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Job Title: Senior Health & Safety Advisor
Location: Aspect House, Blantyre
Salary from £55,000
Grade EN6
Help us create a better future, quicker
The Senior Health and Safety Advisor within SPT Projects provide Health and Safety professional advice to direct and guide multiple Project Teams (currently 240 projects). This includes delivering Health and Safety services to over 350 employees and agency professionals within SPT and to 800 -1000 contractors, based at our project construction sites, as part of our supply chain for the £3bn RIIO-T2 price control period. This ensures the delivery of multiple multi-million pound energy construction projects and 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 construction, 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 remain safe. This will necessitate advising, coaching, mentoring, influencing, and monitoring best practice projects safety management aligned and fully compliant with CDM 2015 Regulations ensuring that statutory obligations required of the Duty Holders are applied throughout the project lifecycle.
What you’ll be doing
- Provide professional Health & Safety direction and advice to Project Teams including Senior Management.
- Be responsible for the pro-active delivery of the delegated aspects of the annual departmental Health & Safety Operating Plan and all-employee Health and Safety initiatives within your project portfolio.
- Actively influence teams and individuals to encourage and support the implementation of measures to effectively demonstrate legal compliance.
- Contribute to the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of the Health and Safety Management System within your areas of responsibility covering all works and activities performed by the company.
- 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.
- Proactively influence and engage with internal and external stakeholders with a view to improving Health and Safety performance.
- Develop opportunities for best-practice exchanges across the business including regular facilitation of workshops and meetings.
- Be responsible for the promotion, development and review of projects which support the delivery of the health and safety policy and strategy.
- Supporting the governance and assurance of H&S within your areas of responsibility
- Liaison with external and internal technical specialists as appropriate.
- Act as subject matter expert for certain H&S topics or hazards
- Pro-actively bench-mark internally and externally to improve SPT H&S performance from e.g., latest process and procedures to latest technologies.
- To establish, monitor and control a safe working environment within the area where the post holder is responsible.
What you’ll bring
- Occupational Health and Safety Degree or Health and Safety Qualification ranging from European Qualifications Framework levels, 8, 7, 6 or 5
- Trained Structured Incident Investigation Technique
- Registered with IOSH for ‘Initial Professional Development’ (IPD) and the IOSH ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) scheme
- Proven experience in a Health and Safety role within the, engineering or construction sectors.
- Proven experience of delivering and performing Health and Safety audits and inspections for a large business area and presenting reports.
- Proven experience of acting as Health and Safety subject matter expert from creation of procedures to coaching the associated best practice.
- Full UK Drivers Licence
What’s in it for you
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Schemes
- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
- Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why SP Energy Networks
SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2045. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£10 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected] .
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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
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July-23-2026
