Occupational Safety Advisor

Base Location

Flexible Scotland | We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception. We will, however, need your base 'home' location to be one of our SSEN offices or depots around Scotland, Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness, Peterhead or Stornoway.

£50,100 - £75,100 + car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

We are looking for Occupational Safety Advisors in various locations to support our growth within SSEN Transmission. 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 orting to the Regional Health and Safety Manager, you'll provide proactive and pragmatic occupational health and safety guidance to various stakeholders throughout SSEN Transmission.

• Support effective mitigation of risks by raising awareness and promoting a practical and professional understanding of occupational safety.
• Support construction projects during network growth and contribute to the development and improvement of the Transmission Safety Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Management System. This includes training, providing information and monitoring health and safety performance.
• Provide positive engagement and guidance to our Network Engineering teams in fulfilling their responsibilities under UK Health and Safety legislation and internal procedures. This includes ensuring incidents are investigated, reviewed, recorded, communicated and reported at the correct levels, with actions closed out.
• Develop trusted working relationships with key stakeholders while promoting our Safety Licence: if it's not safe, we don't do it.
• Collaborate broadly within SSEN Transmission and across the SSE Group to support occupational health and safety throughout the business.

• 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 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.

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030. SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland.

We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Andy on  / to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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