Graduate Opportunity - Trainee Health & Safety advisor, £26,500 + benefits- Bracknell, Berkshire

The Role

Do you have strong analytical skills and attention to detail?

Are you highly IT literate and proficient in Microsoft Office Packages?

Are you looking for an interesting, varied, challenging and rewarding Career?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

We are a multi- disciplinary construction consultancy company, looking to appoint a Graduate for a career in Construction Health & Safety, on a full-time basis, based in the Bracknell Office. 

Although this is a Graduate entry-level position, we envisage the Graduate (any Degree considered) will develop their Health & Safety career with the company over the next few years – progressing through relevant training, experience and industry courses.

This is an excellent opportunity to enter the Health and Safety industry, gain real project experience visit sites and work with our FTSE 100 clients.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Preparation and co-ordination of electronic Health & Safety documents, including assessing information in surveys and reports
• Site visits to record and photograph site information, boundaries and traffic access restrictions, to identify potential site-specific risks
• Assisting the Principal Designer Team in any other required duties
• Identifying gaps in information and liaising with Clients & Project Teams to address additional requirements
• Liaison with Clients, Consultants and Contractors, to obtain and manage information required for the compilation of documents
• Managing corporate documents, including issuing & receiving information to / from Clients and logging appropriately on the company server
• As a safety professional, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring workplace safety, compliance, and risk management.

The Company

GHPC Group Ltd is a multi-disciplinary construction consultancy covering the whole of the UK working with FTSE 100 Developers to support construction site workplace safety.

We offer key services to the construction industry from an experienced team of CDM Experts, Health and Safety Advisors, Chartered Surveyors, Project Managers, Defects Claims Experts.

We are passionate about what we do and care about every project and want to be the best we can be every day!

The Ideal Candidate

The key skills and qualities for this exciting Opportunity are:

Essential:

• Must be local to the Bracknell area.
• The right to live and work in the UK.
• A full, clean UK Driving Licence is mandatory.
• A keen eye for detail is absolutely essential for the role!
• Hold a Degree.
• Excellent written English.
• Excellent verbal communication skills are essential, with the ability to converse confidently. and clearly with people of all levels.
• Excellent telephone manner.
• The ability to read and interpret construction drawings.
• Highly IT literate and competent, experienced user of Microsoft Word packages is essential.
• The ability to learn the role of the job quickly, including learning & understanding the Construction Industry.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated individual able to work independently and integrate well as a team member; generally, possess a flexible attitude.
• A well-organised individual with the ability to multi-task.
• Smart (business appropriate) appearance, diplomatic and discreet nature and a general commitment to do what it takes to get the job done.

Benefits

• 25 Annual Holidays plus bank holidays.
• Training Opportunities.
• Flexible Working where appropriate.
• Private Medical Insurance after successful completion of Company’s Probationary Period.
• Company Sponsored Group Personal Pension Scheme.

If you are keen on joining this exciting, caring, company and taking the next step in your career, then please click the apply now button to find out more.

Contact information

Morag Bratchie