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Health and Safety Advisor – Energy from Waste
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We are recruiting for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to support a live Energy from Waste facility in Forth, near Lanark.
This is a highly visible, site-based position offering genuine ownership of day-to-day health and safety activity across a complex industrial operation.
Working closely with the Plant Manager, operational teams, contractors and the Group Head of Health and Safety, you will help maintain legal compliance, improve safety performance and embed a positive, proactive safety culture.
The opportunity would suit a practical and confident safety professional with experience in:
- Energy from Waste
- Biomass or renewable energy
- Power generation
- Utilities
- Process manufacturing
- Chemical or engineering environments
- Heavy industry
The Role
As Health and Safety Advisor, you will be the principal source of health and safety guidance on site.
You will provide practical support to managers, employees and contractors while leading audits, inspections, behavioural safety activity, incident investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.
You will also play a central role during planned plant outages, supporting the safe management of increased contractor numbers and high-risk engineering activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Advising the Plant Manager on legislative, Group and site safety requirements
- Acting as the site lead for health and safety compliance and improvement
- Promoting behavioural safety and positive workforce engagement
- Developing and reviewing site health and safety procedures
- Supporting the implementation and continued development of ISO 45001
- Maintaining the safety elements of the Integrated Business Management System
- Monitoring safety performance and identifying improvement opportunities
- Leading incident and near-miss investigations
- Completing root-cause analysis and embedding lessons learned
- Managing corrective actions from incidents, audits and inspections
- Producing incident reports and weekly safety-performance reports
- Conducting workplace inspections, audits and safety observations
- Managing the site audit and inspection programme
- Supporting contractor management and safe systems of work
- Reviewing permits, risk assessments and method statements
- Representing the site at Group and UK health and safety forums
- Supporting engagement with clients, regulators and external bodies
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During planned plant outages, you will work closely with the outage-management team to ensure all activities are completed safely and in accordance with legal, Group and site requirements.
This will include:
- Developing the outage health and safety plan
- Supporting CDM compliance
- Reviewing contractor-management arrangements
- Agreeing appropriate out-of-hours safety coverage
- Auditing permits, RAMS and safe systems of work
- Conducting inspections, surveillance and compliance audits
- Supporting outage-related incident investigations
- Attending planning and operational meetings
- Advising managers, engineers and contractors
- Producing detailed safety input for outage reports
Requirements
You should have:
- A minimum NEBOSH General Certificate
- Previous health and safety experience within an operational industrial environment
- Experience in Energy from Waste, biomass, power generation, utilities, process manufacturing or heavy industry
- Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation
- Experience conducting audits and workplace inspections
- Practical incident-investigation and root-cause-analysis experience
- Knowledge of ISO management systems, ideally ISO 45001
- Experience reviewing risk assessments, method statements and permits
- The confidence to challenge unsafe practices constructively
- The ability to influence employees, managers and contractors
- Strong written reporting, communication and organisational skills
- Membership of a recognised health and safety professional body
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An auditor qualification, formal incident-investigation training or previous experience as a lead investigator would be advantageous.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established UK energy business and take genuine ownership of safety performance at a live operational facility.
You will benefit from:
- A highly visible and influential site-based position
- Direct access to senior operational and health and safety leaders
- Genuine ownership of site safety performance
- Involvement in major planned plant outages
- The opportunity to shape behavioural safety and site standards
- A technically challenging heavy-industrial environment
- A permanent position within an established UK energy business
- A salary of up to £45,000 plus an excellent benefits package
Apply today to be considered for this Health and Safety Advisor opportunity in Forth, near Lanark.
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