You’ll join OCU’s Water division supporting the delivery of essential water and wastewater infrastructure projects that underpin communities across the UK. Working as part of the Regional SHEQ team, you’ll play a key role in shaping a strong safety-first culture while helping ensure projects are delivered safely, compliantly and to a high standard.
This is an opportunity to contribute to a growing sector at a time of significant investment, with exposure to a wide range of operational activities and the chance to develop your SHEQ career within a business that is expanding rapidly and committed to continuous improvement.
You’ll provide day-to-day SHEQ support and guidance to operational teams, helping to embed best practice and ensure that health, safety, environmental and quality standards are consistently applied across all project activities. Working closely with management and site teams, you’ll support the implementation of safe systems of work while driving improvements in performance and compliance.
You’ll monitor SHEQ performance across projects, reviewing key data, identifying trends and supporting the delivery of corrective actions where needed. A core part of your role will involve engaging directly with site teams, reinforcing expectations, promoting positive behaviours and ensuring standards are understood and maintained.
You’ll carry out site audits and inspections, support incident and accident investigations, and ensure that lessons learned are effectively captured and shared. You’ll also play an active role in promoting a proactive safety culture, confidently challenging unsafe behaviours and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the business.
Alongside operational support, you’ll assist with mobilisation of new projects, contributing to the development of risk assessments, method statements, SHE plans and Construction Phase Plans in line with CDM requirements. You’ll also support SHE communications, training and engagement activities to strengthen awareness and compliance across the workforce.
Essential:
- Experience within SHEQ, or a background in utilities, construction or infrastructure environments
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent qualification
- Strong understanding of health, safety, environmental and quality standards and compliance frameworks
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills with a proactive and professional approach
- Good IT skills including Microsoft Office
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel
Desirable:
- Experience within the water or wastewater sector
- IOSH or IEMA membership
- Experience supporting audits, investigations and SHEQ performance reporting
- Ability to analyse performance data and contribute to improvement initiatives
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
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