Health & Safety Advisor

About Crown House Technologies

Crown House Technologies is the engineering and specialist services business within the Laing O'Rourke Group. We deliver innovative mechanical, electrical and manufacturing solutions that support the delivery of some of the UK's most complex and high-profile construction projects.

Our Crown House Manufacturing facility in Oldbury plays a key role in supporting modern methods of construction, producing high-quality modular and prefabricated solutions that are delivered to projects across the UK. By combining advanced manufacturing techniques with a strong commitment to health, safety and quality, our teams help drive safer, more efficient ways of delivering construction.

At Crown House, we are committed to “Rethinking Safety through Inclusion and Wellbeing”, ensuring every employee has the tools, support and environment needed to work safely while contributing to continuous improvement across our operations.

About the Role

We are seeking a proactive and collaborative Health & Safety Advisor to support our Crown House Manufacturing facility in Oldbury. This role plays a key part in ensuring the highest standards of health, safety and wellbeing across our manufacturing operations.

You will work closely with operational teams to promote a positive safety culture, provide practical guidance, and ensure compliance with statutory requirements and internal safety standards. The role also supports the development and delivery of the organisation's health and safety strategy.

This is a site-based role within a modern manufacturing environment, with occasional visits to other facilities as required. Flexibility may be needed to support operational activities, including occasional night shifts.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the highest standards of health and safety are maintained across manufacturing operations.
• Provide local advice and support to employees across CEMC to help them fulfil their safety responsibilities.
• Facilitate and coach operational teams on the principles of “Rethinking Safety through Inclusion and Wellbeing”, using engagement tools to effectively connect with the workforce.
• Carry out health and safety assurance activities to provide confidence that operational H&S processes are effective.
• Gather regular feedback from the workforce and communicate insights to management to support inclusive leadership and continuous improvement.
• Research and promote innovative technologies, methods and services that support the safe delivery of work.
• Support and coordinate the investigation of incidents, including high-potential incidents, ensuring effective learning outcomes and timely closure of actions.
• Contribute to the development of the CEMC Health & Safety strategy and goals.
• Promote, capture and share health and safety best practice across the business through internal communications and external platforms.
• Facilitate learning opportunities and effectively cascade business and industry safety communications.
• Act as a point of contact when communicating with regulatory and enforcement bodies, ensuring professional and timely correspondence where required.
• Support the implementation of the Safety Management System, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and company standards.
• Monitor the closure of actions arising from assurance activities, inspections and incident investigations.
• Support the identification of training and coaching requirements and facilitate the delivery of relevant safety training.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in a Health & Safety role within manufacturing, engineering, construction or a similar operational environment.
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and management systems.
• Ability to coach, influence and engage with teams at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement and safety innovation.
• Experience supporting incident investigations and assurance processes.

Working Arrangements

• Full-time role based at the Oldbury manufacturing facility.
• Flexibility required to support operational activities.
• Occasional travel to other facilities may be required.
• Occasional night shifts may be required depending on operational needs.

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com