team is carried out. Providing challenge where required and not walking by. Promotion of safe equipment, standards and method of working. Showing the behaviours expected and leading by example at all times.

Primary Tasks and Duties

• Be a visible presence on site to identify unsafe working practices and conditions.
• Encourage quality contributions and ensure timely close out and feedback is actioned, promote lessons learnt and good practice sharing.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with site teams, clients and other stakeholders.
• Promotion of health and wellbeing support and directing staff where required.
• Prepare and deliver workforce (including subcontractors) engagement (toolbox talks, awareness sessions).
• Lead on and support incident investigations.
• Proactively improve in reducing risk through the planning process.
• Take an active role in developing, maintaining and promoting a positive HSQE culture.

Secondary Tasks and Duties

• Assisting the operational team with reviewing of CDM documentation.
• Assurance of process and working methods.
• Ensuring compliance with Aureos standards and client requirements.
• Undertaking reviews of risk assessment, method statements and task briefings.
• Provide support and advice for staff to aid and promote sustainable practices.
• Ensure all investigation findings and associated actions are closed within the required timescales.
• Promote the closure of NCR’s and OFI’s within the project.

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• NEBOSH General Certificate / Construction
• Experience of Civil Engineering works
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Driving Licence
• CSCS

Desirable

• Environmental Qualification (e.g. ISEP/IEMA, NEBOSH Env Cert.)
• Mental Health First Aider
• Kelvin Top Set 1 day
• National Highways Passport

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of construction, civils and/or highways projects.
• Industrial knowledge across the infrastructure Services areas of Business
• Knowledge of HSQE management systems
• Site inspections and risk assessment experience
• Working knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent listening behaviours
• Positive attitude
• Ability to work weekends when required.
• Ability to work overtime when required.
• Ability to use IT systems including Microsoft 365, and HSQE specific systems.
• Excellent time management and relationship skills, comfortably working effectively within a broad range of working environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills able to communicate clearly to inform and influence others; uses appropriate, effective methods to deliver messages.
• Embraces and drives continuous improvement, challenging the status quo for the benefit of the business, supporting learning and development.
• Hands on approach to problem solving
• Excellent standard of written and numerical literacy

In return you will receive

• Generous Salary
• 25 days Holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Pension
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Assistance and Wellbeing support

Equal opportunities

Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Cumbria

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

09-10-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English