Health, Safety and Wellbeing Director; Energy

Overview

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The HSW Director leads the development and delivery of a proactive safety culture across the WSP GGP programme. The role ensures the physical and psychological wellbeing of all those involved in the project — staff, partners, and end users — by embedding consistent safety leadership, compliance, and behavioural engagement.

• Act as a visible and trusted safety leader across the WSP GGP team
• Support the GGP leadership in setting the tone for safety culture.
• Produce and maintain portfolio HSW management plans, and ensure roll-out across the programme
• Provide guidance, inductions, and leadership on health and safety matters.
• Conduct safety tours, audits and intervention programmes as required.
• Attendance at GGP Leadership and wider management meetings as required

• Build strong relationships with health and safety counterparts across National Grid, Partner organisations and the Integrator.
• Integrate and adapt agreed safety programmes into WSP ways of working to align with evolving enterprise standards.

• Coordinate training and induction programmes, including safety stand-downs.
• Identify and address competency gaps (e.g. conflict awareness for survey teams).
• Assign and manage resources to support programme-wide safety capability.

• Lead incident management, safety communications, and participation in leadership forums.
• Improve safety KPIs and reporting processes, ensuring they are meaningful and not administratively burdensome.
• Ensure compliance with WSP, National Grid and agreed GGP HSW requirements.
• Develop structured safety leadership programmes as site activity increases.

• The successful candidate will display the following attributes:
• A strong communicator and relationship builder across internal and external stakeholders.
• Behavioural safety advocate—acting as the “conscience” of the team.
• Strategic thinker with a practical approach to compliance and continuous improvement.
• Trusted point of contact for health, safety, and wellbeing concerns.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

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