Emergency Preparedness Advisor

Job Title:                     Emergency Preparedness Advisor

Location:                     Hinkley Point, Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                  Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                      SF58393

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Emergency Preparedness Advisor at our Hinkley Point C site.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main MEH, cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s 2,500 rooms.

The role

As an Emergency Preparedness Advisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Reporting to the MEH Fire Safety & EP Manager, your responsibility will be to provide expert advice and guidance on emergency planning and fire safety, ensuring that relevant standards are established and maintained across the project.

Day to day, you’ll will play a crucial role within a team of specialists focused on emergency planning, fire safety, and compliance

• Develop, maintain, and review the MEH Emergency Preparedness and fire safety policies, rescue management arrangements, and Rescue Plans in collaboration with contractors, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

• Provide fire safety and emergency preparedness advice to MEH Managers, Leads, and construction teams to develop effective strategies.

• Conduct Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness assurance audits, inspections, and monitoring activities of MEH areas and contractors to ensure adherence to site standards and UK legislation.

• Review Fire Risk Assessments completed by the fire safety team.

• Advise Health and Safety Groups on general and process fire safety, explosive atmospheres, and emergency preparedness, and provide necessary reports.

This role is full time 38 hours a week and will be based on site at Hinkley Point C in Bridgwater.

Essential experience of the Emergency Preparedness Advisor

• Suitable site experience in a similar role within an Emergency Preparedness role

• Producing Fire Risk Assessments in the construction or other dynamic environment.

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in order to explain EP/Fire procedures and expectations to a range of people.

Qualifications for the Emergency Preparedness Advisor

• NEBOSH Fire and Construction Certificates would be desirable.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance for this role.

Waht we offer

• Generous holiday allowance

• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance

• Employee share scheme

• Employee shopping savings portal

• Payment of Professional Fees

• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 02/12/2024

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