Senior SHEQ - Power T&D
OCUPerth, Scotland, United Kingdom
Added 5 Aug · still live
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About the role
Department: Regulated Power
Location: Perth - Scotland
Description
Location: Perth - Scotland | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office & Site Based | Regular Travel
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
At OCU, safety, quality, and operational excellence sit at the heart of everything we do. As a Senior SHEQ Advisor, you'll play a key role in supporting our teams across major infrastructure and utility projects, helping to ensure the highest standards of health, safety, environmental, and quality performance are maintained throughout our operations.
This is an opportunity to influence behaviours, drive continuous improvement, and work closely with operational teams to create safer working environments. If you're passionate about improving standards, building positive safety cultures, and making a meaningful impact across a growing business, we'd like to hear from you.
What You'll Do
Location: Perth - Scotland
Description
Location: Perth - Scotland | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office & Site Based | Regular Travel
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
At OCU, safety, quality, and operational excellence sit at the heart of everything we do. As a Senior SHEQ Advisor, you'll play a key role in supporting our teams across major infrastructure and utility projects, helping to ensure the highest standards of health, safety, environmental, and quality performance are maintained throughout our operations.
This is an opportunity to influence behaviours, drive continuous improvement, and work closely with operational teams to create safer working environments. If you're passionate about improving standards, building positive safety cultures, and making a meaningful impact across a growing business, we'd like to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Develop, implement, and maintain SHEQ policies, procedures, and management systems across the business.
- Conduct site inspections, audits, and risk assessments to identify hazards and drive improvements.
- Advise operational teams on SHEQ legislation, compliance requirements, and best practice.
- Deliver training, briefings, and awareness programmes to support a positive safety culture.
- Investigate accidents, incidents, and near misses, identifying root causes and recommending corrective actions.
- Monitor SHEQ performance metrics and support continuous improvement initiatives across projects and operations.
- Collaborate with managers, employees, subcontractors, and external stakeholders to promote safe and compliant working practices.
- Essential
- Previous experience in a SHEQ, Health & Safety, or HSE advisory role within construction, utilities, infrastructure, engineering, or a similar environment.
- NEBOSH qualification or equivalent health and safety qualification.
- Strong understanding of UK health and safety legislation, standards, and industry best practice.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, audits, inspections, and incident investigations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Desirable
- Experience working within utilities, energy, infrastructure, or construction sectors.
- Bonus if you hold Environmental or Quality-related qualifications.
- It would be great if you are a member of IOSH, IEMA, or another relevant professional body.
- It would be great if you have experience supporting ISO management systems and compliance frameworks.
- Knowledge of environmental management and quality assurance processes would be advantageous.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Jonathan Bryden
at jonathan.bryden@ocugroup.com.
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with OCU, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 3582 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~59k in sampleP25 £38kP75 £57k
£30kmedian £46k£57k
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