Occupational Safety Advisor - Glasgow, United Kingdom - SSE

SSE

Verified Company

Glasgow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the Role

Base Location:
Shetland or rotation to Shetland

Salary:
£44,100 - £66,100 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern:
Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

At SSE, Safety is our number one value. We live by our licence, if it's not safe, we don't do it.

We focus on ensuring that we have no injuries or serious environmental incidents and that people are healthy and happy at work.

Our Safety, Health & Wellbeing (SHW) function helps our teams across SSE to deliver this and ensure that we get everyone home safely at the end of the working day.

The Occupational Safety Advisor is a highly technical, competent, professional role in the SHW team that provides proactive and pragmatic safety advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders during the execution of large capital projects within the Offshore Directorate.

The duties and responsibilities of the Occupation Safety Advisor are:

Assisting Projects and Project teams with a range of safety advice and support to ensure the successful implementation of the Safety Management System.
Performing visits to worksites to monitor CDM compliance and engage with Contract Partners to help deliver an incident free Project.
Developing and reviewing Client, Principal Designer and Contractor safety related documentation in a timely manner and to a high standard.
Actively participating in risk assessments, safety inspections, incident investigations, performance analysis and safety campaigns.
Fostering a positive safety culture by driving safety standards across all areas and championing the use of SSE's

Safety Licence:
if it's not safe, we don't do it

The role is required to support worksites in Shetland.

The position is open to Shetland based personnel or persons living in the UK Mainland on rotational position to Shetland (10:4 or 21:7).

Travel and living allowances apply.

What do I need?
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

You should have demonstrable qualifications and experience in safety on large construction projects, with a pragmatic, flexible, people centred approach.
You'll demonstrate professional internal and external stakeholder management skills to drive cross business collaboration to build a high performing, commercially and customer focused safety culture.
You should hold a graduate qualification in Occupational Safety (e.g. NEBOSH Diploma) or relevant equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge through experience. Membership of IOSH (or equivalent organisation) is also preferred.
You should be an excellent communicator with a natural ability for building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. You'll have the ability to use a wide range of techniques to influence change at all levels of the organisation and will possess a wellstructured, systematic approach with the ability to identify and analyse complex technical issues and understand risks in order to provide appropriate solutions.
Due to the nature of travel associated with this role, a valid UK Driving Licence is essential.

About our Business

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the communities it serves.

Home to some of the UK's greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission is playing a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero.

What's in it for you?
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement.

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

What happens now?
Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.

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