Safety Risk and Policy Lead

Safety Risk and Policy Leader

Across SGN Patch – Farringdon, Horley, Horsham, Ashford, Portsmouth, Poole, Epsom, Aldershot, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisley, Dundee, Aberdeen

Salary: £44k – 58k (Flexibility depending on qualifications and experience)

Full Time | Hybrid with occasional travel

Joint-contribution pension from 6% (12% total) – Enhanced maternity & family leave – Life assurance – Holiday Plus – Virtual GP & Employee Assistance Programme plus retail and leisure discounts & many more.

Job

• Develop, review, and maintain health and safety policies aligned to regulatory standards and organisational risk priorities.
• Identify operational risks within specialist areas, implement effective control measures, and ensure accurate reporting mechanisms.
• Monitor compliance through audits, inspections, and assurance activities, ensuring adherence to internal policies and external regulations.
• Act as subject matter expert, providing guidance, training and clear communication to operational and leadership teams.
• Lead incident investigations and root cause analysis, driving corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to embed safety culture, influence behavioural safety practices, and support change management activities.
• Produce regular performance reports, analysing trends and insights to inform strategic safety improvements.

• Recognised health and safety qualification (e.g., NEBOSH National General Certificate, IOSH Managing Safely, NVQ Level 3/5 in Occupational Health and Safety Practice) or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge or experience in key risk areas such as PPE, confined spaces, excavation, COSHH and working at height.
• Understanding of relevant regulations (e.g. PUWER, LOLER, CDM, NRSWA) or ability to build knowledge and apply it in practice.
• Experience supporting or contributing to risk assessments, incident investigations and implementation of control measures.
• Ability to work with contractors and stakeholders to support safe working practices and monitor compliance with standards.
• Experience contributing to safety policies, compliance activities, or engaging teams to apply safe ways of working in practice.
• Background in gas, utilities or other high-risk environments, or transferable experience from similar industries, with several years of relevant experience.
• Experience managing changing priority risk categories across contractor management and other business areas.

SGN values diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. If you are not sure you meet every requirement, we still welcome your application.