Safety Business Partner - Reservoirs

Location:Peterborough & Hybrid Working Contract:Fulltime Permanent
Salary:Up to 90000 Plus Car Allowance Excellent Benefits Package based on experience
Closing Date:5th June 2025

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office/site. Your based location would be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough but there would be travel across the Anglian Water region as part of your role.

Refreshingly different careers

Are you a senior health and safety professional with a proven track record of leading major infrastructure projects from the ground up Do you want to play a pivotal role in delivering one of the UKs most ambitious water infrastructure programmes If so this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Anglian Water is delivering the multibillionpoundFens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs Programme and were looking for aSafety Business Partner Reservoirsto lead the safety and wellbeing strategy across the entire lifecycle of this nationally significant project.

These schemes in the Fens and Lincolnshire are the UKs largest water projects under the water sector regulator Ofwat/RAPIDs national Strategic Resource Option programme. Together they will secure water supplies for future generations across the East of England. Both are Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NCIPs) requiring development consent order (DCO) planning approvals and the establishment of new delivery contract arrangements with associated project financing.

As the Safety Business Partner you will be the strategic lead for all health safety and wellbeing activity across the Reservoirs Programme. Reporting to the Head of Health and Safety and working closely with the Programme Director you will be embedded in the leadership team to ensure safety is integrated into every decision and every phase of the programme.

This is not just a compliance role its a leadership position that requires vision influence and the ability to drive cultural change. You will be responsible for shaping the safety strategy from the earliest planning stages through procurement design construction and into operational readiness.

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

Competitive pension scheme Anglian Water doublematches your contributions up to 6%

A car allowance

Personal private health care

Annual bonus scheme

26 days leave rising with service Bank Holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

Life Cover at 8x your salary

Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

Free parking at all offices site and leisure parks

Excellent family friendly policies such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

What youll be doing:

Lead the development and implementation of the safety and wellbeing strategy for the Reservoirs Programme aligned with Anglian WatersSafer Every Dayculture.

Provide expert safety input from project inception through to completion including earlystage planning contractor procurement enabling works and construction.

Lead project health and safety professionals (including those from partners and supply chain) in ensuring health safety and wellbeing processes are in place for all aspects of programme activity which will include (but is not limited to); onboarding and induction largescale site survey and ground investigation works and enabling works facilitation/construction activities.

Develop and report on safety KPIs and metrics providing insight and assurance to senior leadership and driving continuous improvement.

Ensure compliance with CDM Regulations and other legal obligations including client duties and assurance against Regulation 4.

Support the development of emergency response and crisis management plans for the programme.

What does it take to be successful

Extensive experience in a senior health & safety role

Relevant Safety qualifications or certifications including NEBOSH CSP or a Health and Safety related Masters Degree or Diploma

Proven experience of working on major/mega infrastructure project development or experience on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) under the Development Consent Order (DCO) regime)

Experience of proactively driving a positive safety culture within supply chains

Experience of emergency response and crisis planning.

Ability to produce documentation and reports for a range of audiences (both strategic and tactical)

Experience of strong stakeholder management and business partnering relationships

Ability to work with and influence directors and senior leaders to ensure the adoption of a leading health and safety culture

Full UK Driving Licence

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Communitys Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer and we play a leading part in the Womens Utility Network.

Closing date: 5th June 2025

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