SHEQ Director

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive. 

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As the SHEQ Director, you will lead the strategic development and implementation of Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality initiatives across the organisation, with a strong focus on behavioural safety and fostering a proactive safety culture. You will champion continuous improvement by embedding safe working behaviours at all levels, ensuring that compliance with legal, regulatory, and company standards is not only met but exceeded. Through visible leadership, coaching, and engagement, you will drive cultural change, promote personal accountability, and ensure that safety is seen as a shared responsibility. Your role will be pivotal in aligning operational practices with our commitment to zero harm and sustainable excellence

This role is pivotal in ensuring that Transmission & Renewables remains fully compliant with relevant safety legislation, through the proactive implementation and management of safety processes and systems. As part of the senior leadership team, you will contribute to shaping strategy, driving execution and tracking the performance of health, safety, environment, sustainability and quality initiatives, supporting the company’s goal of industry leadership.

A key aspect of this position is to develop and maintain strong, positive working relationships with our clients and stakeholders by taking proactive measures to engage and demonstrate visible leadership across our work programmes. You will also collaborate with peers across M Group to maintain service consistency, share best practices and foster innovation. You’ll work closely with all areas of the operational business to ensure Safety, Health, Environmental, Quality, and Competence requirements are clearly communicated, understood, and embedded. You will implement initiatives designed to drive continuous improvement in safety, health, and environmental performance. Ensuring the business consistently exceeds legal compliance standards, whilst fostering a workplace where employees feel safe and protected.

• Develop a thorough understanding of our clients’ requirements including the Great Grid Upgrade Partnership (GGP) and ASTI with SPEN and SSE project and work in close collaboration with the clients to ensure the safe, compliant and effective delivery of business objectives, with a clear focus on health, safety, and risk management
• Responsible for ensuring a robust process is in place to ensure that all serious incidents, failures, and events are thoroughly investigated, root cause analysis is completed, and action plans defined and delivered.
  
• Determine the appropriate managements systems standards, certification and levels of implementation that will ensure that the business meet compliance obligations, function to a high standard but not burden the business with unnecessary process and meet all of regularity requirements.
  
• Work across the business unit teams to identify areas of improvement and good practice and dissemination to others.
  
• Act as the main point of contact for customers, external parties and enforcing agencies on all SHEQ matters.
  
• Ensure that the business is aware of and in a position to respond to changes in legislation, customer requirements and changes in industry practice through networking and analysis.
  
• Produce accurate statistical reports identifying, measuring, and resolving significant risks, nonconformities together with KPI data.
  
• Direct and drive the annual SHEQ objectives and business initiatives.
  
• Direct the development and introduction of systems and tools to meet the requirements of business in the most effective manner.
  
• To carry out routine site visits, including surveys, inspections and audits. Output to include survey reports, inspection reports, actions and any other required documentation to drive continual improvement.
  
• Lead and support a team of Managers to ensure that their areas of responsibilities are performing to the Business and the departments objectives.
  
• Influence at all levels so the key requirements of the department are communicated, understood and implemented by the business.

What you’ll bring 

• Significant experience in similar work at a senior level
• A thorough understanding of the UK Transmission Power industry and/or Renewable Connections markets, including key clients, regulatory bodies, and industry standards.
• Proven experienc in managing and delivering complex projects, including managing scope changes, budgets, and timelines. Ability to monitor and report progress against project KPIs.
• Demonstrates a strong focus on analysing and implementing best practices to support the business’s strategic objectives. Understands the importance of continuous improvement and is committed to developing a high-performance culture.
• Takes responsibility for leading and supervising the team, including setting goals and expectations, providing feedback, support and managing performance. Mentoring less experienced team members, offering guidance and leadership to help them grow professionally.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year 
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

•  25 days annual leave plus bank holidays  
•  Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme 
• Private health care and health care cash plan
• Discretionary bonus scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.