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SHE Advisor

  • Location: South West, TR1
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 23 days ago

  • Sector: Infrastructure
  • Contact: Laura Smith
  • Contact Email: lsmith@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: 0191 415 3300
  • Start Date: 07 August 2025
  • Expiry Date: 28 August 2025
  • Job Ref: V-283419

NRL are currently recruiting for a SHE Advisor for a large contracting businesses who offer a broad scope of services including mechanical, electrical, high voltage, electrical vehicle (EV) infrastructure installation, test and inspection services, as well as street lighting.

Job Title: SHE Advisor 

Base Location: South West England

Rate: Competitive  

Our client is seeking a SHE (Safety, Health, and Environmental) Advisor to support their Highways Electrical business, which holds significant PFI contracts across Cornwall, Devon, South Wales and Somerset.
In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring compliance with safety standards, occupational health regulations, and environmental policies across multiple projects.

In a typical day, you could expect to be; 

  • Monitoring SHE performance at Regional and Depot level. Reporting to Operational Management on good performance / best practice as well as deficiencies and opportunities for improvement.

  • Provision of key support with regards to the development and implementation of improvement actions, initiatives, and plans. 

  • Assisting in the management of the company’s environmental responsibilities in compliance with environmental requirements. 

  • Investigating accidents, incidents and near misses and sharing lessons learned. 

  • Reviewing documentation for appropriate health & safety content (RAMS, CPPs etc). 

  • Visiting our sites and advising site management on day-to-day SHE matters. 

  • Supporting project teams on adherence to relevant legislation and both Enerveo and Client expectations. 

  • Promoting and encouraging best practice. 

  • Delivering toolbox talks on health, safety, environmental and wellbeing themes. 

  • Health and wellbeing promotional campaigns. 

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What do I need to be successful in the role? 

  • Passionate about the Profession and display a proactive approach to the role

  • Experience, knowledge and understanding of the application of SHE management principles and best practice within an operational environment. 

  • Proven track record of engaging effectively with stakeholders in SHE matters and requirements. 

  • Experience of developing and improving processes, and driving SHE performance 

  • We would ideally want you to come from a Construction, Mechanical or Electrical engineering or a DNO background. 

  • Willingness to challenge unsatisfactory conditions or breaches. 

  • Excellent IT skills with experience in using Teams, Excel and Databases. 

  • You will have a professional approach, be self-organised and motivated to positively influence stakeholders. 

  • Competent in incident investigation, and trend analysis. 

  • A minimum of NEBOSH certificate in an occupational health, safety or environmental topic

  • Ideally, Associate / Tech / Grad Member of IOSH and IEMA membership 

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This role is for an initial period of 3 months however there is the possibility that it will go longer term.

If this is of interest, please apply with an up to date CV or call me to discuss further.  

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