Lead Safety, Health and Environment Advisor

82122 - Lead Safety, Health and Environment Advisor

This Lead Safety, Health and Environment Advisor will report to the Head of SHE for UKPN Services and will work within UK Power Networks Services and can be based in our any of our regional offices including Stansted, Bury St Edmunds, London, Ashford. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £80,574 + car (subject to satisfying criteria) and a bonus of 3%. This role will require a full-time office presence.

Close Date: 26/02/2026

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Private Medical Cover
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose:

You will be responsible for ensuring a robust, effective and integrated safety, health and environmental management system is in place and compliant by all UKPN Services users working on long term contracts and those affected by our works, in particular our clients.

Dimensions:

Payroll Costs: Circa £500,000

Staff Reports: 5, this will increase as works increase.

Financial Responsibility: Responsibility to approve timesheets, expenses, overtime, credit card reconciliation and fuel cards.

Principal Accountabilities:

• To ensure the business complies with its integrated Health, Safety and Environmental Management system as defined by ISO9001, 14001 and 45001.
• Review existing Policies and Procedures with the aim of improving and where necessary writing new ones to cover any business gaps.
• Management and develop a team of SHE professionals providing technical support and performance management which will flex up as new work is won.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders e.g. Client SHE function and senior leaders within the business.
• Identify and manage SHE risks and ensure effective mitigation is implemented.
• Lead on any SHE related training and awareness.
• Review developments in legislation and prosecution and set out and manage actions to maintain compliance.
• Manage incident investigations into reportable and non-reportable incidents, accidents, dangerous occurrences and environmental incidents and that these completed on time in full and recommend future preventative actions.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the level of seniority, as required from time to time at other work locations within the company.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

Required –

• Have a recognised health and safety professional qualification. (e.g. NEBOSH)
• Substantial experience working as a Safety, Health and the Environment specialist.
• Degree or equivalent in a related field.
• People management experience

Preferred –

• Have, or be working towards health and safety institutional membership/certification.
• Ideally, you will have an excellent understanding of SHE within the rail/defence or public sector areas.

Nature and Scope:

UK Power Networks Services are an important part of UK Power Networks, the electricity distribution network operator that owns and maintains electricity cables and power lines across London, the South East and East of England.

UK Power Networks Services provide energy solutions, which optimize existing assets. We integrate new technologies to deliver improved performance and commercial benefits. We operate throughout the UK and are not limited to the footprint of UK Power Networks.

Our clients include some of the highest profile public and private sector organisations with multi-million-pound turnover and critical infrastructure in complex environments. Examples of these include, but are not limited to, the aviation, rail, defence and utilities sectors, logistics and fleet operations, manufacturing and industrial, ports, Public Sector, commercial and property development and nuclear. We have delivered for our clients for more than fifty years.

UK Power Networks Services deliver an award-winning culture of safety within our business and the businesses we work with. We understand the environments we operate in and the sustainability ambitions of our clients.

Reporting to the Business Operations Manager for Safety, Health and the Environment (SHE), you will manage your team of SHE professionals, overseeing their daily work and providing professional technical support. You will have the opportunity to develop policy and procedure contributing to the SHE management system and our safe systems of work, and should any accident or incident occur, you will investigate and identify the root causes and implement effective mitigation strategies.

This is equally an outward / client-facing role as it is an inward facing role. You will be the point of contact for the senior management team, managers, staff and contractors and of course, our clients, including the executive management team within your client portfolio.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.