Health & Safety Engagement Specialist

The Role

We are seeking a proactive and engaging Health & Safety Engagement Specialist to support the successful delivery of major rail infrastructure projects across the UK.

Working closely with project teams, operational managers, and the wider Health, Safety & Environment function, you will play a key role in promoting a positive safety culture by driving workforce engagement, influencing behaviours, and embedding best practice across live rail environments.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about behavioural safety and creating lasting cultural change within complex, safety-critical projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver health and safety engagement strategies across multiple rail projects.

• Promote a proactive safety culture through behavioural safety initiatives and workforce engagement campaigns.

• Plan and facilitate toolbox talks, safety stand-downs, workshops, and interactive engagement sessions.

• Coach project managers, supervisors, and frontline teams in effective safety leadership and communication.

• Encourage the reporting of close calls, hazards, and safety observations while promoting a strong learning culture.

• Produce engaging health and safety communications including presentations, newsletters, videos, posters, and digital content.

• Support the implementation of behavioural safety programmes aimed at reducing incidents and improving workforce participation.

• Analyse safety performance, engagement metrics, and workforce feedback to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.

• Work collaboratively with Health & Safety Advisors and operational teams to ensure engagement activities complement legal compliance and project objectives.

• Promote initiatives relating to wellbeing, mental health, fatigue management, and occupational health where appropriate.

• Support incident reviews by helping communicate lessons learned and driving continuous improvement across projects.

• Build strong working relationships with clients, contractors, supply chain partners, and project stakeholders to ensure a consistent approach to safety engagement.

Essential Experience

• Experience delivering health and safety engagement, behavioural safety, or safety culture initiatives within rail, infrastructure, construction, or other safety-critical industries.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Experience coaching operational teams and influencing behavioural change.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage people at all levels of an organisation.

• Knowledge of UK Health & Safety legislation and industry best practice.

• Experience developing engaging communication materials and safety campaigns.

• Ability to analyse data, identify trends, and develop improvement initiatives.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working on Network Rail, London Underground, HS2, or other major rail infrastructure projects.

• Knowledge of the Common Safety Method (CSM-RA) and Rail Industry Standards.

• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent Health & Safety qualification.

• Membership of IOSH (Working Towards, Technical, or Chartered).

• Experience delivering Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) programmes.

• Understanding of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM 2015).

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about improving health, safety, and wellbeing.

• Confident facilitator with excellent interpersonal skills.

• Positive, enthusiastic, and approachable.

• Strong influencing and coaching ability.

• Creative thinker capable of developing engaging safety initiatives.

• Collaborative team player with excellent organisational skills.

• Committed to driving continuous improvement and embedding a positive safety culture

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.