Location: Location to be agreed with the successful candidate.
An opportunity is available for two Operational Safety Advisors - one based within the South West and one based in South Wales.
Reporting to the Operational Safety Advisory Manager, you’ll be responsible for delivering tactical safety support to local teams, enabling continuous performance improvement in colleague safety. The role is critical in ensuring that safety policies, strategies, and plans are effectively embedded locally.
Regular travel to sites within the South West and South Wales will be needed as part of the role; therefore, a driving licence will be required.
As part of our hybrid working approach, this role offers a mix of office and home working.
Main Responsibilities
1. Be responsible for interpreting and supporting local teams in delivering NGED Safety Strategy, policies, and annual safety plans.
2. Support in successfully discharging safety expectations across Field Operations, in all areas of safety compliance, including supporting with safety training.
3. Support Operations teams by understanding and delivering best practice to enable effective routine Site Safety Visits and Safety checks required by company policy.
4. Partner with operational/investigation leads to ensure all the protocols of incident management are consistently implemented.
5. Ensure new safety policies are clearly understood and embedded locally.
6. Act as the Safety Advisors ‘Point of Contact’ (POC) for local safety issues, fostering a critical friend relationship to enable a strong safety culture.
7. Work with local teams, and working groups where required, to identify safety performance gaps and support the development and embedding of improvement actions.
8. Support and drive Group and NGED culture initiatives through local engagement, safety promotion, and fostering trust across all levels.
9. Support policy improvement by assisting Safety Policy Leads with local insights, recommending and assessing better ways of working.
Ideal Candidate
* A comprehensive understanding of the legislation framework related to health and safety at work and the responsibilities that it places on employers and employees is essential.
* Previous experience working in an advisory position in an occupational health and safety environment in a safety-critical industry and ideally with field-based teams.
* Proactive risk management and experience driving change.
* Experience in delivering projects and initiatives and demonstrable experience leading the way on investigations to understand the true root cause of an incident.
* A high degree of self-motivation, excellent communication, and presentational skills.
* Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly develop your knowledge of, NGED systems, procedures, and culture.
* NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and membership of the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (MIOSH) is desirable.
About Us
We’re National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), the owner and operator behind the electricity distribution systems for the Midlands, the Southwest of England, and South Wales. Serving communities of more than 8 million people, our expert teams deliver heat, light, and power for homes and businesses.
National Grid employs over 29,000 people worldwide. We are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our vision is to be at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future, and we are doing this in a fast-moving industry with an increasing focus on tackling climate change, exploring new energy sources that are renewable, low carbon, and improve efficiency to meet demand.
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