Health and Safety Advisor

Job Description

Our client Scottish Power Transmissions is recruiting for a Health and Safety Advisor to join their team based at the Edinburgh Park office, with travel required around this area and expenses covered. Ideally, they are looking for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor with a relevant background.

Job Purpose Statement

The Health and Safety Advisors within SPT Projects provide professional advice to Project Teams. This includes delivering Health and Safety services and advice to over 350 employees and agency professionals within SPT and to contractors, based at our project construction sites, as part of our supply chain for the £3 bn RIIO T2 price control period, reaching £1 bn per year in 2027, ensuring delivery of multi million pound energy construction projects, ensuring that client interface activities remain a primary focus along with proactive monitoring, reviewing, and reporting on performance.

You will support the project team throughout the project lifecycle with the effective coordination of contractor safe works methodologies and client interface activities. This will involve interaction with engineering, project management, contractors, and other project stakeholders to ensure effective works planning and coordination regarding Health and safety performance to ensure everyone affected by our activities remains safe. This will necessitate advising, coaching, mentoring, influencing, and monitoring best practice project safety management.

You will be required to assist with the delivery of the departmental Health and Safety Operating Plan, undertake planned audits and inspections, provide incident investigation support to Project Teams, and participate in specific project Health and Safety initiatives as required.

Accountability Statements

• Provide professional Health & Safety advice to Project Teams.
• Actively encourage and support the implementation of measures to allow the company and individuals to effectively demonstrate legal compliance.
• Contribute to the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of the Health and Safety Management System.
• Perform and meet Health and Safety monitoring targets (audits and inspections).
• Provide professional advice and support to incident investigations from minor events to Panel of Inquiry incidents.
• Contribute and deliver Health and Safety initiatives projects and agreed deliverables.
• Establish, monitor and control a safe working environment within the area where the post holder is responsible.

Dimensions

• Provision of advice and professional guidance to Project Teams.
• Provision of advice and support in significant incident scenarios.
• Supporting the integration of Health and Safety into standard business process.
• Decision making on work practices and techniques to deliver legal compliance and Health and Safety performance.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

About You

You will bring experience gained in an engineering and construction safety role relating to energy projects – e.g. generation projects, transmission networks or a closely related large scale construction project. You will be required to provide both construction related and general Health and Safety advice to Project Teams, throughout the project lifecycle.

Planning and Organising

• Planning and scheduling of site visit diary across all allocated live sites, ensuring coverage of each on a monthly basis to provide the necessary support.
• Flexible, able to adapt to emerging priorities.
• Able to plan well and work to pressing deadlines.
• Customer delivery focused.

Minimum Criteria (mandatory)

• Possess a professionally recognised UK qualification in Occupational Health and Safety.
• Be able to demonstrate significant knowledge and experience in a Health and Safety role within the construction sector, preferably energy related.
• Be conversant with UK Health and Safety statutory requirements.
• Be a member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or an equivalent organisation where ongoing continual personal development is required.