Health & Safety Specialist

About the Role

Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future

The opportunity

Offshore Wind Health & Safety Specialist - Champion Zero Harm!

Join EDF Renewables UK & Ireland and play a vital role in driving our Zero Harm ambitions across our Offshore Wind portfolio-from development to operations and maintenance.

As part of the Offshore Wind & Ireland H&S team, you'll ensure safety is embedded by design in early project phases and oversee high-risk activities like construction, operations, and maintenance. You'll also lead incident learning and continuous improvement to keep our teams safe.

Collaboration is key! You'll work across multiple teams and technologies, partnering with H&S colleagues and the Corporate HSE team to share best practices and elevate safety standards across EDF Renewables.

Ready to make a real impact in offshore wind safety? Join us!

Pay, benefits and culture

If you're looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future - then you're in the right place!

We're committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life.

We'll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that's on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We're committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone's Welcome inclusion programme.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you'll be doing

You'll be a visible leader, ensuring safety is a top priority at every stage-from design to operations.

What You'll Do:

1. Lead by example-champion safe working practices and high HSE standards
2. Shape culture-promote accountability and behavioural change in H&S
3. Develop & implement robust safety systems and procedures
4. Monitor & improve-audit, assess, and drive continual improvement
5. Collaborate & engage-work across teams, industry forums & communities
6. Support & train-advise on best practices, regulations & emergency planning

What do you need to be great at this role?

You'll have experience of managing a health and safety function in developing projects and operational / multi-site environment.

• Be qualified to NEBOSH Diploma level or equivalent.
• Engineering, construction and/or offshore wind experience is desirable.
• Experience in high voltage equipment, switching and some offshore experience is desirable.
• Chartered member of IOSH (or similar) or working towards CMIOSH status.
• GWO training / certificates desirable.
• Being able to work at heights is desirable.

Technical skills:

• Ability to provide practical H&S advice, input and support (Inc. legislation/regulation that applies to the UK & Ireland).
• Effective communication skills, including written, on a one-to-one basis as trainer or coach, and with groups of people.
• Ability to undertake offshore survival training and work on offshore assets.
• Ability to influence behavioural change throughout all stages of the asset lifecycle.
• Ability to form effective working relationships with staff at all levels, including the ability to influence behaviour by reasoned argument.
• Competence as a risk assessor across the full range of qualitative risk assessment areas.
• Ability to carry out detailed incident investigations to establish root and underlying causes and provide robust recommendations to prevent future reoccurrence.
• Ability to prioritise effectively and consistently deliver against tight time constraints while working flexibly as part of a team.
• Ability to work at height in enclosed areas using ladders and fall arrest equipment to access wind turbines.
• Work flexibly; making site visits as required, to provide required services and support.
• Be prepared and willing to react to business needs in an emergency.
• Ability to adapt to different situations and work under pressure.
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office packages (MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, Outlook, etc.)

Closing date for applications: 11th March 2025

Location: Durham, London, Edinburgh, Dublin

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we're committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It's a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland's challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland's most diverse generator of renewable energy.

If you're passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

What's in it for you?
Join us, and let's do good together.