SHEQ Manager; Electric)

Job Title

SHEQ Manager
- Electric

Our salaries are competitive and reviewed regularly to ensure they remain fair and in line with the wider industry.

Tipton

Doocey Group is a long-established, family-run utility and civil engineering contractor with over 40 years of industry experience. Built on strong Black Country values, we pride ourselves on integrity, reliability, responsiveness and a commitment to delivering high standards in everything we do.

Over the past 10 years, Doocey Group has experienced significant growth, achieved through consistently deliver high-quality work for our clients, including National Grid and South Staffordshire Water. Our success is built to deliver safely and reliably in a fast-paced and often challenging environment.

As we approach a turnover of £100m, this marks an important milestone in our journey and reflects the hard work, ambition and dedication of our teams across the business. If you are looking to join a growing organisation that values hard work, loyalty and ambition, you will feel right at home at Doocey Group.

The SHEQ Manager
- Electric is responsible for monitoring, assessing, and improving compliance across low voltage operations, ensuring all works are completed safely, compliantly, and in accordance with company procedures, client requirements, and LRQA NERS accreditation standards.

The role involves conducting site audits, inspections, competency assessments, and compliance reviews of operational teams undertaking de-looping, cable installation, jointing, and associated low voltage activities. The successful candidate will have a strong electrical background, experience within utility or distribution network environments, and a good understanding of SHEQ principles, playing a key role in maintaining NERS accreditation and promoting a positive safety culture across the business.

• Lead SHEQ inspections, audits and compliance assessments across low voltage electrical operations.
• Monitor compliance with company procedures, client requirements, risk assessments, method statements and safe systems of work.
• Ensure compliance with LRQA NERS accreditation standards, Electricity at Work Regulations, HSG
  47, NRSWA and industry best practice.
• Conduct site audits covering excavation, cable installation, jointing, service transfers and cable avoidance activities.
• Verify workforce competencies, authorisations, qualifications and training records to ensure compliance with NERS requirements.
• Review site-specific risk assessments, work packs and operational documentation to ensure compliance and operational readiness.
• Provide coaching, guidance and support to operational teams to improve safety performance and compliance standards.
• Identify unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and quality concerns, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and monitored through to completion.
• Lead investigations into utility damage incidents, service strikes, near misses and other SHEQ events, identifying root causes and improvement actions.
• Conduct behavioural safety observations and safety conversations to promote a positive safety culture.
• Produce audit reports, compliance assessments and management information, highlighting trends, risks and recommendations.
• Support management teams in closing audit findings, non-conformances and corrective actions.
• Assist with internal and external LRQA NERS audits, surveillance visits and accreditation reviews.
• Participate in operational, client and management review meetings to discuss compliance performance and improvement opportunities.
• Support the development and continual improvement of policies, procedures, safe systems of work and operational controls.

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