About the role
Drive a positive health and wellbeing culture at the heart of Electricity Transmission
Are you passionate about building a positive and proactive health and wellbeing culture based on collaboration, care and trust? Perhaps you’d like to work in an organisation which focuses on health, wellbeing, and the environment, in the same way it does safety?
As Occupational Safety Manager, you’ll play a key role in leading and inspiring a dedicated safety team in occupational safety across National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET).
Your primary focus will be on driving continual improvement in safety compliance and performance, and you’ll have the opportunity to motivate and energise leaders throughout NGET, empowering them to take full accountability for safety leadership. You will also get involved with health and safety management systems and oversee safety relating to legionella, fire risks, asbestos management, office safety, driving for work and much more.
You’ll lead high profile safety projects and campaigns and be responsible for updating and providing guidance on NGET’s health and safety business processes leading a simplification and consolidation project.
Other key activities focus around reducing the risk of harm and injuries, as well as driving safe behaviours and improved safety maturity throughout the business. Building strong relationships with contacts across the business will be crucial to your success.
You’ll be a key contributor and facilitator in developing NGET safety strategy, ensuring its alignment with organisational goals and objectives, and you’ll have a great opportunity to make a significant impact on how we manage safety as we enter a period of expediential growth.
You’ll stay abreast of relevant legislation, regulations and industry standards, ensuring compliance and proactively address any emerging safety issues or changes in regulatory requirements.
In addition, you’ll lead or support incident investigation, ensuring thorough root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions, promoting a culture of learning from incidents and shared lessons learned throughout the organisation.
You’ll attend our Warwick office for meetings, and there will be a need to travel to other sites and offices on a regular basis. This can be combined with hybrid working from home.
What you'll need
With experience and knowledge of a broad spectrum of safety in the workplace, you’ll have experience of working in high-risk environments, such as energy, construction or manufacturing.
In depth knowledge of health and safety legislation is essential, as is experience of developing and implementing health and safety management systems.
With an understanding and experience of safety related risks and knowledge of incident investigation, you’ll have the ability to develop innovative ways in which to engage the business in Safety and Health issues with the confidence and resilience to challenge behaviours and issues at senior levels across the business.
You’ll possess excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to demonstrate sound constructive decision-making abilities and the ability to communicate well with regulatory bodies and peer organisations. Effective people management skills with the ability to develop a high performing team are also essential.
You’ll have a technical/professional qualification such as Degree, HNC in a relevant discipline and hold a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent NVQ Level 6 qualification. Chartered membership of IOSH is preferable.
What's in it for you?
* A competitive salary of £58,000 - £70,000 – dependent on experience
* An annual performance bonus of up to 15% of your eligible earnings in the performance year
* Job requirement car
* 37-hour week, with Hybrid working model between Home, Office and site
* 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days.
* The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
* Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
* Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role.
* Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
* Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
* Access to numerous apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.
More Information
This role closes at midnight on 16th January 2025 however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.
Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.
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At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.
Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.
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