Occupational Hygienist

Occupational Hygienist – Enabling and Earthworks

Location: Suffolk (Office and Site Based)

Join the exciting journey of one of the UK's largest nuclear projects at Sizewell C!

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Occupational Hygienist to support the successful delivery of the Sizewell C Project.

CWA, appointed by the Sizewell C client, brings together three leading delivery contractors — Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues, and Balfour Beatty — to deliver the civils scope including Enabling Earthworks, Main Civil Works, and Marine and Tunnelling.

We are seeking an Occupational Hygienist to provide expert advice and guidance on occupational health risks across this nationally significant infrastructure project. Reporting to the HSW Manager, you will play a vital role in ensuring the wellbeing of our workforce and supporting our commitment to the highest health and safety standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide informed advice on occupational hygiene across a wide range of activities
• Identify, control, and verify health hazards through monitoring and robust risk assessment
• Lead proactive health risk management initiatives, campaigns, and training programmes
• Support incident investigations and contribute to health-related project forums
• Ensure compliance with UK health regulations, industry standards, and CWA processes
• Deliver training to operational teams on health risks and effective control measures

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Essential:

• Occupational Hygiene Degree or Diploma; BOHS Certificate of Operational Competence
• Strong knowledge of UK Health & Safety regulations and occupational health risk management
• Proven experience applying occupational hygiene practice across varied industrial processes
• Collaborative, proactive approach with strong written and verbal communication skills

Desirable:

• Experience in large-scale infrastructure projects
• Ability to design and implement innovative health campaigns and monitoring strategies

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects, shaping the future of energy while working in a supportive, dynamic environment. Be part of a team that values innovation, safety, and sustainability at every stage of the journey—from investment to construction and beyond.

About Laing O'Rourke

We 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 health 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 prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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

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