Head of Safety - Bristol, United Kingdom - National Grid

National Grid

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Head of Safety:

Location: Bristol, GB, BS2 0TB
Division: Chief Executive
Job Type:
Requisition Number: Department:
Job Function: Safety, Health, Environment and Resilience
The opportunity:

We are looking for a passionate, strategic and accomplished leader to join us as the Head of Safety to deliver a strong and deeply embedded safety focused culture across our National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) Business.

Acting as a critical friend to the field operations team, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the business-wide safety strategy and implementing safety standards to drive safety performance across NGED.

Showcasing your ability to inspire, manage and motivate your team, you will develop a culture of high performance and delivery against the KPIs you develop and own.

Reporting into the Director of Safety, Health and Environment, this is a fantastic opportunity to drive change and take accountability for contract strategy and change management across the business.

This is a hybrid working role (3 days per week at the office) and can be based in any of our license areas: East Midlands, West Midlands, South West or South Wales.

What you'll do:

Develop NGED's safety strategy, underpinned by robust data insights and radical approaches to improve and sustain an industry leading safety culture and performance.
Support NGED operational teams by maintaining a suitably resourced team and driving a high performing safety team, with dedicated Subject Matter Experts's to deliver advisory and drive safety performance at the most critical areas across field operations.
Lead the development, embedding and sustaining of a purposeful and impactful culture change program across NGED to enable a deeper culture of compliance and deepening psychological safety for all colleagues and our delivery partners.
Manage NGED's Safety governance processes, with effective interactions with wider NG Group processes.
Define and implement robust performance measures with seamless reporting processes to the business, to drive safety insights, monitor and report on NGED safety performance trends.

About you:

Effective leadership skills with the ability to develop a high performing team someone who identifies and leverages strengths and potential within the team and creates cohesion across different functional areas.
Proven experience in directing organisational safety change programs.
Detailed understanding and appreciation of operational safety risks and controls within the electricity distribution industry.
An exceptional communicator, with the people skills to build effective relationships at all levels of business up to ExCo level and with external contacts suppliers.
A relentless passion and drive for safety performance and culture.
Knowledge of the Energy Sector and National Grid's place in the industry.
Resilient with the confidence and strength to question behaviours and issues.
Welldeveloped collaboration skills to ensure effective cooperation between all parties.

What we can offer you:

A competitive salary between £70,000 - £90,000 dependent on experience.

Plus:

An electric company car or car cash allowance
Up to 20% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance)
28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition to the option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year
Private medical insurance
A generous contributory pension scheme we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
Life Insurance 10 x base salary
Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
Family care benefits including a backup 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 apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.
Career development, ongoing training and support, career progression and plenty of opportunity to progress

Further information:

About us:

National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) is the regional electricity distribution division of National Grid.

We are the largest UK Electricity Distribution company, providing services and energy to over 25 million customers, through 8 million connections in our four regions across South Wales, the South-West, West Midlands, and East Midlands.

Over the next five years we need to invest in over £7.5bn of infrastructure to fulfil the UK's ambition, enabling capacity for more than 1.5 million Electric Vehicles and 600,000 heat pumps and ensuring our customers can connect to our network when they want and how they want.

**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 peo