Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

We have an opportunity across the UK for a graduate to work within our Buildings and Places team, to help develop and deliver health & safety solutions to a range of clients in the UK and around the world. The roles can be based in any of our UK offices within our Health and Safety Consulting Team.

AECOM provides health & safety services to a variety of clients in both the public and private sector, and to organisations in both construction and non-construction industries including:

• Rail

• Aviation

• Highways

• Water

• Power

• Defence

• Pharmaceutical

• Real Estate

• Logistics

Graduates will have the opportunity to work on local projects, as well as to interact with teams based across the UK and potentially further afield. With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there’s no limit to the impact you can make. The Health & Safety Graduate will utilise and adapt their technical and soft skills to our established Health and Safety Consulting approach.

Job Responsibilities

Providing Health & Safety Consultancy Services as directed including general and specific H&S and construction advice including:

• Providing advice and assistance to clients, designers and contractors in relation to their duties under the CDM Regulations

• Providing advice and challenge to design teams to ensure safety in design is applied throughout design stage

• Carry out workplace inspections & audits

• Carrying cut construction site health & safety audits

• Reviewing and advising on risk assessment and method statements

• Providing advice and assistance to principal contracting organisations

• Undertaking the role of principal designer on projects where AECOM are leading design

• Undertaking pro-active and reactive audits and reviews

• Providing point of contact for client(s) with regard to health and safety matters

• Facilitating workshops and training sessions

• Ensuring AECOM QA and Health and Safety responsibilities are discharged 

• Producing comprehensive written reports, notes of meetings, presentations

• Leading by example in application of AECOM’s Safeguarding value and Safety for Life behaviours

Training:

Our Training programme ADVANCE, along with our huge scope of projects across the globe, will challenge and inspire you to make a real difference to the world we live in. Our Programme forms a core part of our business strategy globally, designed to develop the best talent across numerous disciplines to lead our business into the future. We have over 750 graduates on our programmes across the UK & Ireland, from over 40 different disciplines, every one of them making a tangible difference to the environment we all live and work in.

ADVANCE focuses on providing the necessary tools to navigate your early career with focus on EDI, social value, wellbeing, career development and planning, professional skills, brand awareness and understanding AECOM processes. Delivered in person and online you’ll meet and work with senior leaders during the programme.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (min 2.2 or equivalent) in a health & safety, construction or design discipline.

• NEBOSH General Certificate (desirable)

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to demonstrate logical reasoning and analytical thinking

• Effective decision making with strong verbal and written communication

• Strong organisational, problem solving and time management skills

• Able to produce auditable outputs with clear record of error checking and demonstration of validity in results

• Ability to assimilate, analyse and clearly communicate information

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability and confidence to work with a wide range of Clients and Consultants

• Able to work effectively within a team environment and meet or exceed client expectations 

• Adaptable and can modify the approach to work to suit the needs of the client or project 

• Able to negotiate with and influence third parties

• Full UK driving licence

Additional Information

Interested candidates must have permanent right to work in the UK as we unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: REF33678H

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Safety, Health & Environment

Work Location Model: Hybrid