Health and Safety Graduate Scheme - Project & Programme Services

Degree requirements: Obtained or working towards a minimum of a 2.2 Bachelor’s degree in a Health and Safety related degree or alternatively Construction Management or Engineering type degrees with a strong interest in Occupational Health and Safety.

Typical locations: Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow
(Please note location availability may vary by team and during the campaign in line with application volumes and business needs. If your preferred options are not available, we encourage you to select an alternative.)

At Project & Programme Services, we’re a people business, a people business that wants to make a positive difference; a difference to the communities in which we live and operate, our client’s projects, and the careers of our talented workforce. Our graduates are the next generation of that workforce – they’re our future experts, and Project & Programme Services is committed to providing training and development to ensure that they, like all Project & Programme Services staff, have the best opportunity to fulfil their potential.

What you can bring

• A passion for working in a consultancy environment.
• Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do.
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team.
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation.
• Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll join us as a Graduate Health & Safety Consultant contributing to the success of a dynamic and specialised Consultancy Team. You will be working across a range both public and private sectors, delivering for key Clients, including universities, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, national & local government departments, on both new build and refurbishment construction projects and programmes of work. You will learn to work with these clients and your colleagues, learning to be confident, a good communicator, a problem solver, eventually becoming an expert in your field. This is an excellent opportunity to start a rewarding career with clear progression opportunities within an established structured framework, benefiting from formal and informal mentoring and work based learnings to compliment your continued professional development.

Initial day to day duties might include:

• Supporting clients with integrated CDM Principal Designer and advisory services across various project scales
• Participating in design risk management workshops, monitoring the design development from concept and feasibility right through to completion and in-use
• Visiting proposed sites to gather Pre construction Information (PCI) and identify hazards, constraints and risks
• Utilising digital tools and platforms to gain hands-on experience through live construction site visits and compliance auditing
• Helping to compile health & safety reports and review safety critical documentation and plans
• Being involved in developing existing, and new clients
• Establishing and maintaining design risk registers

Who we’re looking for

A talented Graduate with a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or above to work in a growing team of consultants. We’ll sponsor your training plan over the course of your programme.

You’ll have ambition, vision, enthusiasm and the drive to keep on developing your technical skills and achieve professional status relevant to your chosen specialist technical area. With a passion for working in a fully inclusive consultancy environment, you’ll want to work with clients and with teams who deliver to their customers.

You’ll be adaptable and a confident decision maker with excellent communication and team-working skills. You will also have the ability to apply your technical knowledge to analyse problems and create innovative solutions.

Training and development

Our training will help you solve real-life problems from day one and develop industry skills that are highly sought after. We can offer:

• Professional development which will be discussed throughout the Graduate Development Programme, supporting you in becoming a well-rounded H&S professional and obtaining IOSH Chartership.
• To achieve this, we will offer you a wide variety of work and projects to gain the requisite experience, using our bespoke competency framework.
• Skills for the effective application of the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015 through the development of a sound knowledge of safety in design.
• Access to core learning modules to develop your softer skills such as technical writing and presentation skills.
• Opportunities to travel to varied client and project locations.
• Other accredited training to suit your developing role such as Fire Safety and the NEBOSH Construction certificate.
• Annual Professional Development Review (PDR) including objective setting and follow up reviews every six months.