HSE Manager (Power)

Centrica Plc; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica Plc is seeking an HSE Manager to shape the health, safety and environmental strategy across the Power business in the UK and internationally. This role requires a leader to enhance HSE practices, engage teams, and ensure compliance with regulations, ultimately promoting a high-performing safety culture.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in HSE compliance within engineering or large industrial sectors.
• Demonstrable experience with complex safety and environmental compliance risks.

Responsibilities

• Develop HSE strategies that comply with legal and geographical requirements.
• Drive HSE culture and hold teams accountable to delivery standards.

Skills

Leadership

Proactive approach

Risk Management

HSE Culture Improvement

Relationship Building

Education

Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Professional accreditation (IOSH, Chartered Engineer)

Job description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

At Centrica Business Solutions, we’re proud to partner with over 7,000 organisations globally – helping them to balance planet, with profit. We build, operate and maintain onsite, large-scale energy assets like Solar PV and Combined Heat and Power – to help businesses to save the planet and save money. We’re also transforming the UK’s energy landscape by partnering with landowners and developers to build a 900MW portfolio of new grid-scale solar farms and battery storage assets.

Centrica Power is a leading energy infrastructure company in the UK and Irish market with energy assets across conventional and flexible generation, renewable energy and energy storage. Within the current UK & Ireland portfolio, there is c.£2bn gross capital deployed, over 600MW in operation and a further 500MW in construction.

The vision is to be a world leading flexible power asset business that energises a greener, fairer futures across Centrica Business Solutions to share learnings and to leverage expertise that can continue to improve our safety performance.

We are recruiting for a HSE Manager (Power) to set the strategic direction of health, safety and environmental compliance within the Centrica Power business for UK&I and our International regions. The role holder will be expected to lead a team of HSE professionals and deliver against the HSE strategy and any associated business plan.

You will define and deliver HSE practices that meet the needs of the business, promote a proactive HSE culture and help guide the development of medium to long term strategies for improvement, efficiencies and effectiveness using new practices and technologies.

This is a UK Based role (can be based from any Centrica UK site location) but regular travel to attend site meetings will be required (travel c30%). Additionally there will be a requirement for some international travel.

Key accountabilities:

• Partner with Power Leadership Team to design and develop an industry leading HSE strategy, that reaches across all our international markets whilst recognising the requirements of individual geographies

• Drive a culture of relentless focus on improving our HSE throughout the Power business

• Hold leaders and colleagues accountable to high standards on all aspects of HSE delivery

• Collaborate with peers across Power to share learnings and to leverage expertise that can continue to improve our safety performance across the globe

• Act as a thought leader to “bring the outside in”, ensuring professional best practice continually improves everything we do from a HSE perspective

• Hold HSE professionals to account for engaging with the business on all aspects of safety and environmental delivery and embedding a high performing culture

• Maintain oversight of changing legal and other requirements, appraise leadership on changing requirements and control options, and ensure HSE legislative compliance is maintained

• Ensure a deep understanding of the current and changing risk structure of the organisation and develop and implement controls mitigating risk across the Power HSE function.

The Person:

• Possess relevant Health, Safety and Environmental Management, Engineering and/or Sciences qualifications e.g. Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

• Hold an appropriate professional accreditation e.g. Chartered Member of IOSH, Chartered Environmentalist, Chartered Engineer

• Extensive experience managing Health, Safety and Environmental compliance within a engineering/large industrial sector

• Demonstrable experience of managing complex safety and technical safety risks and environmental compliance risks

• Good understanding of Health, Safety and Environmental culture models and experience of improving organisational culture

• Deep knowledge and experience of global HSE practices, legislative requirements and management systems

• Proven track record of being a proactive self-starter

• Proven track record of leadership and managing a team

• Proven track record of influencing, motivating and inspiring organisations at all levels including mentoring senior management teams

• Ability to challenge industry norms and proactively seek opportunities to deliver sustained improvement in performance

• Proven relationship builder, both internally and externally.

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place . Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work . We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexib i lity to choose what you need , when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially , but physically and emotionally too . Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you .

http://www.morethanacareer.energy/cbs

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

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