Health and Safety Advisor

  • Principal People Recruitment
  • Little Waltham, Essex
  • 30/04/2026
Full time Construction

Job Description

Health and Safety Advisor - £55,000 - £60,000 + £5,000 Car Allowance + Package - Highways - North London ID: 11607


Are you confident managing health and safety across live highways projects where risks change daily?

We re working with a growing highways contractor delivering long-term frameworks across North London. They ve secured significant work for the next 10 years and are expanding their HSEQ team to support this growth.

This is a hands-on role supporting operational teams across multiple boroughs, with a strong focus on surfacing, street works, and civil engineering activities.

Split across site and depot, you ll support contracts, influence behaviour, and drive standards on active highways works.


What you will be doing:

  • Provide practical H&S advice to site teams and management
  • Conduct site inspections, audits, and investigations
  • Review and improve RAMS and safe systems of work
  • Lead on service strike investigations and learnings
  • Support compliance with CDM Regulations 2015
  • Engage with temporary works processes and risks
  • Track actions and drive close-out of findings
  • Deliver toolbox talks and safety communications
  • Work closely with contracts managers and supervisors

What is in it for you:

  • £55,000 - £60,000 salary
  • £5,000 car allowance
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Company pension scheme
  • Health shield cover
  • Life and accident cover
  • Ongoing training and development support

What they re looking for:
This isn t an entry-level role. They need someone who understands highways risk.

  • NEBOSH General Certificate
  • Strong experience in Highways
  • Experience with: RAMS and SSOW / Temporary works / Service avoidance and excavations / Incident investigation
  • Confident communicator who can challenge when needed

If you ve worked on highways surfacing and want a role where you can genuinely influence standards on site, this is worth a conversation.

If you are interested in joining a growing business with a stable pipeline of works for the next 10 years, please apply today!