Electrical Safety Officer

TN United Kingdom; Hexham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in renewable energy is seeking an Electrical Safety Officer to enhance safety standards across its Wind portfolio. The role involves strategic leadership, stakeholder management, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the organization's commitment to fossil-free living.

Benefits

Good remuneration

Challenging international work environment

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in Electrical Safety and understanding of regulatory landscape.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Electrical Safety Committee and represent Wind in the Electrical Safety Board.
• Conduct risk assessments and compliance checks.
• Define training and competence requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Communication

Collaboration

Influencing

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering

Job description

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Are you ready to shape the future of renewable energy by making safety not just a priority – but a culture?

We offer an exciting opportunity for a passionate and structured professional to take a leading role in setting the benchmark for electrical safety across Vattenfall’s Wind portfolio. Join us in driving the transition to fossil free living by creating safer, more standardized and collaborative ways of working – with real impact across our entire Business Area Wind.

Help us reach fossil freedom – safely and smartly

In our People, Culture and Standards department within Vattenfall's Business Area Wind, we work every day to ensure the health and safety of our people, partners and operations. Electrical safety is a key pillar in enabling the energy transition at scale and speed – and we need a leader who can elevate our work across borders and disciplines.

That’s why we are now looking to hire an Electrical Safety Officer.

Your role:

As our Electrical Safety Officer, you will play a central role in shaping and driving the electrical safety strategy across BA Wind. You will lead the Electrical Safety Committee and represent Wind in the Vattenfall Group-wide Electrical Safety Board, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.

This is a unique opportunity to make a measurable impact on our organization. You’ll act as a key advisor, project manager, and facilitator – bringing technical excellence and stakeholder alignment together. From leading internal initiatives to representing Vattenfall in external collaborations, your work will help prevent harm to people and assets and contribute to our fossil free mission.

This role is as much about leadership and influence as it is about expertise – you’ll be required to communicate with confidence, structure complex safety challenges into clear action plans, and drive implementation across geographies and disciplines.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Set and steer the strategic direction for electrical safety in BA Wind
• Manage the electrical safety process and its supporting documentation
• Lead the Electrical Safety Committee and represent Wind in the Electrical Safety Board
• Act as the focal point for regulatory compliance and industry engagement
• Represent Vattenfall Wind in internal and external regulatory, safety, and technical forums
• Conduct risk assessments and compliance checks, driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Communicate risks and safety insights clearly to Wind management teams
• Support investigations and develop risk mitigation strategies
• Define training and competence requirements, and support their implementation
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across projects and business units

Location

The position is flexible in any of our key wind locations: London, Hexham, Hamburg, Berlin, Kolding, Amsterdam or Solna..

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of renewable energy by making safety not just a priority – but a culture?

We offer an exciting opportunity for a passionate and structured professional to take a leading role in setting the benchmark for electrical safety across Vattenfall’s Wind portfolio. Join us in driving the transition to fossil free living by creating safer, more standardized and collaborative ways of working – with real impact across our entire Business Area Wind.

Help us reach fossil freedom – safely and smartly

In our People, Culture and Standards department within Vattenfall's Business Area Wind, we work every day to ensure the health and safety of our people, partners and operations. Electrical safety is a key pillar in enabling the energy transition at scale and speed – and we need a leader who can elevate our work across borders and disciplines.

That’s why we are now looking to hire an Electrical Safety Officer.

Your role:

As our Electrical Safety Officer, you will play a central role in shaping and driving the electrical safety strategy across BA Wind. You will lead the Electrical Safety Committee and represent Wind in the Vattenfall Group-wide Electrical Safety Board, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.

This is a unique opportunity to make a measurable impact on our organization. You’ll act as a key advisor, project manager, and facilitator – bringing technical excellence and stakeholder alignment together. From leading internal initiatives to representing Vattenfall in external collaborations, your work will help prevent harm to people and assets and contribute to our fossil free mission.

This role is as much about leadership and influence as it is about expertise – you’ll be required to communicate with confidence, structure complex safety challenges into clear action plans, and drive implementation across geographies and disciplines.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Set and steer the strategic direction for electrical safety in BA Wind
• Manage the electrical safety process and its supporting documentation
• Lead the Electrical Safety Committee and represent Wind in the Electrical Safety Board
• Act as the focal point for regulatory compliance and industry engagement
• Represent Vattenfall Wind in internal and external regulatory, safety, and technical forums
• Conduct risk assessments and compliance checks, driving continuous improvement initiatives
• Communicate risks and safety insights clearly to Wind management teams
• Support investigations and develop risk mitigation strategies
• Define training and competence requirements, and support their implementation
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across projects and business units

Location

The position is flexible in any of our key wind locations: London, Hexham, Hamburg, Berlin, Kolding, Amsterdam or Solna..

Qualifications

Your profile

You are a structured and influential professional who brings both deep technical understanding and a talent for stakeholder management. You thrive in a complex, fast-paced environment where your ability to connect the dots – between strategy, safety, and execution – truly matters.

As our Electrical Safety Officer, you will bring:

• A Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Solid experience in Electrical Safety and a strong understanding of its regulatory landscape
• Effective stakeholder management and project management skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing capabilities – both written and verbal
• A proactive mindset with the ability to challenge, lead, and guide others
• Experience leading or participating in external industry and regulatory initiatives is a plus
• Familiarity with large-scale renewable energy projects or electrical infrastructure environments (e.g., wind energy, oil & gas, utilities)

Additional Information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information
We welcome your application in English, as soon as possible and as long the vacancy is published on this careerpage.We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website and that you refrain from submitting a cover letter with your application. You apply quickly and easily by answering screening questions and attaching your CV.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Jurriaan Rang via email [emailprotected] .

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

We look forward to receiving your application!