Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are currently looking for a HSEQ Field Advisor to join our Water team who have an excellent track record in supporting the water industry and airports is resulting in substantial and exciting growth of our Water & Environment Team.

A key component of our growth is our multidisciplinary fieldwork team who capture hydrometry, water quality, ecological and aerial imagery data from terrestrial, river, groundwater and coastal environments. As well as looking after a European Region of small offices’.  To support this team, we require a HSEQ Field Advisor to oversee all aspects of fieldwork safety, with a particular focus on water safety. 

Key Responsibilities

• You will work as part of a wider Health and Safety management team, providing specific oversight for fieldwork activities. 
• The role will have responsibilities for the management of our risk assessment processes, method statements and guidance, requiring a familiarisation with the activities we undertake in the field and appraisal of the issues and risks faced.
• You will manage the auditing of our field teams against our procedures, identifying areas for improvement and training requirements. 
• Critical to this role is an appreciation of the full range of risks faced from operating in the full range of outdoor environments.
• Ideally having experience of implementing and overseeing fieldwork safety policies, you will have an ambition to help drive our business forward by maintaining our excellent health and safety record and spearheading future improvements. 
• A key requirement is for effective integration of health and safety improvements into our day-to-day fieldwork consultancy services.
• Act as regional advisor for all HSEQ requirements and ensure they are delivered throughout the region.
• Understand local regulatory and standards requirements and define their impact on the business.
• Show leadership in ensuring compliance to the relevant standards, including ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001.
• Provision of regular status reporting to the HSEQ Manager in relation to the trends, status, key issues and actions surrounding the HSEQ function.
• Lead HSE Forums for the region.

Key Competencies and Experience

• We are looking to appoint a HSEQ Field Advisor who has relevant experience in delivering safety management in the outdoor environment.
• Of particular interest is an understanding of and experience in river and coastal environments.
• Understanding of relevant UK Health and Safety regulations.
• NEBOSH or NCRQ Certificate and relevant membership of IOSH.
• Outdoor risk assessment and method statement management.
• Small boat handling experience with appropriate RYA/MCA certification.
• Management of personal protective equipment.
• Management of health and safety training programme.
• Site visit auditing experience.
• A clean full UK driving licence.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.