Health Safety and Wellbeing Manager

About The Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Health and Safety Manager to join our Power Transmission & Distribution team on the Lower Thames Crossing project.

Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Health and Safety Manager to join our Power Transmission & Distribution team on the Lower Thames Crossing project. This is a key leadership role supporting the project through the utilities diversion phase, ensuring the safe delivery of excavation works in close proximity to live services, while maintaining full compliance with company procedures and statutory requirements. We are seeking a proactive health and safety professional with previous management experience, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to build effective relationships across project teams, clients, supply chain partners, and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will provide leadership, influence safe behaviours, and help drive a positive health and safety culture throughout the project. The Lower Thames Crossing will create a new connection beneath the River Thames, increasing capacity and reducing congestion across the South East of England. Once complete, it will be one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects, improving connectivity and supporting economic growth. Balfour Beatty is responsible for the design and delivery of over 10 miles of new highway, connecting the M25 at Junction 29 and the A13 with the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel at Tilbury, Essex. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of a nationally important infrastructure project while helping to shape industry-leading health and safety standards.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide day to day Health and Safety support to the project team
• Support the planning and delivery of works including review of risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Engage with operational teams to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements
• Monitor site activities and intervene where unsafe conditions or behaviours are identified
• Support the implementation of procedures relating to excavation and avoiding danger from services
• Work closely with project leadership to manage risk and drive safe behaviours
• Participate in inspections audits and incident investigations as required
• Support the continuous improvement of health and safety performance across the project

Who we're looking for

Key Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in Health and Safety management within utilities or civil engineering projects
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong knowledge of excavation and utility safety risks
• Experience working on high risk infrastructure projects
• Relevant qualifications e.g. NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent
• Professional membership such as CMIOSH is desirable but not essential

Working Arrangements

• This is a Full time role aligned to project working hours
• Integrated within the project team supporting delivery requirements
• Site based with regular interaction with operational teams

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit:

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