Health and Safety Advisor

Posting date:	23 April 2025
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	23 May 2025
Location:	KA11
Remote working:	On-site only
Company:	Morson Talent
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	242275RCO-44957

Summary

Our client Scottish Power Transmissions are currently recruiting for two Health and Safety Advisors to join their team working around sites from the West coast to the Borders on a contract basis initially. Ideally for this role they are looking for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor with a relevant background. For more information on this role see below:

Job Purpose Statement
The Health and Safety Advisors within SPT Projects provide Health and Safety leadership, strategy and professional advice to Project Teams. This includes delivering Health and Safety services and advice to over 350 employees and agency professionals within SPT and to 800 -1000 contractors, based at our project construction sites, as part of our supply chain for the £3bn RIIO-T2 price control period, ensuring delivery of multi-million pound energy construction projects, ensuring that client interface activities remain a primary focus along with proactive monitoring, reviewing, and reporting on performance.

You will support the project team throughout the project lifecycle with the effective coordination of Contractor safe works methodologies and client interface activities. This will involve interaction with engineering, project management, contractors, and other project stakeholders to ensure effective works planning and coordination regarding Health and safety performance to ensure everyone affected by our activities remain safe. This will necessitate advising, coaching, mentoring, influencing, and monitoring best practice projects safety management.

You will be required to deliver the departmental Health and Safety Operating Plan, undertake planned audits and inspections, provide incident investigation support to Project Teams and participate in specific project Health and Safety initiatives as required.

As part of the SPT Projects Health and Safety Team you will ensure the successful integration of departmental and group Health and Safety policies, programs, and processes in support of operational excellence, legal compliance, and safe working practices.

Accountability Statements
· Provide professional Health & Safety leadership, advice and direction to Project Teams including Senior Management.
· Pro-actively deliver the annual departmental Health & Safety Operating Plan and all-employee Health and Safety initiatives within your project portfolio.
· Actively encourage and support the implementation of measures to allow the company and individuals to effectively demonstrate legal compliance.
· Contribute to the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of the Health and Safety Management System within your areas of responsibility covering all works and activities performed by the company.
· Perform and meet Health and Safety monitoring targets, (audits and inspections)
· Provide professional advice and support to incident investigations from minor events to Panel of Inquiry incidents.
· Contribute and deliver Health and Safety initiatives projects and agreed deliverables.
· Proactively engage with internal and external stakeholders with a view to improving Health and Safety performance.
· Develop opportunities for best-practice exchanges across the business including regular facilitation of workshops and meetings.
· Be responsible for the promotion, development and review of projects which support the delivery of the health and safety policy and strategy.
· Supporting the governance and assurance of H&S within your areas of responsibility
· Liaison with external and internal technical specialists as appropriate.
· Act as subject matter expert for certain H&S topics or hazards
· Pro-actively bench-mark internally and externally to improve H&S performance from e.g., latest process and procedures to latest technologies.
· To establish, monitor and control a safe working environment within the area where the post holder is responsible.

Dimensions

• Provision of advice and professional guidance to company Senior Managers and Project Teams.
• Provision of professional advice and support in significant incident scenarios.
• Supporting the integration of Health and Safety into standard business process.
• Decision making on work practices and techniques to deliver legal compliance and Health and Safety performance.
• Responsible for Health and Safety projects and initiatives coordinating matrix management of key stakeholders.
• Liaison with external and internal technical specialists as appropriate.
• Liaison with regulatory authorities both proactively or reactively in the event of an incident and participation in legal process (HSE / SEPA / Enforcing Authorities)

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Desirable criteria
• Occupational Health and Safety Degree
• Formal certified qualifications in 45001 Internal or Lead auditor
• Trained Structured Incident Investigation Technique
• Registered with IOSH for ‘Initial Professional Development’ (IPD) and the IOSH ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) scheme
• Proven experience in a Health and Safety role within the, engineering or construction sectors.
• Proven experience in the application of CDM Regulations.
• A self-starter and able to work on own initiative with minimal direction.
• Knowledge and experience of project management.
• Ability to operate and positively influence at all levels in the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Proven experience of Health and Safety IT applications to support Performance Management and Reporting.
• Ability to devise practical solutions to complex and risk-based problems or challenges.
• Facilitation, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of hazard identification, hazard control, hazard monitoring and audit process.
• Fully Conversant with Microsoft packages

Planning and Organising

• Planning and scheduling of site visit diary across all allocated live sites, ensuring coverage of each on a monthly basis to provide the necessary support.
• Flexible, able to adapt to emerging priorities.
• Able to plan well and work to pressing deadlines.
• Customer delivery focused.

Minimum Criteria (mandatory)
Criteria
• Occupational Health and Safety Degree or Health and Safety Qualification ranging from European Qualifications Framework levels, 8, 7, 6 or 5
• Trained Structured Incident Investigation Technique
• Registered with IOSH for ‘Initial Professional Development’ (IPD) and the IOSH ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) scheme
• Proven experience in a Health and Safety role within the, engineering or construction sectors.
• Proven experience of delivering and performing Health and Safety audits and inspections for a large business area and presenting reports.
• Proven experience of acting as Health and Safety subject matter expert from creation of procedures to coaching the associated best practice.