Health and Hygiene Graduate London 2024

Are you looking to start your career after your studies? Our Early Careers programme gives you the opportunity to challenge yourself and be part of the solution to make the world work better.

The Early Careers programme we offer has been carefully developed by the business so that you will become the best professional you can be. We want to bring out the best of your abilities whilst giving you a deep insight into the world of Infrastructure Engineering so then you can be the catalyst for change.

You'll learn. You'll gain skills. You'll explore our business and our sectors having real control over where you go and what you experience next. And you'll do it all as part of a busy community of Apprentices, Year in Industry students and Graduates.

This role will look at the fundamentals of occupational hygiene, health, and wellbeing. The role-holder will work with the health team to provide an integrated approach to health across Balfour Beatty. They will support business units/ projects to understand and manage health risks and learn how to deliver positive health outcomes through health risk management and wellbeing interventions across all our projects. Training will be provided on the principles of occupational health, hygiene and wellbeing and allow flexibility to progress into a specialized role across one of the disciplines.

What you'll be doing

• To support the delivery of the health and wellbeing strategy for the UK.
• To support delivery of a full and proactive health and wellbeing service throughout the UK business.
• To support the implementation of occupational health, hygiene, and wellbeing initiatives.
• To support health promotion activities and contribute to health-related campaigns by assisting in the preparation and dissemination of promotional material.
• To support wider health initiative groups e.g. Health Champions, Fatal Risks Groups and other health related forums to support the business.
• To support site visits to ensure projects understand health related matters and are delivering in line with our Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
• To support the health team to ensure sound hygiene principles are being used effectively within the business.
• To maintain confidentiality in line with The Data Protection Act.
• To manage all health-related SharePoint material and page creation.

Undertake accredited training in the disciplines of occupational health management, occupational hygiene, and wellbeing.

Who we're looking for

• A minimum of a 2:2 in an undergraduate degree or equivalent
• Eligibility to work and live in the UK at the time of joining
• Passionate about health including both the management of health risks at work and the delivery of positive health-related outcomes
• Flexibility to travel, ideally holding a full UK drivers licence at the time of joining to support travel requirements
• A team focus with the ability to communicate and build strong relationships with a wide variety of people at all levels
• Collaborative, reliable, proactive and able to meet deadlines with a keen attention to detail and quality
• Advanced knowledge of MS office- Word, Excel, Outlook
• Occupational health, hygiene or wellbeing knowledge an advantage.

Why work for us?

To ensure you feel prepared and informed at each stage of our recruitment journey, we wanted to share with you our key stages;

Stage one: getting to know you Our team will review applications and if shortlisted for a role with us, you will be contacted by one of our amazing recruiters. They will be keen to hear about your interests and enthusiasm to join Balfour Beatty and will talk you though the next steps.

Stage two: In-person or online interview This is the final stage of our recruitment journey and is where we get to meet you in person, either in one of our offices, or online via Teams. For us, the most exciting part as we love hearing all about you. We also want to ensure you are getting the most out of your recruitment journey, so it's important you are curious and ask us questions too!

About us

Join us! We are more than construction. Every day, our projects change the way the world looks and improve the way it works. And because we do more, you will too! So don't hesitate, our application window is open until midnight on 19th April 2024. If you think you can make a difference here at Balfour Beatty then apply today! At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you.