Chemical Safety and CoSHH Advisor

Job title: CHemical Safety Advisor and CoSHH Advisor

Job Type: On-site

IR35 Status: Inside of IR35

Start date: TBC

Duration: Contract, Initial CED 31/12/2025

Salary/ Pay rate/ Benefits: TBC DOE, Daily rate, PAYE or Umbrella

Location: Bridgwater

Hours of work: 40 hrs , 5 days/ wk

Job Purpose / Overview

The Chemical Safety and CoSHH Advisors will provide high-quality technical advice on the management of chemicals on the site supporting safety, health, fire and environment functions to deliver a safe working environment on one of Europe's largest and busiest construction sites. The role will involve providing support and coaching to contract partner COSHH Co-ordinators as well as supporting the site's migration into a COMAH-regulated site as commissioning of the power station approaches. The role will also involve providing advice to the site's emergency response capability to ensure that the right response tools are in place.

Contextual Information

Operating Environment

Hinkley Point C is a major infrastructure project requiring expertise and support of many other contractor organisations to deliver the project safely, to the right quality, on schedule and within budget. To provide assurance to our stakeholders that the project will be delivered safely and that we are controlling all potential hazards and safety risks, this position is required to support any activity that can help control site wide risks to the project. The project presents unusual challenges with numerous contractors working in close proximity to tight schedules.

The project therefore provides an rare opportunity for develop exceptional skills in the management of chemical risks in dynamic conditions, supported by a wide range of subject matter experts.

Framework & Boundaries

The Chemical Safety and CoSHH will report to the Site Environmental Engineering Lead.

The post holder will develop a 'one-team' working relationship with all key stakeholders and external stakeholders always providing clear communication and support to internal departments, programme teams and external stakeholders ensuring emergency arrangements are suitable and sufficient against the current and future risk profile.

Principal Accountabilities

Chemical Safety and CoSHH Advisor, providing advice and support safety, health, fire, environment and emergency response teams
Manage and assure the site's chemical inventory supporting compliance with regulatory requirements including COMAH
Develop the arrangements associated with safe chemical storage and the operation of a COMAH site
Assess contractor requests to bring products to site and ensure that Subject Matter Experts are consulted as required
Coach and support contract partners to reach the high standards and chemical safety demanded at site
Identify hazards that require addition mitigation or response measures and advise the relevant stakeholders
Support the delivery of an improved chemical management system for the unique circumstances at HPC
Identify chemical hazards and support specialists and contract partners to assess the risks and identify mitigation
Support the development of an effective Chemical Management Community of Best Practice across the organisationDimensions

This position does not hold any line management or budgetary responsibility. The post holder will normally work within policy guidelines under the managerial guidance of the Site Environmental Engineering Lead. However, in view of the unpredictable nature of the job, a significant degree of autonomy and appropriate decision making is expected of the post holder when working on his/ her own.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Highly skilled in instruction and presentation skills and communicates effectively both orally and in writing.
Maintains a confident and resilient attitude in highly challenging situations.
Ability to build a wide network and works effectively with others.
Understands, recalls, applies and adapts relevant information in an organised, safe and systematic way.
Ability to provide strategic and tactical advice to multiple stakeholders understanding and acknowledging different stakeholder's needs.
Good organisational skills with practical and with the ability to manage several concurrent activities.
A dynamic individual who is a team player that is pro-active and flexible and who can work on their own initiative across a broad range of issues to review compliance.
A broad knowledge of chemical hazards and mitigation including potential for interactions giving rise to new hazards
Knowledge of relevant regulations and guidanceDesirable

Effective negotiating and influencing skills with the ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to be self-motivating and manage own workload and priorities to meet the team's goals and targets.
The ability to influence and to provide constructive challenge which is accepted by others.
The ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Knowledge of workflow management software tools, PowerBI and GIS
HAZMAT Spill and Environmental emergency response.Qualifications & Experience

Desirable

Experience of building effective professional relationships in a construction environment
Experience in waste classification and hazardous waste management
Awareness of environmental management and toxicology assessments
Experience of DSEAR assessments
Experience in process safety

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