Industrial Safety Engineer

EDF Energy; Morecambe; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Electric vehicle leasing

Health insurance

Product discounts

Critical illness insurance

Technology vouchers

Gym membership

Season ticket loans

Job summary

EDF Energy in the United Kingdom seeks an industrial safety expert to provide leadership across the site, ensuring robust safety arrangements align with company and regulatory expectations while driving continuous improvement. The role focuses on delivering expert health and safety advice to line management and departments and fostering a strong safety culture.

You will monitor compliance, lead investigations, and develop programmes to evaluate safety performance.

Qualifications

• Detailed knowledge of driving and improving safety culture within a high-risk organisation.
• Knowledge of HSE regulatory framework and UK safety legislation relevant to nuclear operations.
• Familiarity with safety management systems and monitoring processes.
• Ability to challenge and coach across levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist industrial safety advice to site management and departments.
• Liaise with Regulators and external bodies on safety matters.
• Evaluate compliance with safety requirements and report on improvements.
• Develop and maintain a compliance evaluation programme for health and safety.
• Investigate events to identify root causes and drive CAP-led actions.
• Advise on training needs and support delivery of safety inputs.
• Promote a positive safety profile by field presence.

Skills

Safety culture

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Influencing skills

Risk management

Education

NEBOSH Certificate

Job description

About the Role

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will provide industrial safety expertise and leadership support to the site to ensure that appropriate industrial safety arrangements are in place, and the station is meeting company and regulatory expectations whilst also delivering continuously improving performance.

As an industrial safety subject matter expert, the candidate will be required to provide health and safety advice and information to line management and departments across station as well as driving improvements in safety culture.

Pay, benefits and culture

The salary range associated with this role is between £47,513 – £84,595 and you'll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

We'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you'll be doing

Nature and Scope

• Supporteffective risk identification and management processes.
• Supportthe development of a positive safety culture and promote greater safety awareness.
• Monitorand reportindustrial safety performance on behalf of the site, identifying and recommendingappropriate countermeasures to address emerging adverse trends.
• Monitorand reporton compliance with, and effectiveness of, site safety management arrangements, making recommendations for improvement where necessary.
• Developand maintaina compliance evaluation programme for industrial health and safety againstcompany and legal requirements. Identifies and reports results and progresses the resolution of areas for improvement.
• Maintainregister of legislative compliance arrangements for the site.
• Supportthe investigation of events ensuring that root causes are effectively identified and addressedwithin the CAP process.
• Adviseon industrial safety training needs and support effective delivery of training inputs whereappropriate.
• Promoteand maintaina positive industrial safety profile by spending time in the field.

Principal Accountabilities

• Accountable for providing specialist industrial safety advice to line management and departments across site whilst delivering agreed targets.
• Liaisewith the internal / external Regulator and other applicable external bodies on industrial safetymatters.
• Evaluateand reporton compliance with legal and company / site industrial safety requirements.
• Engagewith fleet experts as a key stakeholder in the revision or production of industrial safety standards orguidelines for company wide application.
• Participatewithin the Industrial Safety Peer Group network in the development and implementation offleet-wide continuous improvement initiatives and sharing of good practice.
• Devise and run safety improvement campaigns.

Who you are

Detailed Knowledge of driving and improving safety culture within a high-risk organisation.

Knowledge of HSE regulatory framework, and UK safety legislation relevant to Nuclear Power StationOperations and site licence requirements.

Knowledge of key industrial safety risks present within nuclear power stations and of applicable control measures to mitigate risks.

Knowledge of company safety management system and associated industrial safety standards,specifications and guidelines in place to provide safe systems of working within the power stationenvironment.

Knowledge of safety auditing & monitoring processes.

Ability to positively challenge and coach.

The ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

Any Applicant with a NEBOSH Certificate and/or a Demonstrable proven track record of influencing Safety Culture within a High-Risk organisation will have a distinct advantage.

Closing date for applications is Wednesday November 4th, and interviews will take place week mid to late November

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) which will, ordinarily, require you to have British residency for the last 3 years.

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