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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our Health and Safety team with a Service Avoidance Expert & Trainer based across the Severn Trent Region

You will report directly to the Health and Safety manager and your role will be w
orking within the Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality (SHEQ) team, you will help support and embed our service avoidance strategy for the region. You will have a working practical knowledge of all current service location and avoidance practices, including industry best practice. Supporting our operational teams, you will provide guidance and support to ensure our workforce are confident in their ability to locate, mark and avoid underground and above ground services. Give continuous support to ensure our workforce are implementing industry standard safe digging practices.

.Key responsibilities will include

  • Assist site teams to establish local, specific, service avoidance plan which promotes our ‘Vac Ex as first principal’ approach.
  • Provide competency assessments for new employees and subcontractors in the use of service avoidance equipment (Cat & Genny)
  • Provide incident investigation support
  • Proactively champion innovation and best practice in Service Avoidance
  • Review Cat & Genny usage data and provide upskilling/coaching where identified
  • Coaching and mentoring of safe dig practices

About You

Essential
  • A passion for training others and create great practices to strive towards best practice
  • Self-Motivated to achieving the highest standards of service avoidance
  • Good knowledge of the PAS128 standard for utility mapping, in addition to having experience using Electro-magnetic locating equipment (EUSR Cat 1).
  • Safe dig practices (EUSR Cat2 or equivalent) from a previous operational background
  • Knowledge of good practice in construction, e.g. HSE guidance and approved codes of practice. (HSG47, GS6)
  • Knowledge of current statutory health and safety law in the UK
  • Knowledge of Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM)
  • The ability to travel around the region as required
 
Desirable 
  • Formal qualification in Occupational Safety and Health (e.g. NEBOSH Construction Certificate) or proven industry practical-based experience
  • CSCS card or affiliated scheme (SHEA Water)
  • Good IT skills


About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include - 

  • A competitive salary
  • Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
  • Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
  • Contribution Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

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