Construction Safety Specialist

About the role

Drive a positive health and wellbeing culture at the heart of National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET)

Are you committed to fostering an inclusive and robust health and wellbeing culture through meaningful engagement, teamwork, and collective commitment? Do you seek opportunities within an organisation that places equal emphasis on health, wellbeing, and safety, recognising the importance of strategic partnerships?

As a Construction Safety Specialist, you will be integral to shaping a unified approach to health, safety, and wellbeing across our construction projects, including Overhead Lines, Substation builds, cable works, and maintenance activities. You will work in close coordination with colleagues, leaders, and supply chain partners, conducting regular site visits to strengthen relationships, facilitate transparent communication, and reinforce safety compliance with a focus on key construction risks. By empowering all stakeholders to embrace safety leadership, you will contribute to embedding a culture of mutual accountability throughout the business.

Your role will encompass monitoring and assuring safety standards, as well as providing coaching, guidance, training, and motivation to managers, staff, and contracting partners. Leveraging your expertise in construction safety, you will deliver specialist advice on industry standards, the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and relevant National Grid procedures. You will play a pivotal role in advancing NGET’s Health, Safety & Wellbeing Plan, supporting the business and our supply chain in adopting behavioural safety practices to ensure that safety is a shared responsibility rather than merely a compliance requirement.

Additionally, you will assist with incident investigations and lessons learned initiatives, engaging with all internal and external parties to share insights, give guidance and collectively enable tangible lessons learned and implement improvements.

This position is based one day per week at our Warwick office. You will balance regular site and office engagements with hybrid remote working, ensuring availability and support for both NGET teams and supply chain partners.

What you'll need

With a thorough knowledge of health and safety legislation and behavioural safety programmes, you’ll have ideally worked in a similar construction health and safety role.

You’ll have a strong understanding and working knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 with demonstrable experience from either the client or contractor side, working with other duty holders, and ensuring compliance.

A good awareness of industry standard policies, procedures, and how projects are delivered during the construction phase is key, along with experience of developing and communicating robust assurance programmes that engage site teams and supply chain partners.

Experience in conducting incident investigations and report writing skills, including root cause analysis and recommendation and implementation of preventative actions is essential, as is experience of wide stakeholder engagement and management, great inter-personal skills and experience of coaching and motivating people.

In addition, you'll have experience of developing new safety processes and procedures involving others and delivering briefings, training, communication of changes to ensure understanding and effective implementation, as well as experience of delivering safety or health and wellbeing culture programmes.

You will hold a NEBOSH General Certificate (OHS) or Construction Certificate/Health and Safety Management for Construction (UK) and have a current full driving licence.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary of £54,000 - £65,000 

• Job requirement car

• Annual Performance Based Bonus
• 26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days 
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days 
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it is relevant to your role
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
• Access to a numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

More Information

This role closes at midnight on 27th October 2025 however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

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