You’ll join OCU’s Water division supporting the delivery of essential water and wastewater infrastructure projects across North Wales and the wider region. Working as part of the Regional SHEQ team, you’ll play a key role in driving a strong safety culture while ensuring projects are delivered safely, compliantly and to a consistently high standard.
This is an opportunity to be part of a growing and forward-thinking business, where you’ll gain exposure to a wide range of infrastructure projects while continuing to develop your SHEQ expertise within a supportive and fast-paced environment.
You’ll provide SHEQ support and guidance to operational teams across the region, helping to embed best practice and ensure health, safety, environmental and quality standards are consistently applied across all project activities. Working closely with operational management and site teams, you’ll support the development of safe systems of work and contribute to improving overall performance and compliance.
You’ll monitor SHEQ performance across projects by reviewing both leading and lagging indicators, identifying trends and supporting the implementation of corrective actions. A key part of your role will involve engaging with site teams, reinforcing best practice, and ensuring standards are clearly understood and maintained.
You’ll carry out site audits and inspections, support incident and accident investigations, and help ensure that lessons learned are captured and shared across the business. You’ll also actively promote a positive safety culture, confidently challenging unsafe behaviours and encouraging continuous improvement at all levels.
In addition, you’ll support the mobilisation of new projects, assisting with the development of risk assessments, method statements, SHE plans and Construction Phase Plans in line with CDM requirements. You’ll also contribute to communications, inductions and training initiatives to strengthen engagement and awareness across the workforce.
Essential:
- Experience within SHEQ or a background in utilities, construction or infrastructure environments
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent qualification
- Strong understanding of SHEQ principles, compliance frameworks and best practice
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage a range of stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills and a proactive, professional approach
- Good IT skills including Microsoft Office
- Full UK driving licence with willingness to travel
Desirable:
- Experience within the water or wastewater sector
- IOSH or IEMA membership
- Experience supporting audits, investigations and SHEQ reporting
- Ability to analyse performance data and contribute to improvement initiatives
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
To apply, please submit your CV by Friday 19th June 2026
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact
Jonathan Bryden at
[email protected].
We review applications every day and may close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. We encourage early applications.
About OCU Group
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter for the role or emailing us at
[email protected]
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
