Health & Safety Specialist

About the job

Do you want to shape the future?

We are offering an exciting opportunity as Health & Safety Specialist to be an important part in paving the way for Vattenfall and its customers and partners towards a fossil free future!

As Health & Safety Specialist you will provide Health & Safety advisory and administrative support to the project in the pre-construction and construction phases of the project to ensure Vattenfall meets its legal H&S obligations and delivers on its ambitions in the development and delivery of the projects to ensure a world class health and safety performance and culture.

Join our journey towards Fossil Free Living within one generation.

The H&S department for Offshore Projects and O&M consist of about 25 people. We are responsible to ensure that the H&S mission and vision of the organization (including the high level policy) gets properly implemented and lived-up to. We have a certified Health and Safety Management System, for which each member requires to support its implementation throughout the appointed sites.

Our long-term vision is to drive the sites and projects to a proficient maturity, where H&S is part of the DNA, and accidents are avoided at all times. Within the team we have a high focus on team development, where over the coming year significant attention will be provided to our team purpose of becoming a “high performing, reliant and resilient H&S team”.

What will you do?

As our new Health & Safety Specialist you will be working for our Norfolk windfarm covering cover all scopes and packages associated in the development and delivery of that offshore wind farm project both offshore and onshore. i.e., Wind Turbine Generators, Foundations, Transmissions and Civils.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Providing administrative support to the project team to assist them in meeting statutory and internal compliance requirements
• Providing administrative support in the execution of the duties of the Client, Principal Contractor, and Principal Designer as required under the Construction Design Management Regulations 2015, in particular administration of the project health and safety file, pre-construction information, F10 notifications, supporting the construction phase plan and permit systems
• Supporting the project document control function as required
• Supporting the implementation of the project safety culture program
• Supporting in carrying out safety studies and risk assessment activities
• Supporting the development and maintenance of the Project Emergency Response Plan, including emergency preparedness analysis
• Supporting the planning and execution of drills/exercises to validate Emergency Response provisions across the project
• Supporting the planning of audits and inspections
• Overseeing incidents and safety observations reports and supporting satisfactory closeout of resultant actions
• Supporting incident investigations as required
• Supporting the supplier selection and procurement process
• Supporting with lessons learned, safety alerts and other health and safety aspects and learnings
• Supporting the development and update safety standards, instructions, codes and guidelines, and formalize them into company documented practices as required
• Ensuring sharing and implementation of these across projects
• Communicating openly to actively engage with the wider Vattenfall community on health and safety

Location

Work location can be London or Hexham to support the Norfolk project. Frequent travel has to be expected.

Your profile

For succeeding in the role

You are action oriented by consistently setting goals for yourself and taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense high energy and enthusiasm. You have an adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations. You have the ability to build strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. You have experience in anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders. It is easy for you to build partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. You relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. You develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Furthermore you have:

• Experience as a H&S professional and administrator preferably in offshore wind, energy or oil and/or gas sectors
• Relevant degree
• Level 3 qualification or above in health and safety
• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in an offshore project’s construction environment
• Full and detailed understanding of applicable legislation, codes, and standards related to health and safety within offshore and onshore construction projects environments
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible, practical and proactive approach to managing operational challenges
• Experience in integrated management systems
• Experience in client/contractor relationships & management
• Excellent English communication skills both verbally and written

Additional information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information
We welcome your application (including CV and cover letter, showing your motivation) in English, no later than, 10th of April. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website due to GDPR.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Antje Niklas Rehn via mail: antje.niklasrehn@vattenfall.com.

Since Vattenfall is a Swedish state owned company and part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. For this position the final candidate will be subject to pre-employment screening process.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

We look forward to receiving your application!

About the company

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.