Human Factors Specialist

Job Description

Location: Horley / St Mary Cray - travel around Southern and Scotland will be required (flexible location)Salary: Personal Contract (Dependent on skills & qualifications)Reference: REQ3299Do you want to be a part of an innovative and supportive team, where there are great opportunities for career progression and developmentAs a key member of the Health & Safety team, the Human Factors Specialist will support SGN by providing expert technical leadership on human factors and developing and delivering the understanding and application of human factors principles in gas networkengineering.The role will also support other functions across the business where required.This role provides the opportunity for extensive personal and professional development.What will you be doing day to day

• Applying Human Factors methods, tools, and techniques to the business operations. This includes being able to apply human reliability methodologies to identify and assess operator action by observing, understanding and helping to improve colleagues’ performanceand safety.
• Ensuring the role leads and advises on input into our culture programme of work across the business. Assisting with the actions in the safety improvement plan by ensuring human factors is considered where applicable.
• Fostering the consistent implementation and integration of human factors principles in relation to our Operations, Major Projects, and Asset Management functions to make sure we build, operate, and maintain a safe and reliable network when designing andassessing roles and tasks.
• Working with the business to deliver improvement programs and drive continuous improvement in relation to safety by proactively leading on safety projects and campaigns, develop project plans, managing stakeholders from across the business and at all levelsto deliver against set timescales.

What you’ll needQualification in Human Factors (eg BSc, MSc, PhD) or Higher education qualification in a relevant discipline (Organisational Psychology or equivalent) with Chartered membership (or working towards membership) of CIEHF (Chartered Institute of ergonomics &Human Factors)We’re also looking for;

• Having a strong background in leading and delivering Human Factors in a safety critical, high hazard or regulated industry.
• Being able to advise of appropriate methodologies and Human Factors approaches to define and meet requirements of projects including developing solutions showing how needs will be met.
• Leading the design and development of technical training and mentoring the development of others to embed and build the Human Factors capability within SGN.
• Being able to produce technical reports for the wider business to review and action.
• Being able to contribute to the development of the wider safety community.
• Being capable of developing strong working relationships with diverse and remotely located, internal and external, stakeholders including field operatives, industry groups and HSE

If you don’t have all the qualifications, we would still love to hear from you… we provide our own specialised learning and development programs, providing access to learning tools to help you acquire the skills needed to excel in our environment.What’s in it for you

• Job security and genuine learning and development opportunities
• Holiday and sickness package
• HolidayPlus - Buy up to 10 additional days holiday, available all year round
• Retail & leisure discounts
• Cycle2work scheme
• Company pension scheme - with company contributions between 6 -12% (depending on length of service and personal % contribution)
• Gym & mobile discounts
• Virtual GP - Our GP Helpline is a virtual GP service which offers unlimited access to GP at a time which suits you

What we do…We’re on a journey to transform the future of gas and we think outside the box - futuristic technologies and robotics are leading our innovation. Keeping our customers safe and warm is what we do but beyond that, we want to make the world a better place,which is why we’re passionate about helping in our communities, reducing our carbon footprint and driving innovation in our industry.At SGN, we strive to sustain our world through managing the network that distributes natural and green gas across the south of England and Scotland. We have an important responsibility to keep the gas flowing to 5.9 million homes and businesses. Your workdirectly impacts SGNs commitments to keeping our customers’ homes and businesses safe.SGN is an Equal Opportunities EmployerFostering a diverse and inclusive culture is something we are passionate about working towards at SGN. We want our workplace to be an innovative and inclusive place to work, where every single person feels empowered to achieve professional success. We arecommitted to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status, genetic information or parental status. We base all our employmentdecisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.