Head of Safety

The opportunity

We are looking for a passionate, strategic and accomplished leader to join us as the Head of Safety to deliver a strong and deeply embedded safety focused culture across our National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) Business. 

Acting as a critical friend to the field operations team, you will be responsible for defining and delivering the business-wide safety strategy and implementing safety standards to drive safety performance across NGED. 

Showcasing your ability to inspire, manage and motivate your team, you will develop a culture of high performance and delivery against the KPIs you develop and own.  

Reporting into the Director of Safety, Health and Environment, this is a fantastic opportunity to drive change and take accountability for contract strategy and change management across the business. 

This is a hybrid working role (3 days per week at the office) and can be based in any of our license areas: East Midlands, West Midlands, South West or South Wales.
 

What you'll do

•    Develop NGED’s safety strategy, underpinned by robust data insights and radical approaches to improve and sustain an industry leading safety culture and performance. 
•    Support NGED operational teams by maintaining a suitably resourced team and driving a high performing safety team, with dedicated Subject Matter Experts’s to deliver advisory and drive safety performance at the most critical areas across field operations.
•    Lead the development, embedding and sustaining of a purposeful and impactful culture change program across NGED to enable a deeper culture of compliance and deepening psychological safety for all colleagues and our delivery partners. 
•    Manage NGED’s Safety governance processes, with effective interactions with wider NG Group processes. 
•    Define and implement robust performance measures with seamless reporting processes to the business, to drive safety insights, monitor and report on NGED safety performance trends. 

About you

•    Effective leadership skills with the ability to develop a high performing team – someone who identifies and leverages strengths and potential within the team and creates cohesion across different functional areas.
•    Proven experience in directing organisational safety change programs. 
•    Detailed understanding and appreciation of operational safety risks and controls within the electricity distribution industry.  
•    An exceptional communicator, with the people skills to build effective relationships at all levels of business up to ExCo level and with external contacts – suppliers.
•    A relentless passion and drive for safety performance and culture. 
•    Knowledge of the Energy Sector and National Grid’s place in the industry.  
•    Resilient with the confidence and strength to question behaviours and issues.
•    Well-developed collaboration skills to ensure effective cooperation between all parties.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

 

What we can offer you

A competitive salary between  £70,000 - £90,000 dependent on experience.

Plus: 
 

•    An electric company car or car cash allowance
•    Up to 20% Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance)
•    28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days in addition to the option to buy additional or sell holiday days every year
•    Private medical insurance
•    A generous contributory pension scheme - we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
•    Life Insurance 10 x base salary
•    Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions.
•    Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
•    Access to apps which support health, fitness, and wellbeing.
•    Career development, ongoing training and support, career progression and plenty of opportunity to progress!

Further information

This role closes on 2nd May 2024 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. We may remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.  #LI-SC1 #LI-HYBRID

About us

National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) is the regional electricity distribution division of National Grid.

We are the largest UK Electricity Distribution company, providing services and energy to over 25 million customers, through 8 million connections in our four regions across South Wales, the South-West, West Midlands, and East Midlands. Over the next five years we need to invest in over £7.5bn of infrastructure to fulfil the UK’s ambition, enabling capacity for more than 1.5 million Electric Vehicles and 600,000 heat pumps and ensuring our customers can connect to our network when they want and how they want.

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.
 

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.