Environmental Health and Safety Consultant
Location: United Kingdom : Occasional travel to client sites. You can expect to be on the road once a week
Salary: A GBP 26k : 27.5k per year + Benefits
Permanent
About us
Barbour is a trusted and comprehensive provider of regulatory information, guidance, standards and resources to support our clients wherever they are in the world. Through our knowledge of complex legislation and flexible resources, we empower our clients to simplify and manage their EHS compliance.
Its about more than just legislation. Working with Barbour, you have a partner to help put solid compliance foundations in place, tools to influence company culture, and specialist consultancy. We help you stay on top of ever:changing industry developments, ensuring your organisation keeps people safe and protects the environment.
About the role
We are looking for a passionate and self:motivated individual to join us working alongside our team of experienced environmental and health and safety consultants. Were looking for a detail:oriented professional to support our UK:wide client base in navigating their legal obligations. In this role, youll be the key point of contact for clients, scheduling remote and on:site audits to assess compliance with environmental and safety legislation. Youll identify legal non:compliance, compile comprehensive legal registers, and provide expert guidance on ISO 14001 and 45001 standards.
Youll also play a vital role in keeping clients informed about evolving EHS legislation and helping them meet their legal requirements with confidence. If you thrive in a dynamic, client:facing environment and have a keen eye for detail, wed love to hear from you
This role will provide key support to our clients and therefore you will need to be available to travel occasionally to client sites. You can expect to be on the road once a week.
What youll be getting up to
* Liaising with clients to book remote meetings or site visits
* Conduct on:site and remote audits for our UK wide client base to gather information required for their legal registers
* Identify legal non:compliance during site audits and questionnaires
* Create environment and safety legal registers in Word format to assist clients in complying with ISO 14001 and 45001 standard requirements
* Create and update an aspects and impacts register
* Assist clients in understanding and complying with their legal requirements in relation to environmental and safety law
* Answer client queries in regard to environment and health and safety legislation
* To keep on top of and understand legislation changes
* Carry out regular updates on legal register documents and inform clients on changes in EHS legislation
* Keep the CMS and client portal accurate and up:to:date
* Keep all paperwork and weekly reports correct and submitted on time
What were looking for
The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate behaviours that reflect our core values. Our colleagues are approachable and optimistic, focussing on solutions. We listen to understand client needs, delivering expert guidance and high:quality service. We foster collaboration by sharing knowledge openly and supporting others to thrive by sharing well:considered feedback. We continuously strive for improvement by being open to challenge, being curious and focussing on innovation.
In order to excel in this role,you need...
* Experience and understanding of environmental health and safety, either through completing a degree, other professional qualifications such as PIEMA or NEBOSH or having worked in an Environmental or Health and Safety role
* A passion for environmental and health and safety laws :youll need to understand UK and EU legal systems and be able to interpret and translate complex legislation into plain English
* Strong analytical and research skills : to interpret client needs and deliver tailored solutions
* Exceptional w