SHEQ Director
We are looking for a SHEQ Director to lead Safety, Health, Environment & Quality across the organisation.
This is a high-impact, transformation role, reporting into the senior leadership team, with regular exposure to executive leadership and shareholders.
The successful candidate will take ownership of SHEQ, ensuring the business becomes a credible, safety-first, high-performing infrastructure operator.
Client Details
Our client is a growing energy infrastructure and services platform, focused on delivering and operating low-carbon heating and cooling solutions across residential and commercial developments.
Operating a portfolio of energy centres and district energy networks, the business plays a key role in supporting urban decarbonisation and the energy transition. Backed by long-term institutional investors, the company is entering a critical phase focused on performance improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.
Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and deliver a modern SHEQ strategy aligned with business goals and operational risk
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on safety, compliance, and risk
- Drive a company-wide shift to proactive safety behaviours and ownership
- Oversee safety across: • Operational energy and engineering assets
- Infrastructure and distribution systems
- Construction, commissioning, and maintenance activities
- Ensure robust systems for: • Permit-to-work
- Isolation and authorisation
- Contractor management
- Lead high-quality incident investigations focused on root cause and learning
- Embed a "safety-first" culture across all levels of the organisation
- Improve reporting and data integrity, ensuring accurate and transparent insights
- Drive accountability for SHEQ beyond the central function into operational teams
- Own SHEQ reporting for executive leadership and investors
- Develop meaningful performance indicators and dashboards
- Engage with regulators, external stakeholders, and industry bodies
- Lead and develop an established SHEQ and compliance team
- Strengthen capability, standards, and ways of working
- Build credibility across a team with established legacy practices
- The role sits within a high-risk, engineering-led operational environment, involving: • Energy generation and plant operations
- Mechanical and electrical systems
- Pressurised and gas-based infrastructure
- Confined spaces and chemical management
- Extensive contractor interfaces across multiple live sites.
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) essential, with strong knowledge of engineering-led high-risk environments
- Qualification in Environmental Management (e.g. IEMA) desirable
- Strong understanding of: • District heating / cooling operations
- Energy centres and plant environments
- Process safety and engineering compliance
- Deep knowledge of UK safety, environmental, and quality legislation
- Experience leadingSHEQ within: • Utilities
- Energy infrastructure
- Industrial engineering environments
- Or construction (with strong operational exposure)
- Strategic thinker with the ability to operate at executive and investor level
- Demonstrated success in driving cultural and behavioural change
- Ability to influence and build credibility across both: • Senior leadership teams
- Operational and frontline teams
Lead SHEQ transformation in a growing, infrastructure-led business.
High visibility with senior leadership and investors.
Opportunity to build a credible, modern safety culture from the ground up.
Operate in a sector critical to the future of energy and sustainability.
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