Head of HSE & Governance

Head of HSE & Governance

Permanent

Location:

Selby, full time on site

Are you a senior HSE leader with experience in the power, energy or process industries sectors? Do you have a proven track record of developing high performing teams? Do you relish a role where you can make a positive impact to both business strategy and site operations?

If your answers are ‘yes’ to these, then this may be the role for you!

Drax is looking for a highly experienced Head of HSE & Governance to provide strategic and operational leadership across a complex, high hazard process environment at our power station in Selby. This is a key leadership role and will operate as part of the power station’s Senior Leadership Team. This pivotal role will provide strategic direction to our Health & Safety, Environmental, Technical Training, Occupational Hygiene and Governance & Integrity teams onsite.

You’ll be a trusted advisor to senior leadership, with a strong focus on process safety, major accident hazard control and regulatory excellence, while driving a positive and proactive safety culture across the organisation. Importantly, as the Head of HSE & Governance you’ll develop high performing teams as they look to establish and lead standards across site, driving sustainable change at Drax Power Station (DPS).

DPS is an exciting place to work, playing a critical role in UK energy security and decarbonisation journey. From large scale generation to fuel handling and engineering systems, the site offers continuous technical challenges and learning.

Who we are:
We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals.

You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come.

About the role:
Reporting to the Group HSE Director, and as a key member of the DPS Senior Leadership Team with a dotted line into the Drax Power Station Plant Director, you’ll take accountability for developing, leading and delivering the HSE strategy for all site activities, teams and plant areas, ensuring that the highest level of safety standards, health and wellbeing, environmental, technical competence, governance and compliance are developed and applied.

As the subject matter expert, you’ll provide HSE & Governance advice to both management and colleagues on HSE & Governance risk activities on our operational sites as we continue to our journey to be a UK leader in dispatchable, renewable generation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide visible, influential HSE leadership across all operations, with a strong emphasis on process safety.
  Embed HSE considerations into strategic decision making, capital projects and operational change (MOC).
• Act as senior and strategic point of contact for regulators, auditors, Excom and Board engagement, visits and external stakeholders.
• Develop and mentor HSE professionals and operational leaders, building long term capabilities. Drive our One Safe Drax  Zero Harm vision, and act as key contributor to the development of the culture, integrated HSE management system, and to assess and assess training requirements and ensure all personnel are adequately trained in environmental and health & safety matters.
• Responsible and accountable for the implementation and management of specific audit standards and quality.

Who we’re looking for:
The successful candidate will have extensive senior-level experience in HSE within a process safety and high hazard environment. You’ll be a proven HSE leader with experience in the power, energy or process industries sectors. You’ll possess a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent, with a professional accreditation preferred. You’ll have experience of leading through change and driving cultural improvements, working with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001.

Knowledge of construction/CDM regulations is desirable.

Importantly, you’ll have…