We are looking for a passionate and accomplished safety professional to join us as an Operational Safety Advisory Manager to lead a team of high performing Operational Safety Advisors and other regional members of the Safety Team, in enabling and providing tactical safety support to colleagues across two licences areas (East and West Midlands) of National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED).

Reporting to the Head of Safety, you will support them in delivering the safety strategy and implementing safety standards to drive safety performance across NGED. Using your excellent stakeholder management and relationship building abilities you will develop and maintain excellent relationships with key stakeholders across the business and represent Safety, Health & Environment as needed.

Leading, managing, and motivating the Safety Advisory & Operational Support team, you will develop a culture of high performance and delivery against KPIs.

The role can be based within our East Midlands and West Midlands licence areas. We continue to offer hybrid working and there will be a requirement travel across the UK.

What you'll do

• Ensure effective line of sight between teams' performance deliverables, work activities, NGED safety ambition and local operational safety deliverables.
• Own, enable, and maintain a seamless and effective engagement with senior Operational Leads to ensure thorough management of safety performance.
• Collaborate effectively with leaders across the SHE team to ensure Safety initiatives, programs and plans are fit for purpose and deliverable.
• Support, in a senior capacity, in the resolution of safety matters and driving quality across the licences areas in improving e-2-e incident management performance.
• Represent the SHE team and deputise for the Head of SaOS at senior internal and external safety engagements.
• Support the delivery of regional public safety campaigns
• Promote continuous improvement to create and sustain world class safety performance.
• Develop and maintain a technical team who can provide technical safety and SME advice on behalf of NGED, and contribute to the development and implementation of NGED’s’s health and safety policies and procedures.
• Drive a mature safety culture, incl. facilitation of the bi-annual Group safety survey, NGED specific ad hoc survey etc.
• Identify and manage key safety risks and issues including development & implementation of safety campaigns appropriate to the needs of our business.
• Raise safety capability, including training and comms
• Engage with senior NGED stakeholders to drive accountability and positive outcomes for incident reporting, supporting accident and incident investigations to establish root causes, providing expert advice, support and guidance on legal framework, internal policies and communicate learning points.
• Proactively engage and contribute to the Group Major Hazard Asset framework governance process and series of meetings.
• Maintain an effective interface with relative safety industry regulators and network association.

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.
• Relevant safety related qualification e.g. degree, NEBOSH Diploma, CMIOSH, HNC or equivalent
• Membership of, IOSH (GRAD IOSH minimum).
• 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.
• Well-developed collaboration skills to ensure effective cooperation between all parties.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What we can offer you

A competitive salary of circa £72,000 dependent on experience.

Plus:
• A Job requirement company car
• Up to 15% 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
• A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Life Insurance 10 x base salary
• Access to contributory private medical insurance
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
• Family care benefits including a back-up 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

This role closes on Monday 02 September 2024 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

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 people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.
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