Senior SHEQ Advisor

Department: SHEQ & Growth

Location: Ruislip

Description You’ll join OCU’s Power division at a time of significant growth, supporting the delivery of major electrical infrastructure projects that are critical to the UK’s energy network. Working across a fast-paced operational environment, you’ll play a key leadership role in driving safety, compliance and performance across live projects.

This is an opportunity to influence safety culture at scale, working closely with operational teams while helping to shape high standards of health, safety, environmental and quality performance across complex and high-value projects.

What You'll Do You’ll act as a trusted SHEQ partner to operational teams across a range of power and electrical projects, providing practical guidance and support to ensure safe and compliant delivery. Working closely with site teams, management and contractors, you’ll help embed a proactive safety culture while maintaining high standards across all activities.

You’ll carry out site inspections, audits and investigations to ensure compliance with company procedures, client requirements and UK legislation. A key part of your role will involve supporting the reporting and investigation of incidents and near misses, producing detailed reports and root cause analysis while driving improvements across operational delivery.

As a senior member of the SHEQ team, you’ll provide coaching and mentoring to operational teams and supervisors, helping to build capability and ensure best practice is applied consistently across projects. You’ll work across live environments, including DNO and IDNO frameworks, supporting teams in maintaining safe and effective working practices.

You’ll also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, supporting the development of systems, processes and performance across the wider business while ensuring safety remains at the centre of all project delivery.

Essential What You'll Bring

• Proven experience as a Senior SHEQ Advisor within utilities, construction or civil engineering environments
• Strong experience working on power or electrical infrastructure projects
• In-depth knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and compliance requirements
• Experience supporting incident investigation, reporting and root cause analysis
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable

• Experience working within DNO or IDNO environments
• NCRQ Level 6, NVQ Level 6, NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification
• EUSR or CSCS Health and Safety certification
• Experience mentoring or supporting operational teams in SHEQ best practice

Benefits At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.

Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.

As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.

For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Nicola Stevenson at [email protected] .

We review applications every day and may close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. We encourage early applications.

To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing [email protected].