Conventional Safety Compliance Lead

Are you an experienced Industrial Safety professional interested in working in a thriving industry? Are you keen to work in an essential compliance role, in an environment where you can make a real difference to our station’s safety performance? This new vacancy at Heysham 2 Power Station may just be the role for you!

The Opportunity

The Conventional Safety Compliance Lead will play a key role in supporting the station occupational health and safety management system by assessing compliance with company and regulatory expectations whilst helping to deliver continuously improving performance.

You’ll be influencing the station approach to all aspects of conventional health and safety by developing and maintaining a compliance evaluation programme. This will allow you to assess compliance, identify trends and set strategy for improvements. You will also be required to provide advice and leadership to management on all conventional health and safety risks and deliver conventional health and safety interventions at site.

Pay, benefits and culture

We can offer a competitive salary from £40,069 - £84,892 and you’ll be appointed based on the parameters outlined in the Nuclear Generation Company Agreement as well as your existing salary, competence, experience and qualifications. This is a full time, site-based position.

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining a risk-based evaluation of the compliance programme, reporting on results as required for all Conventional Health and Safety risks.
• Ensuring effective corrective action is taken to address identified shortfalls. 
• Maintaining the station Key Risk Register and communicating any shortfalls or non-conformities to station leadership and other stakeholders.
• Working closely with peers around the nuclear fleet and the Conventional Safety Compliance Lead in our Central Services team, to ensure the organisation is proactive in ensuring compliance with legal requirements. 
• Maintaining knowledge and awareness of upcoming changes to Health and Safety legislation.
• Liaise with internal/external regulators and other applicable external bodies on Conventional Health and Safety.

Who you are

• As a minimum, you’ll need an HNC (or Level 4 equivalent qualification) in a relevant subject.
• Knowledge of HSE regulatory framework and UK Conventional Health and Safety legislation relevant to Nuclear Power Station operations.
• Knowledge and understanding of Company safety management system, AMS and of the EDF AGS process is beneficial, although these can be acquired once in post.
• Knowledge of ISO 45001 and auditing experience is beneficial.
• Previous supervision and leadership experience is advantageous.
• An ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Any applicant with a NEBOSH certificate/diploma or similar will have an advantage.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday April 30th

Interviews will be held week commencing Monday May 13th  

Applicants will be required to obtain CTC level vetting prior to taking up their duties.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

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