Safety and Wellbeing Assistant

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy committed to delivering impactful work that shapes the future.

We are a team of over 20,000 experts working across the world in more than 50 countries.
We are proud to be part of an ever-changing global industry, delivering transformative work that’s defining our future. It’s our people who power that performance. As an employee-owned business, we invest in creating a space for everyone to feel safe and valued and empowered with the right tools and support. 

Whether you want to pursue excellence in your specialism or broaden your experience with flexible roles across our business, you’ll be connected to a community of global experts championing you to be your best. Join us and shape your story with Mott MacDonald, where everyone has the opportunity to be brilliant.

Job Description  

To support the function with some of the more administrative tasks that still require some safety knowledge, freeing up specialist safety teams to support the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Review of the incidents reported per year (around 40-50,000)
• Analysis of trends at regional and unit level and dissemination of the trends to unit and regional safety managers globally in a standard report format
• Identification of lessons learned and provision of a summary to be included in the above report
• The development of safety moments where required
• Re-categorising incidents as needed. 
• Feeding back to staff through the reporting portal
• Compiling data packs for each region for regional quarterly reports and for the unit and regional boards (x6 per year per region)
• Potential assistance with setting up audits in some regions if required.
• Signposting specialist resources
• Responding to bids and FAQs for safety and travel
• Updating practice site documentation and knowledge-based articles for safety and travel
• Collating / updating annual negotiated rate database for import to online booking tools / TMCs
• Routine travel data extract (and clean) from third party systems

Candidate Specification  

• Self-Leadership: Taking responsibility for one's own behaviour and wellbeing.
• Team: Being collaborative amongst the small safety function and with key stakeholders.
• Professional Excellence: Demonstrating a passion for continual learning and promote the use of global network systems to teams.
• Communication: Confidently communicating in a way that is understood and is receptive to the opinion and views of others.
• Teamwork: Willingly work in cooperation with others.
• Written Skills: The ability to produce clear and logical written communication and presentations in English
• Excellent skills with Microsoft suite is required, particularly excel for data analysis.
• Experience: Experience in safety, reporting and compliance, providing quality subject matter expert (SME) advice and judgement.
• Qualification: Some form of safety certificate/qualification is essential. Scope to progress for the right candidate

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing