Senior SHEQ Advisor in Rotherham

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. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity. This is a site-based role working on a high-profile Substation build project in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

What will you be doing? As a Senior SHEQ Advisor, you’re a key part of our Site Project Teams! You’ll work on high profile Substation projects, working directly with site teams and customer representatives. Provide expert SHEQ guidance across complex, high-risk and multi-contract environments, supporting operational teams to deliver safe and compliant projects. Act as a technical lead and escalation point for SHEQ Advisors, offering coaching, mentoring and professional development support. Lead assurance activities including audits, inspections, investigations and compliance reviews, driving continuous improvement and risk reduction. Oversee high-risk work activities, ensuring robust RAMS, permits and safe systems of work are in place and effective. Support incident investigations, root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventative actions. Build strong relationships with clients, contractors and operational stakeholders, representing the SHEQ function in meetings and performance reviews. Support SHEQ reporting, compliance monitoring, competence management and data integrity across contracts. Deputise for the SHEQ Manager when required and provide leadership support across multiple projects and contracts. Contribute to SHEQ initiatives, training programmes, safety campaigns and continuous improvement activities. Maintain oversight of subcontractor competence, certification records, onboarding processes and business identity controls.

Are you passionate about driving positive safety cultures into operational activities and processes? We want to hear from you!

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience as a Safety Advisor in a construction environment (Substation or HV Electric experience)
• NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent).
• Proven audit, investigation and assurance experience.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and their practical application.
• Temporary Works Awareness or Coordination.
• Environmental management awareness.
• Credibility with operational teams and client stakeholders.
• Competent IT skills relevant to SHEQ systems and reporting.
• Valid UK driving licence (due to site-based, multi-contract scope).

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 5/6 in Occupational Health & Safety (working towards with an agreed plan).
• First Aid at Work qualification.
• Behavioural Safety and/or Human Factors training.
• Industry-recognised training in high-risk activity areas (e.g. HSG47, temporary works, lifting, excavations, working at height).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels of the organisation.
• Analytical mindset, supporting risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Strong coaching approach, focused on developing others and sharing knowledge.
• Confidence in challenging poor practice and influencing behaviours at supervisor and manager level.
• Ability to work autonomously while remaining aligned to organisational goals and priorities.

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 1000s 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
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

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.