Base Location: For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Perth ideally or Aberdeen or Glasgow.

Salary: £59,800 - £89,800 + car / car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Role

The Regional Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Manager is a highly technical, competent and professional role in the Transmission SHW Team. They provide proactive and pragmatic SHW advice and guidance to internal customers throughout their allocated Transmission directorates and regions. This role will predominantly support our internal Network and support directorates (non-project facing).

You will

• Provide Safety Health and Wellbeing leadership and expertise to the Network and support directorate teams to support the successful implementation of the Transmission and SSE Safety Management Systems, and legislative compliance where applicable.
• Seek to continuously improve the capability and professionalism of their team via training, education, support, development and coaching while ensure consistency in the service provided by the team in line with agreed expectations keeping track of and reporting on regional issues and best practices.
• Provision of support to the Lead Safety Health and Wellbeing Manager in identifying and affecting strategic improvements in workplace safety arrangements and deputising where required.
• Establish and lead a team of Occupational SHW Advisers, embed our Blueprint behaviours and strategic drivers, and build a positive SHW culture among our stakeholders.
• Embody our vision to create a healthy, happy and safe workplace for our people by continuously striving to improve and focussing on positive outcomes.

You have

• A good foundation of knowledge and experience of high-risk operational activities (overhead, underground and substations) on transmission/ distribution networks or similar, such as high hazard assert-intensive organisations.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of UK Health and Safety legislation, including CDM 2015 and associated design, construction, O&M and demolition practices
• Graduate qualification in Occupational Safety (e.g. NEBOSH Diploma) or related discipline or appropriate proven knowledge and experience.