Occupational Safety Advisor - Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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 – Glasgow.

Salary: £51,600 - £77,400 + 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

At SSE, safety is our number one value. We live by our licence, if it's not safe, we don't do it. We focus on ensuring that we have no injuries or major environmental incidents and that people are healthy and happy at work.  Reporting to the Regional Health and Safety Manager, you'll provide proactive and pragmatic occupational health and safety guidance to various stakeholders throughout SSEN Transmission. 

You will

• Support effective mitigation of risks by raising awareness and promoting a practical, professional understanding of occupational safety.

• Provide positive engagement and guidance to operational teams and supporting directorates, helping them fulfil their responsibilities under UK health and safety legislation and internal procedures.

• Support SSEN Transmission’s support directorates by helping managers and teams manage workplace health and safety risks, ensuring proportionate controls are understood, applied consistently and embedded into safe, healthy ways of working.

• Develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders across SSEN Transmission and the wider SSE Group, promoting our Safety Licence principle: if it's not safe, we don't do it, while supporting occupational health and safety across the business.

• Contribute to the development, improvement and application of the Transmission Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Management System, including training, providing information and monitoring health and safety performance.

You have

• A graduate qualification in Occupational Safety (e.g. NEBOSH Diploma) with proven experience in safety and risk management. Membership of IOSH (or equivalent organisation) is also preferred.

• Professional stakeholder management skills to ensure cross business collaboration and the ability to build a high performing, commercially and customer focused safety culture.

• Detailed knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment.

• Excellent communication skills with a natural ability for building and maintaining relationships with all stakeholder levels.

• A full UK driving licence with the flexibility to travel to our various SSEN sites and projects.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.