Are you an experienced HSE leader with a proven track record of driving high standards across major construction or energy infrastructure programmes? Can you set uncompromising standards, influence senior stakeholders and hold complex contractor environments to account while maintaining a strong, credible presence on site?
If so, this could be the role for you!
Drax is looking for a Head of HSE - Major Projects to define, lead and implement the HSE standards across a portfolio of large-scale capital projects. Working alongside Project Directors, you'll make sure new-build and construction programmes are delivered safely, compliantly and in line with Drax's expectations.
This is a high impact role spanning complex, high-risk infrastructure programmes, including power generation, energy infrastructure and engineering developments. You'll set client-side HSE expectations for EPC contractors and suppliers, provide executive-level assurance and create the conditions for excellent safety performance across every stage of project delivery.
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.
Reporting to the Group HSE Director, with a dotted line to the Project Development & Delivery Director, you’ll lead the HSE agenda across major capital projects. You’ll work closely with project teams to set out clear standards, effective assurance and provide a strong on-site performance.
This is a broad, highly visible role requiring someone who can shape HSE programmes while remaining closely connected to delivery on the ground. You’ll provide leadership across a multi-project environment, ensuring legal and statutory requirements are met, risks are controlled and contractors understand exactly what good looks like. From pre-construction planning and contract requirements through to construction, commissioning and handover, you’ll embed HSE into decisions and delivery.
Key accountabilities include:
You’ll be an accomplished and influential HSE leader with a strong track record of driving high standards across major construction, infrastructure or energy projects.
You’ll have a proven track record of shaping HSE outcomes within large-scale, high-risk capital programmes and be comfortable operating in complex stakeholder environments involving project teams, contractors, regulators and senior leadership.
Critically, you’ll bring a breadth of experience across the full project lifecycle – from the early development, pre-construction through construction, commissioning and handover. You’ll have worked across a range of contracting arrangements and be credible operating from the perspectives of the client, principal contractor and contractor.
This role requires a rare combination: someone capable to shaping HSE governance, providing robust and independent audit and assurance and providing a practical visible presence on site.
As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support your lifestyle. If successful in this role, you’ll get:
We’re committed to making a tangible impact on the climate challenge we all face. Drax is where your individual purpose can work alongside your career drive. We work as part of a team that shares a passion for doing what’s right for the future. With Drax you can shape your career and a future for generations to come.
Together, we make it happen.
At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background.
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Drax is enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future is Drax Group’s purpose and in 2019, it announced a world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030, using Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technology to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere at scale whilst delivering reliable renewable electricity.
