Head of Health & Safety
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 as Head of Health & Safety within our SHEQ team. The ideal candidate location for this role is central to the UK, to be able to visit all sites.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As Head of Health & Safety, you will provide leadership for the Division’s Health & Safety team, driving a proactive, high‑performing safety culture and rigorous compliance.
You'll deliver the Health & Safety strategy, embed consistent standards, and influence behaviours at all levels of the business. Through visible leadership, collaboration and strong stakeholder engagement, you will strengthen client confidence, support operational excellence, and advance our ambition that everybody goes home safe and well, while delivering industry‑leading performance.
What you’ll bring
- Relevant degree level qualification or NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent_.
- Chartered membership of IOSH/IIRSM (CMIOSH or higher).
- Significant senior-level experience in a Health & Safety leadership role.
- Strong understanding of UK Health & Safety legislation and management systems.
- Proven ability to lead cultural change and influence safe behaviours.
- Experience delivering complex projects, managing scope, budgets and timelines.
- Ability to monitor and report performance against project KPIs.
- Strong commitment to best practice application and continuous improvement.
- Experience leading teams, setting expectations, managing performance and mentoring colleagues.
- Experience achieving or maintaining externally audited standards (e.g., ISO 45001, Achilles).
- Visible and engaging leadership style, demonstrating strong influence and the ability to communicate effectively at all organisational levels.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across Divisions and Group‑wide functions.
- Role model behaviours aligned to safety, ethics and professional integrity.
- Customer focused and solution-oriented approach, with a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated track record of driving continuous improvement and innovation within Health & Safety functions.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Willingness to travel to various locations with regular overnight stays
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 1000’s 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
In addition, this role offers
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Fuel card for business use
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 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 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.
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