Safe Driving Risk and Policy Lead

SGN; Horsham; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Joint pension

Enhanced leave

Life assurance

HolidayPlus

Virtual GP

EAP

Discounts

Job summary

SGN is seeking a Safety Risk and Policy Leader to join our UK team. This role focuses on developing and implementing driving safety policies, ensuring regulatory compliance, and using incident data to drive preventative controls across a highly mobile frontline operation.

You will lead risk assessments, collaborate with contractors, and apply safety standards in high-risk environments, including gas and utilities. The role requires strong policy experience and a background in safety leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified in health and safety with a recognised certificate.
• Proven experience delivering risk reduction through policy for safe driving.
• Knowledge of PPE, confined spaces, excavation, COSHH and working at height.
• Understanding of PUWER, LOLER, CDM, NRSWA regulations.
• Experience supporting risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Ability to work with contractors and monitor compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and monitor targeted health and safety policies and risk controls.
• Govern policies, standards and assurance frameworks underpinning safe driving across SGN.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and effective use of incident data to identify risks.
• Lead additional risk categories across the business as needed.
• Collaborate with contractors and stakeholders to promote safe working practices.

Skills

Policy development

Risk reduction

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Contractor management

Safety training

Education

NEBOSH Gen Cert

IOSH Managing Safely

NVQ Health & Safety

Job description

Across SGN Patch – Farringdon, Horley, Horsham, Ashford, Portsmouth, Poole, Epsom, Aldershot, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisley, Dundee, Aberdeen

Salary - £44.4k – £58.3k (Flexibility depending on qualifications and experience)

Full Time | Hybrid with occasional travel

• Joint-contribution pension from 6% (12% total)
• Enhanced maternity & family leave
• Life assurance
• HolidayPlus
• Virtual GP & Employee Assistance Programme
• plus retail and leisure discounts & many more.

Safe Driving Risk and Policy Leader

Across SGN Patch – Farringdon, Horley, Horsham, Ashford, Portsmouth, Poole, Epsom, Aldershot, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisley, Dundee, Aberdeen

Salary - £44.4k – £58.3k (Flexibility depending on qualifications and experience)

Full Time | Hybrid with occasional travel

• Joint-contribution pension from 6% (12% total)
• Enhanced maternity & family leave
• Life assurance
• HolidayPlus
• Virtual GP & Employee Assistance Programme
• plus retail and leisure discounts & many more.

REQ5798

As our Safety Risk and Policy leader, you’ll provide develop, implement, and monitor targeted health and safety policies and risk controls within your area of expertise, ensuring operational compliance and supporting the broader safety strategy. You will focus on safe driving policy and procedure across SGN.

You will govern the policies, standards, and assurance frameworks that underpin how high-risk work is delivered across SGN, with a focus on safe driving. You will ensure consistent driver competence, robust compliance with regulatory requirements, and the effective use of assurance and incident data to identify emerging risks and implement preventative controls.

Although this role will focus on safe driving and driver risks across a very mobile front-line heavy organisation, you will be flexible in leading additional risk categories across the business.

What You Will Need

• A recognised health and safety qualification (e.g. NEBOSH National General Certificate, IOSH Managing Safely, NVQ Level 3/5 in Occupational Health and Safety Practice), or equivalent knowledge gained through experience
• Proven experience delivering risk reduction through policy and procedure for safe driving across a mobile workforce
• Knowledge or experience in key risk areas such as PPE, confined spaces, excavation, COSHH and working at height
• Understanding of relevant regulations (e.g. PUWER, LOLER, CDM, NRSWA), or the ability to quickly build knowledge and apply them in practical settings
• Experience supporting or contributing to risk assessments, incident investigations, and the implementation of control measures
• Ability to work with contractors and stakeholders to support safe working practices and monitor compliance with standards
• Experience contributing to safety policies, compliance activities, or engaging teams to apply safe ways of working in practice
• Background in gas, utilities, or other high-risk environments, or transferable experience from similar industries, with a general expectation of several years’ relevant experience
• Experience managing changing priority risk categories across safe driving within a mobile frontline heavy organisation and other business areas

Not sure you meet every requirement?

Research shows some people – particularly women and those from underrepresented backgrounds – may hesitate to apply unless they meet every criteria. At SGN, we value diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

If this role interests you but you’re not sure you tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. You might be just who we’re looking for – now or in the future.

Why SGN?

SGN leads pioneering research and development for a net-zero energy system. Our innovative technologies are transforming the gas industry while keeping people safe and warm. We are an award-winning employer, including CCA Gold Awards for Great Places to Work and Inclusivity and Accessibility, and a proud Gold member of the Armed Forces Covenant.

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