Senior SHEQ Advisor

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.

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:

• 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

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 Nicola.stevenson@ocugroup.com.

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

About OCU Group

At OCU Group, we don't just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.

As one of the UK's fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK's energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.

Whether you're an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.

We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.

At OCU, you won't just join a growing business, you'll help shape it.

Our Culture & Values

At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.