Specialista na bezpečnost a ochranu zdraví při práci v offshore

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The Team

Ireland's offshore grid programme is a critical national infrastructure initiative supporting the country's 2030 renewable energy targets. EirGrid, as the designated Offshore Asset Owner (OAO), is responsible for ensuring the timely delivery, readiness, and operation of offshore transmission assets. The Offshore Programme Management Office (PMO) and Offshore Phase 1 Delivery Team play a central role in coordinating this transformation, ensuring robust governance, regulatory alignment, and delivery assurance across a multi-billion euro capital programme.

The Opportunity

The Offshore Health & Safety specialist, will support the Head of Offshore Phase 1 in delivering this transformation by leading key workstreams across the Offshore Asset Readiness Programme (OARP), Pre-Operations, and Enduring Operations. The role will ensure that programme delivery is aligned with the CRU's Offshore Revenue Model and EirGrid's strategic objectives.

The Offshore Health & Safety specialist will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of EirGrid's offshore programme by managing the delivery of key regulatory, governance, and reporting workstreams. The role will lead offshore health and safety assurance.

The role requires strong health and safety expertise across high-voltage transmission and offshore operations, with the ability to develop safe systems of work, strengthen safety culture, and lead cross-functional engagement. The successful candidate will will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy and influence. Providing specialist advice to senior stakeholders, industry partners and regulatory bodies across a maturing offshore portfolio.

About you

Essential

• Offshore Health and Safety expertise
• Degree-level qualification, or equivalent professional standing, with a minimum of 8 years' relevant health and safety experience.
• Proven health and safety experience within high-voltage transmission, offshore energy, utilities or similarly complex regulated infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of safety legislation, regulatory expectations, risk management and operational assurance frameworks.
• Excellent communication and consultation skills, with the ability to explain complex safety issues clearly and influence senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and consult across regulators, industry bodies, contractors and internal stakeholder groups.
• Experience developing safe systems of work and leading safety culture improvement across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with sound judgement in managing significant operational and occupational risks.

Desirable

• Offshore Transmission Safety Expertise
• Experience supporting offshore substations, export cables, offshore wind or interconnection assets.
• Familiarity with Irish offshore, maritime and occupational safety regulation and regulatory engagement.
• Chartered membership of a recognised safety body, or an equivalent professional health and safety qualification.
• Detailed knowledge of high-voltage transmission infrastructure (110/220/400 kV), electrical safety rules and associated technologies.

We value potential as much as experience. If you believe you can succeed in this role, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every requirement.

We're dedicated to diversity and inclusion at EirGrid. We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and the importance of a supportive culture for all our people to achieve their potential. Our diversity and inclusion networks have been designed to create an inclusive culture that enables our people to feel a sense of belonging at work.

As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.