HSE Manager-Renewables

Role overview

HSE leadership and delivery

• Develop and improve the project HSE management plan and procedures in line with applicable requirements.
• Provide HSE leadership through development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Coordinate HSE matters as the primary contact for project leadership, contractors, consultants, manufacturers, utilities, grid stakeholders, and authorities.
• Establish governance covering solar PV, battery storage, electrical facilities, grid connections, temporary facilities, and logistics.
• Review designs and execution plans to identify and reduce risks; approve contractor HSE plans, risk assessments, method statements, lifting plans, and emergency arrangements.
• Lead risk assessments for high-risk electrical, battery, lifting, height, excavation, confined-space, hot-work, interface, and simultaneous-operation activities.
• Manage and mentor HSE personnel and conduct site inspections, safety walks, audits, and joint inspections.
• Monitor contractor HSE performance and corrective actions, tracking findings to closure.

Training, incident, and environmental duties

• Deliver inductions, briefings, awareness campaigns, and targeted training for employees and contractors.
• Develop and test emergency arrangements for construction, electrical, battery, fire, environmental, and medical emergencies.
• Oversee incident notification, investigation, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Coordinate waste, spill, dust, noise, hazardous-material, biodiversity, and regulatory environmental controls.
• Prepare HSE reports, dashboards, and management updates; facilitate stakeholder meetings and promote an intervention-led safety culture.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, or a relevant discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant HSE experience, including substantial work on major power, renewable energy, energy storage, electrical infrastructure, or similarly complex construction programmes.
• Knowledge of solar PV, battery energy storage, high-voltage systems, substations, and grid interconnection HSE risks.
• Understanding of construction HSE, contractor assurance, design risk management, commissioning, and energization controls.

Skills and tools

• Leadership, influencing, stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, investigation, and report writing.
• Ability to prioritize risks, challenge unsafe practices, and provide practical technical solutions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital HSE reporting or action-tracking systems.