Senior SHEQ/SHE Advisor

OCU are Seeking an experienced Senior SHEQ Advisor who has experience working within the Power Sector, to join our team based in Ferrybridge, you will manage the OCU Services SHEQ Team for your area of responsibility, ensuring acceptable performance standard. You will be working across a number of Power projects across the business.

Responsibilities

• Notify any changes in your duties to all others who may be affected by these changes.
• Shall ensure strict adherence to the reporting and recording procedures for accidents and dangerous occurrences as required under RIDDOR, as directed by the SHEQ Manager.
• Shall be responsible for providing specialist advice on the company's safety policy and procedures and compliance with statutory obligations throughout the company.
• Shall monitor arrangements to ensure that health and safety standards applied by contractors are satisfactory and in accordance with contractual arrangements, company specifications, policy and procedures.
• Monitor sites for compliance to ensure the relevant, required documentation is in place. Ensure site notice boards are current and are erected in the appropriate place
• Shall ensure that site employees work in accordance with the company’s health and safety requirements, policy’s and procedures along with those of its Clients.
• Shall recommend disciplinary procedures where any member of site supervisory staff fails to discharge their safety responsibilities satisfactorily.
• Shall take appropriate action when notified of disregard of safety on site.
• Shall ensure the provision of a safe and healthy working environment for persons working in or visiting any company operation, site and/or premises.
• Shall monitor provision and effectiveness of adequate and existing welfare facilities.
• Promote the reporting of near misses throughout the company.
• You are required to work at any site on which the Company operates, as authorised and as determined by the needs of the business. You will not be required to work outside the United Kingdom.
• Attend clients contract meetings as and when required, prepare and deliver presentation accordingly.
• Shall be accountable to the SHEQ Head of Major Projects in respect of health, safety and environmental matters.
• Responsible for exercising a general duty of care for the health, safety, environmental and welfare of employees under your control instituting effective arrangements for the efficient implementation of company health and safety strategies, operational procedures and safe systems of work.
• Shall recommend disciplinary procedures where any member of site supervisory staff fails to discharge their safety responsibilities satisfactorily.
• Shall take appropriate action when notified of disregard of safety on site.
• Shall monitor provision and effectiveness of adequate and existing welfare facilities
• Promote the reporting of near misses throughout the company.

Skills & Requirements

• Excellent Spoken & Written Communication Skills
• Positive people Management skills
• The ability to act with initiative
• A mindset of continual improvement
• Good negotiation skills
• A tactful but assertive manner
• Capable of delivering confident articulate presentations
• Logical thinking & problem solving ability
• Good organisational skills & attention to detail
• The ability to cope under pressure
• Be able to interpret and understand relevant Laws
• Competent in MS Word, Excel Power Point & Teams
• Report writing (including, incident investigation, Robust RCA)
• Self-motivated but able to work as part of a team
• Trustworthiness and discretion, when handling confidential information
• Smart appearance and professional manner

Required Qualifications

• NCRQ level 6 / NVQ level 6 / NEBOSH diploma
• Minimum 5 years experience working in the utilities sector ( Power sector preferred)
• Minimum 5 years experience Working within Live Substations ( Desirable)
• Experience working with management systems and the NERS Accreditation ( Desirable )
• Experience working in DNOs and IDNOs
• EUSR or CSCS in General Health and Safety
• Proficient in compiling reports
• MUST HOLD CURRENT FULL UK DRIVERS LICENSE

Company Information:

Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.

Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms, and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.

We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.

We believe that being successful is a choice.

We choose to be successful.

We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.

We celebrate difference and appreciate diverse backgrounds. We encourage everyone who join us to be themselves at work and create inclusive teams in our workplace.