Senior SHEQ Advisor

7 days ago

Scotland, United Kingdom OCU Full time

About the job

As part of our continued growth, OCU Group have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior SHEQ Advisor / SHEQ Manager to join our OCU Nettworx team in Scotland.

In this role you will be responsible for supporting the development, implementation, and management of the company's Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality systems. This role ensures compliance with legal requirements and industry standards, promotes a positive safety culture, and contributes to continuous improvement in SHEQ performance.


Duties and Responsibilities:


Organising:

  • Work with our Operational Overhead line teams to help deliver high quality projects to our clients.
  • Monitor SHEQ arrangements to ensure that health and safety standards applied by contractors are satisfactory and in accordance with contractual arrangements, company specifications, policy and procedures.
  • Support role in the development and implementation of SHEQ Management Systems for the broader business.

Planning and Implementing:

  • Be visible and known to the business operations supported.
  • Conducting suitable and effective SHEQ Compliance monitoring activities (audit / engagements) in Business / Region and tracking the completion of all corrective action.
  • Support role in SHEQ Compliance monitoring activities for the broader business.
  • Monitoring and tracking SHEQ compliance information (lead and lagging indicators) in business / region for trends etc. highlighting concerns and providing key support in the development and implementation of improvement actions, initiatives and plans.
  • Support with company inductions for new operatives and staff members.
  • Active role in the development and publication of SHEQ communications.
  • Involvement in worker consultation through attendance at Project reviews, worker groups and SHEQ engagements.

Audit and Review:

  • Report on activities, local performance and improvement actions, initiatives and plans regularly.
  • Support role with the external accreditation and client audits.
  • Support role at regional and depot level review meetings.
  • Providing support for accident / incident investigations in relation to regional incidents.
  • Tracking accident / incident reports to ensure that all corrective actions and recommendations are appropriate and are fully implemented.
  • Taking a lead / impartial role in investigating serious / significant accidents and incidents.
  • Liaising with management in relation to the notification of accidents / incidents and dangerous occurrences.

Decision making authority:

  • Empowered to stop or halt operations deemed to pose risk of significant health, safety or environmental breaches and impose sanction or improvement action accordingly.
  • Work in support of Regional Management teams to achieve high level SHEQ performance standards.
  • Recommend solutions in respect of significant SHEQ audit non-conformance or adverse accident investigation findings.


Skills and Experience:


Business Knowledge:

  • Knowledge and application of SHEQ management principles and best practice within an energy service operational arena with a focus on transmission / distribution Overhead Line projects.

Essential Functional / Technical Skills:

  • NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent as a minimum, NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent preferred. Grad Member / working towards Chartered Member of IOSH preferred and member of IEMA desirable.
  • IT Skills – capable use of Microsoft Office software suite (word, excel etc.) and ability to interact with company systems.
  • Full UK Driving Licence and willingness to travel.

Personal Attributes / Competencies:

  • Excellent Communication Skills (Verbal, Written & Face to Face).
  • Professional approach, self-organised and motivated to influence stake holders.
  • Interpersonal - builds relationships internal / external.
  • Presentation Skills and ability to assist in delivery of training.
  • Mentoring and support to Operational Teams.
  • Mentoring and support to SHEQ representatives and Trainee SHEQ Advisors.
  • Decision Making/ Problem Solving.


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 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’.


As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

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