Health And Safety Advisor
2 days ago
Lincoln
Job Title Health and Safety Advisor Location Lincoln, Lincolnshire Full-time, site-based 07:30 - 17:00 Salary / Rate £300 - £330 per day Outside IR35 LTD / CIS / Self-Employed About the Role We are recruiting for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join a live earthworks package on a new-build commercial project for a large-scale industrial unit in Lincoln. This is a 12-week contract starting ASAP, with a clear brief: provide visible, practical, day-to-day health and safety leadership on site during a key phase of mobilisation and delivery. You will act as the dedicated H&S presence on site, working closely with site management, project leadership and the wider delivery team to maintain standards, monitor compliance, and support safe project execution across an active earthworks environment. This role will suit someone who is comfortable in a site-based construction or civil engineering setting, can build credibility with operational teams, and is confident balancing compliance, audit readiness and practical problem-solving on a live project. Key Responsibilities • Act as the dedicated on-site Health and Safety Advisor for the earthworks package, • Support the safe delivery of works on a live construction site, • Oversee day-to-day health and safety compliance across site activities, • Carry out regular site inspections, observations and safety monitoring, • Ensure safe systems of work are understood and followed by site teams, • Maintain health and safety documentation, records and reporting, • Support incident prevention, corrective actions and continuous improvement, • Liaise with site management, supervisors and the Safety Director, • Provide practical H&S guidance within a fast-moving earthworks and industrial build environment, • Support client-facing safety matters where required, • Assist with audit, compliance and CDM-related activities, • Previous experience in a site-based Health and Safety Advisor or similar H&S role, • Strong background in construction, civil engineering or earthworks environments, • Experience supporting safety on live projects, • Good working knowledge of CDM, • Able to work closely with operational teams and site leadership, • NEBOSH, • Experience on groundworks, bulk earthworks, remediation, civils or infrastructure-led projects, • Background on industrial, commercial build or large-scale site development schemes, • Experience with contractor management, inspections, audits and compliance reporting, • Comfortable dealing with both internal teams and client representatives on site You will be joining an earthworks contractor delivering works on a large-scale new-build industrial unit. This is a hands-on, site-led contract where the successful person will have genuine ownership of day-to-day H&S standards and will be expected to operate as the main safety point of contact on site, reporting into the Safety Director. Best-Fit Candidates This role is likely to suit candidates currently working as: • Health and Safety Advisor, • Site Safety Advisor, • HSE Advisor, • SHE Advisor, • Health and Safety Officer, • Construction Safety Advisor, • Civils HSE Advisor, • Earthworks contractors, • Groundworks contractors, • Civil engineering contractors, • Infrastructure contractors, • Industrial build contractors, • Commercial build main contractors, • Enabling works contractors, • Roads and highways, • Utilities civils, • Rail civils, • Industrial sheds and logistics developments, • Large distribution centres, • Heavy commercial build projects, • Bulk excavation, • Cut and fill operations, • Temporary haul roads, • Plant-heavy construction sites, • Principal contractor or subcontractor environments, • CDM-led construction programmes