Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director; Energy

Position: Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director (Energy)
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A little more about your role…We are seeking an experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director to provide strategic leadership across major infrastructure and energy programmes, ensuring health, safety and wellbeing is embedded throughout programme development, design, mobilisation and delivery.

This is a senior leadership role, providing expert advice, governance and assurance to programme directors, project leadership teams and clients. You will play a fundamental role in shaping HSW strategy, influencing decision making at executive level and ensuring robust risk management arrangements are in place across complex, multidisciplinary environments.

Working across large-scale programmes, you will provide an integrated view of risk, performance and control effectiveness, partnering closely with clients, alliance partners, contractors, suppliers and WSP specialist teams to drive continual improvement and support successful programme delivery.

As a Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director, you will operate at both strategic and operational levels, helping shape programme culture, governance and performance whilst ensuring accountability for risk remains with operational and project leaders.

Working closely with programme leadership teams, you will:

Provide strategic direction for health, safety and wellbeing across major programmes and projects

Influence executive decision-making through effective governance, assurance and risk insight

Drive continual improvement in health, safety, wellbeing and organisational performance

Key Responsibilities Strategy, Leadership & Governance Develop and implement health, safety and wellbeing strategies aligned with programme, client and WSP objectives

Provide expert leadership and challenge to senior stakeholders, supporting informed and proportionate decision-making

Establish governance arrangements, escalation routes, accountability frameworks and improvement programmes

Risk Management, Assurance & Performance Maintain an integrated view of programme health, safety and wellbeing risks, critical controls and performance indicators

Lead risk-based assurance activities, audits and specialist reviews across programme delivery

Identify emerging trends, escalate significant concerns and verify the effectiveness of corrective and preventative actions

Design Safety & CDM Leadership Provide governance and oversight of Safety in Design, CDM and Principal Designer arrangements

Ensure appropriate competence, appointments, interfaces and escalation processes are established and maintained

Promote lifecycle risk reduction and elimination through effective design risk management

Incident Management, Crisis Response & Learning Lead the health, safety and wellbeing response to significant incidents, high-potential events and emerging risks

Oversee investigation standards, ensuring lessons learned are effectively captured and embedded

Identify systemic issues and drive meaningful organisational improvement through learning and assurance activities

Health, Wellbeing & Culture Provide strategic leadership on occupational health, wellbeing, psychological safety and workforce engagement

Promote positive organisational culture through visible leadership and evidence-based interventions

Utilise workforce insights and performance data to target sustainable improvement initiatives

Stakeholder Engagement &…