An opportunity is available for a Safety Culture Lead. All locations within the business will be considered for the successful candidate.

The Safety Culture Lead will work with NG Electricity Distribution (NGED) to generate value as they can operate in a business focused internal consultancy manner. The role will engage and capture relevant business activity and provide improvements, behaviours and good practice, knowledge, insights, and initiatives to advance the Safety maturity within NGED.

As part of our hybrid working approach this role offers a mix of office and home working. Hybrid working can only be considered once your initial training is complete and subject to business need.

Depending on experience, you may initially be appointed at a lower salary until all relevant courses and training are complete.

If you are offered a position, you will be required to successfully complete a basic DBS check that shows any unspent convictions or conditional cautions.

We’re National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED), the owner and operator behind the electricity distribution systems for the Midlands, the Southwest of England and South Wales. Serving communities of more than 8 million people, our expert teams deliver heat, light and power for homes and businesses.

National Grid employs over 29,000 people worldwide. We are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our vision is to be at the heart of a clean, fair and affordable energy future and we are doing this in a fast-moving industry with an increasing focus on tackling climate change, exploring new energy sources that are renewable, low carbon, and improve efficiency to meet demand.

• Proactively partner all departments across NGED to support them to achieve the highest level of health and safety behaviours and maturity, providing high quality risk-based advice and interventions.
• Take the lead on NGED wide behavioural safety programs, ensuring deep collaboration across the business from design to delivery, ensuring programs are fit fur purpose and able to sustain safety performance.
• Proactively partner with the departments across NGED to support them to achieve their objectives by forging strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business unit, and providing high quality, consistent, risk-based advice, and challenge poor Safety behaviours, acting as a trusted advisor to build a reputation as a credible, professional, and flexible Safety professional.
• Work with teams across NGED on the development of Safety requirements of the Safety management system, effectively communicate how to embed management system requirements and advise on the development of the business specific management systems to deliver what is required.
• Work with teams to provide tailored, specialised solutions to business problems and improve Safety behaviours and share learnings.
• To fully understand the business environment to provide accurate and timely support that is strategically appropriate.
• Provide generalist Behavioural Safety support services across NGED, acting as the first point of contact for internal partners within NGED who require support with Behavioural Safety related issues, carrying out work as set by business demands and in conjunction with guidance from the Head of Safety.
• Proactively seek information about internal and external trends to advance NGED’s Safety behaviours and maturity and meet the company’s Safety Ambition, ensuring that the Safety practices of the organisation are highly customer-focussed, fit for purpose, simple, advanced, and effective
• Work at management level with external organisations such as the ENA and undertake internal and external benchmarking to drive improvement in behavioural change across the industry, establish common standards and share learning.
• Liaise with Enforcement agencies on behalf of business.

• Demonstrable working experience providing professional, risk-based advice, tailored to the needs of complex business operations, ideally within a large, global, or utility sector organisation. It would be an advantage to have a good understanding of National Grid’s business.
• Detailed practical knowledge and conceptual understanding of Safety legislation and Safety innovation and best practice
• Change agent characteristics, passionate about behavioural Safety culture development & has tackled such development within previous roles.
• Experience of working with cross industry groups and forums and with trade unions
• Influencing and communication skills to build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation and with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse complex situation and make well-considered decisions quickly and confidently.
• Experience of managing projects from initiation to implementation & review
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in an engineering discipline or suitable alternative experience.
• Holds or is working towards technical/professional qualification such as CMIOSH, NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent experience
• Relevant Knowledge of Safety legislation
• Industry experience and appreciation of National Grid’s wider business operations and Safety policies & maturity journeys desirable

Evidence of your qualifications will be required prior to appointment.

To be successful in this role you must be able/willing to travel across the UK & have worked on similar Maturity & Safety Behavioural development programs

Joining the UK’s leading electricity distribution business means plenty of career opportunities and well-deserved recognition. We reward hard work and encourage ambition. So, as well as a competitive salary, you will also benefit from:

• 26 days paid leave plus 8 bank holidays, up to 28 days with continuous service
• Competitive contributory pension scheme (we double match your contributions up to a maximum of 12%)
• Annual Share Save plan
• Contributory private healthcare scheme for you and your family
• Support via our Employee Assistance Programme, including musculoskeletal and physiotherapy services
• Free on-site parking at all our main sites

Things you need to know

As an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we celebrate individual difference and are actively bringing in more employees from diverse backgrounds to build on our inclusive culture. We anonymise all applications in our recruitment system so we can eliminate unconscious bias and be a workplace that reflects the community we serve. Hiring managers only have access to necessary information at interview stage. If you require additional support to complete your online application, please email nged.recruitment@nationalgrid.co.uk

Recruitment correspondence is usually sent by email, please check your email account including spam/junk folders regularly after the closing date.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient numbers of suitable applications be received, so it would be best to apply as soon as you can.