Health and Safety Manager - SSPW

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping a culture of health & safety(H&S)? As a H&S Manager, you'll guide a talented team of H&S Specialists, offering crucial support and expert advice across the entire product lifecycle-from origination and delivery to operations, decommissioning, and repowering. While your primary focus will be on H&S, you'll also have opportunities to contribute to Environmental and Quality system initiatives, ensuring our teams operate to the highest standards. In this dynamic role, you'll spend time visiting solar, storage, and private wire assets across the UK, championing a Zero Harm H&S culture. You'll build strong relationships with colleagues and contract partners, becoming a trusted presence in our field-based teams. Your home base will be your hub, but flexibility is key-you'll travel to various UK field and office locations, adapting to business needs and stepping up when emergencies call for your expertise. This role offers the chance to make a real impact while staying connected to both the people and projects driving the renewable energy revolution. Ready to lead, inspire, and make a difference? This could be your next adventure! Pay, benefits and culture If you're looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future - then you're in the right place!' Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully. We're committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that's an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits. We'll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that's on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home. We're committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone's Welcome inclusion programme. We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. What you'll be doing This role is at the heart of ensuring our teams and projects not only meet compliance but also set the benchmark for safety excellence.

• Champion and promote a Zero Harm culture, driving safe practices and setting the highest HSE standards as a role model.
• Lead and support the H&S team, ensuring robust safety leadership and continuous development.
• Provide H&S guidance across the full lifecycle of projects, from origination to decommissioning, including training and empowering teams to prioritize safety.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, from local communities to emergency services, to embed safety in all aspects of planning and delivery.
• Assess contractors, supply chains, and tender submissions to ensure compliance with H&S standards.
• Conduct audits, inspections, risk assessments, and incident investigations to uphold legal compliance and EDF Renewables' policies.
• Develop and deliver H&S plans, procedures, and training tailored to business needs, driving behavioural and cultural change.
• Align H&S systems and culture with EDF Renewables UK's Zero harm vision, contributing to forums, initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Ensure emergency plans are in place for all operations, providing cover for H&S colleagues as needed.
  
  You'll have experience of managing a health and safety function in an operational / multi-site environment in addition to:
• Qualified to NEBOSH Diploma level or equivalent.
• Engineering, construction and/or renewables experience is desirable.
• Experience in high voltage equipment, switching and some solar/storage experience is desirable.
• Chartered member of IOSH (or similar) or working towards CMIOSH status is desirable.
• Ability to provide practical H&S advice and support.
• Effective communication skills, including written, on a one-to-one basis as trainer or coach, and with groups of people.
• Ability to influence behavioural change with an emphasis on operational activity.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with site staff at all levels, including the ability to influence behaviour by reasoned argument.
• Competence as a trained risk assessor across the full range of qualitative risk assessment areas.
• Ability to carry out detailed incident investigations to establish root causes and provide robust recommendations to prevent future reoccurrence.
• Ability to prioritise effectively and consistently deliver against tight time constraints while working flexibly as part of a team.
• Work flexibly; making site visits as required, to provide required services and support.
• Be prepared and willing to react to business needs in an emergency.
• Ability to adapt to different situations and work under pressure.
  
  Why EDF Renewables?
At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we're committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives. It's a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland's challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland's most diverse generator of renewable energy. To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we're working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector. If you're passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. Join us, and let's do good together. EDF Energy