Business Partner | HSEQ

Joining Arup

At Arup we’re dedicated to sustainable development and to do socially useful work that has meaning. Our purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.
We solve the world's most complex problems and deliver what seems impossible. We explore challenges with curiosity and creativity - using technology, imagination and rigour to deliver remarkable outcomes.

The Opportunity

The HSEQ Business Partner works closely with the business to deliver HSEQ activities to enhance project delivery. This role incorporates the following tasks and activities:

Strategic Direction:

•    Strong understanding of both the strategic direction of internal clients and how HSEQ strategy can enhance their plans.
•    Ability to communicate HSEQ and firm strategic plan into practical actions within their supported geography/office
•    Broad understanding of operational risk profile/context of the geography/region in which they work against growth ambitions

External Influence:

•    Build external presence, making connections in Arup’s client companies and partners
•    Collaborate with a professional network within and outside of Arup, investing time to learn how other organisations and professions approach HSEQ.
•    Build client partnerships with Arup top 10 within geography/region to move beyond contractual interactions and towards supporting industry influence and change.

Deliver Excellence:

•    Business partnering: Partner with local PDs, PMs and office leaders to deliver HSEQ activities, coach and challenge project teams, to drive their projects forward, encourage best practice and consistency
•    Work winning: Collaborate with local commercial teams, providing in depth technical and operational advice to bids, pre-qualification questionnaires and certification schemes, raising any major pursuits queries to HSEQ’s identified team.
•    High Quality: Define structured, consistent and efficient approaches (in collaboration with others) to deliver work on time and to a high standard with consideration for the context and stakeholders involved.
•    Compliance: Oversee local HSEQ compliance, ensure statutory obligations are communicated, specifically to duty holders, and roles and responsibilities are discharged.
•    Training: Oversee local HSEQ training and competency. Where necessary, organise and deliver local training in an engaging and informative manner. Ensure training and competency is formally recorded.
•    Data: Act as a custodian of HSEQ information, records and data sources, ensuring data integrity, reliability, accuracy and, where appropriate, privacy.
•    Reporting: Interpret reports and analyse data, develop insights to inform their local business of any notable issues, risks, trends or actions. Ensure these are actionable and understood by local leadership. Upwardly escalate any significant concerns and trends to HSEQ Manager
•    Champion and Promote: Be an ambassador of HSEQ, encourage and promote local implementation of quality, H&S and environmental management systems.
•    Digital: Identify opportunities for improvement and generate solutions to solve and improve processes. Adapt to new technologies and methodologies.
•    Ownership: Initiate timely actions to accomplish individual and wider team objectives. Proactively seek opportunities to act before being asked.
•    Customer focus: Develop strong customer focus, understand their drivers, problems or needs, and deliver services to resolve / meet those needs.
•    Adaptability: Demonstrate a positive, growth mindset, embrace new ways of working, willingness to learn new skills to enable flexibility in a dynamic work environment

Expectation for this role is to develop skills and knowledge across all 3 disciplines of HSEQ Quality Management

•    Partner with projects to deliver work of quality, using our quality management systems and the programme of quality checking and inspection of work.
•    Manage local internal audits, lead on more complex auditing. Oversee local audit plans, conduct analysis of local audit findings, applying quality management principles, to establish underlying trends and reasons. Present insights to leadership and develop effective improvement
•    Oversee the support for local teams ahead and during an external audit. Review findings, ensuring actions are appropriate, tracked and managed to completion. Produce insights and recommend actions.
•    Develop project quality plans and inspection regimes (where required). Manage quality audits with JVs and clients and major projects.
•    Ensure that local briefings on the quality management system are done, to improve the understanding of the requirements and individual roles, responsibilities and tasks.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

•    Promote a culture of care where safety is everyone’s responsibility and integrated within everything we do, advise and coach leadership on role modelling
•    Provide local teams with professional safety advice for bids, projects, site visits, travel and facilities.
•    Review and validate local risk assessments/SWMS, safety plans and methods statements, supporting the identification and establishment of suitable risk mitigations and control measures. Oversee and manage the provision of local advice for fire safety, first aid, emergency response, workstation assessments, environmental compliance, office inductions, physical security, and contractor management.
•    Promote and encourage incident prevention and safety in the office and across projects. Oversee the investigation of local incidents, ensuring appropriate and timely reporting of incidents, and the establishment of effective corrective action. Collaborate with Major Incident response team when required.
•    Promote design safety, supporting project teams integrate the design safety framework and key concepts within the designs.
•    Oversee the issue, use and maintenance of protective clothing and equipment

Environment and Sustainability

•    Support Arup achieve its sustainability goals by promoting the environmental management system and the integration of sustainable concepts within our business operations, processes and local decision-making.
•    Ensure integrity of environmental data into systems, including the local Environmental Aspects Registers and improvement plans.
•    Conduct local impact environmental assessments.
•    Validate and assure project environmental outcomes against contractual and legal obligations within geography/region.
•    Liaise with internal and external stakeholders associated with ESG reporting, EMS approach and industry influence.
•    Promote environmental awareness and controls with internal stakeholders to support consistency in process application i.e. waste management, review of materials being consumed or installed within offices.
•    Ensure sub-contractor are compliant with Arup environmental standards and practices.
•    Partner with Arup Leaders to provide compliance advice and assurance ensuring their understanding of environmental obligations as duty holders.

Emergency Preparedness

•    Prepare for local emergencies and business disruption alongside the leadership, ensuring the business continuity plans are maintained.
•    Oversee local emergency plans and the routine testing of emergency communication systems, such as Everbridge and International SOS

Is this role right for you?

For this opportunity, we are seeking the following qualifications, skills and attributes:
•    Professionally qualified in at least one discipline Quality, H&S or Environmental Management.
•    Developing knowledge of all disciplines of HSEQ.
•    A passion for driving HSEQ forwards.
•    Specialist skills like High-Risk.

We’re looking for people who are curious and ready to evolve how you think and work. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. If you can share your knowledge and ideas and encourage others to do the same; whilst having a desire to deliver excellent services for clients – we’d like to hear from you.

What we offer you?

Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.
As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our members also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits. You’ll have access to lots of learning and development opportunities. This includes a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university. 
Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to do meaningful work that strengthens the resilience of communities and places to improve lives through Arup's community engagement programme.

Next Steps

Please click on the role that most interests you to find out further information and to apply. We then ask that you complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We will be reviewing applications for this position on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline.
Not ready to apply just yet, or have a few questions? Contact us at cindy.wong@arup.com

Different people, shared values

At Arup, we encourage individuality to thrive by respecting, sharing and connecting our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas so we can grow together.
At Arup we are an equal opportunity employer, and we accept people for who they are – we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of age, gender identity and expression, marital status, disability, neurodiversity and mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. Your difference belongs here. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture – from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender, LGBTQ+ and disability – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference - Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates and are a Disability Confident Level 2 Employer. Please contact UKEarlyCareersRecruitment@arup.com to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.
We appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and it’s not always easy to commit to standard working hours. Work Unbound is our innovative hybrid approach to working and gives all our members greater flexibility in deciding how and where they work.