Graduate Health - London, United Kingdom - Costain Group PLC

Description

Graduate Health & Safety Advisor - High Speed Rail 2

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate Health & Safety Advisor to support the SHE team working on HS2

About the Project:

The HS2 Main Civils Contracts include both Lots S1 (Euston Tunnels & Approaches) and S2 (Northolt Tunnels). The role will be based in the West Delivery Unit supporting the delivery of earthworks and reinforced concrete packages including a cut and cover tunnel and multiple head house structures.

Security Vetting:

HS2 requires SCS to undertake security vetting on all staff to the UK Government Baseline Personal Security Standard. All successful candidates will be subject to this vetting procedure as part of the on-boarding process.

Location: West Delivery Unit - West Ruislip, London

Key Tasks & Responsibilities :

Understand the Company Health & Safety and Environmental Policies and Processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company's operations and ensure that the requirements are implemented.

Assist in providing advice on the practical implementation of the company's SHE policies and processes

Assist SHE manager or delegate and Contract Management in understanding of stakeholders (internal and external) aims, priorities and risks with regards to SHE

Assist with the development of Health, Safety and Environmental Management plans if applicable and coordination of review

Assist in providing operational and functional management with advice on the prevention of accidents, incidents and ill health

Provide advice and guidance for obtaining legal consents, licenses and exemptions such as discharge consents, abstraction licenses and waste management licenses as and when required and as directed.

Task and assist the SHE Manager and other members of the SHE team, in key tasks to assist in the development, management, implementation and monitoring of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System.

Costain Graduate Development Programme:

The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and of course, the technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job.

The programme is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond. We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months, to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company.

Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way.
In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership.

Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period, in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports and tunnels.

About you:

BSc in Health & Safety Management orHealth, Safety and Environment Management or Environment Management Orequivalent

Undergraduatestudy or equivalent diploma that gains IOSH Technical Safety Practitioner

Statusor Graduate IEMA

Experience of delivering presentations, talking in public etc

Excellent organisations, communication and time management skills

Havepassion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets

Awillingness to learn with appropriate instruction

Excelat building and maintaining positive relationships

Theability to thrive in pressured situations

Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout theUK

*Pleasenote that if you are invited to interview, we will require you to produce yourpassport and/or right to work documentation

As some ofour project sites are based in remote locations, it is worth noting that youwill be required to have the ability to travel to site

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us:

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A DisabilityConfident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant thatdeclares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job asdefined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitmentsituations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer maywish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled peopleand non-disabled people. For more details please go to For more detailsplease go to the Disability Confident website:

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