Safety Culture Transformation Lead

ESB; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ESB is seeking an experienced Safety Culture specialist to design and deliver pivotal safety, health and wellbeing culture initiatives aligned with our Net Zero 2040 ambition and Safety Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2026–2030. The role leads a team across ESB to embed S&S across the organisation.

You will partner with OD and HR leaders to implement evidence-based interventions that improve safety, employee experience and performance, while modelling inclusive leadership.

Qualifications

• A Third level qualification in safety, health, environment, HR, organisation development, engineering, or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in roles related to safety, leadership, or organisational development or relevant industry experience
• Deep understanding of culture transformation principles, with a strong commitment to safety ethos, leadership development, and coaching
• Self-motivation with the ability to motivate, lead, and raise team performance levels
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing ability to build relationships and drive collaboration across all levels
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills and the ability to engage effectively with direct reports, managers at all levels, staff and third parties
• Strong problem‑solving skills combined with resilience and adaptability in complex environments and situations
• Good knowledge of the ESB businesses
• Experience in a health, safety or well‑being capacity

Responsibilities

• Ensure alignment of S&S and other Safety Culture works with Our Behaviours
• Partner with business units and transformation teams on the people and culture elements of S&S and other change initiatives—supporting stakeholder engagement, readiness, adoption, communications and reinforcement
• Lead and develop a team of culture partners / coaches
• Collaborate with the wider Culture & OD Strategy Manager to align S&S with group-wide culture and capability programmes
• Provide expertise in culture transformation, change management and adaptive leadership, including identifying emerging trends
• Build leadership capability by modelling best practice, promoting psychological safety and supporting collaborative decision making
• Coach and develop team members to foster a high performance, open & inclusive culture where people feel valued and trusted
• Conduct diagnostics using interviews, focus groups, engagement insights and organisational data, translating findings into clear recommendations and actions
• Support development of meaningful measures for OD and culture work, contributing to tracking, reporting and continuous improvement

Skills

Culture transformation

Leadership development

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Change management

Communication

Education

Third level qualification

Job description

ESB is seeking an experienced Safety Culture specialist to design and deliver pivotal safety, health and wellbeing culture initiatives aligned with our Net Zero 2040 ambition and Safety Health and Wellbeing Strategy 2026–2030. The role leads a team across ESB to embed S&S across the organisation.

You will partner with OD and HR leaders to implement evidence-based interventions that improve safety, employee experience and performance, while modelling inclusive leadership.