About the role
Wellbeing Behavioural Safety Advisor - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid working available)
Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
As we progress through AMP8 – our most ambitious asset management period to date – we’re delivering nature‑based and sustainable infrastructure, from wetlands to urban drainage schemes, setting new benchmarks for environmental performance.
To ensure we can outperform against the Anglian Water business plan, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Wellbeing Behavioural Safety Advisor to join us and lead on our Water Recycling projects across the region responsible for the delivery of a capital investment programme.
What you'll be doing
What will you be doing as our new Wellbeing Behavioural Safety Advisor?
You’ll support the practical delivery of the WB & BHS Strategy across Strategic Alliance sites.
Working alongside operational teams and HSW colleagues and connected to the WB & BHS Team, the role helps improve wellbeing, psychological safety and everyday safety behaviours through site engagement, observation, coaching and site based learning activities. As a trainee role, the postholder will work within their competence while developing specialist knowledge and facilitation capability.
Key responsibilities
- Support site-based delivery of the Wellbeing & Behavioural Safety (WB & BHS) Strategy and Safer Every Day principles across Strategic Alliances working closely site teams and the wider advisor community.
- Work with project teams, supervisors, frontline workers and the supply chain to embed wellbeing, psychological safety and positive safety behaviours into everyday work.
- Provide visible site based operational support through site engagement, observation, coaching, facilitated conversations and targeted interventions.
- Explore human and organisational factors that influence how work is done, including conditions that support safe and healthy performance.
- Deliver WB & BHS briefings, training, campaigns and improvement activities in partnership with operational teams.
- Gather workforce insights and feedback to identify emerging themes and practical improvement opportunities.
- Work alongside operational HSW Advisors without duplicating technical inspections, compliance assurance or incident investigation responsibilities.
- Commitment to inclusive and psychologically safe practice
- Willingness to develop WB & BHS specialist competence
Who we're looking for
What does it take to be successful?
- Experience in operational wellbeing, safety or workforce engagement
- Understanding of workplace wellbeing, mental health and safe working behaviours
- Experience communicating with frontline teams and managers
- Ability to facilitate briefings, discussions or learning activities
- Understanding of confidentiality and appropriate escalation
- Confidence engaging with people at all organisational levels
- Ability to gather, record and interpret operational feedback
- Ability to observe work without premature judgement
If you’re passionate about people, wellbeing and creating safer, more supportive workplaces, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us make every day safer across the @one Alliance.
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?
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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via [email protected]
#J-18808-Ljbffr