Job Description
Health and Safety Advisor
Ref. 941
Department: Corporate Services and Facilities
Salary: £43,151 - £46,383
This role is available full-time for 37 hours per week or part-time for a minimum of 28 hours per week.
Flexible or compressed working patterns available Monday to Friday.
This role is based in the office.
Want to use your health and safety experience to support security?
Passionate about creating a proactive safety culture to improve the workplace?
Where you’ll use your existing knowledge and also continue to develop and learn?
You’ll work at the heart of the organisation to collaborate with delivery teams, managers and leaders, influencing and evolving safe processes and procedures to support cutting-edge technologies. Your role will be essential in leading a proactive safety culture that empowers engineers to achieve excellence without compromising on wellbeing.
Your existing knowledge of working in a manufacturing and engineering environment will enable you to work effectively across our advanced manufacturing facility and cutting-edge technology teams and capabilities, all the while working on projects critical to protecting security.
You’ll provide a partnership approach working closely with delivery teams and senior managers to ensure people are operating effectively in a safe environment. With the support of an external team to provide specialist advice and guidance, as well as high-level policy, you’ll be maintaining, developing and implementing processes and policy, allowing you to really make a difference to delivery.
You will be an integral member of the site-wide Safety Health and Wellbeing working group; managing risks and leading on project work to address opportunities and concerns. As such, you’ll effectively communicate with people at all levels of the business, providing clear messaging on Health and Safety priorities and performance.
As part of supporting continual improvement, you will work with teams addressing audit recommendations, supporting implementation of change where needed and feeding in awareness of legislative changes.
More About You
To apply for this role, you will already have:
1. Experience of using health, safety and environmental management systems.
2. An understanding of current legislation and standards e.g. UK HSE regulations, ISO 45001 standards.
3. Membership of one or more recognised Health and Safety professional bodies e.g. IIRSM, CIEH, IOSH, BOHS or other relevant professional associations.
To strengthen your application, it would be beneficial if you also have:
1. Experience of working in a manufacturing and engineering environment.
2. Knowledge of DSEAR and/or CoSHH regulations.
3. Continuous Improvement experience (5S, Kaizen, 8D etc.).
4. NEBOSH Level 3 Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health.
Your Personal Skills
You will be the type of person who:
1. Inspires a culture where safety is the ‘way we do things around here’ and where everyone looks after themselves and others.
2. Can evaluate complex information and communicate to people in a succinct and easy to understand way.
3. Can develop relationships, which will encourage and even inspire others to ‘never walk past’ an unsafe situation without intervening.
4. Is confident managing stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively.
5. Wants to make a difference. You understand the importance of what we do and take pride in doing your best.
Putting Your Skills to Use
Using your diverse range of skills across our diverse organisation, you will:
1. Monitor relevant environmental regulatory requirements and ensure compliance.
2. Manage CoSHH/Sypol systems & implement risk assessments.
3. Actively support H&S walk-arounds & audits.
4. Cohere relevant documentation and records to provide assurance on health and safety.
5. Provide coaching and support around risk and PUWER assessments, ensuring that assessments are current and effectively implemented.
6. Build relationships with key stakeholders and other business areas including the first aid cadre, Estates teams and H&S representatives across site.
7. Identify, source and record training related to health and safety.
What We Offer
Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will be doing, here’s what we can offer you:
1. 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
2. 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
3. 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
4. Paid overtime or time off in lieu. Your salary is for your contracted hours.
5. Training. Lots and lots of training.
6. Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.
7. Sports & Social Society.
8. On-site nursery (subject to availability).
9. 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
10. Free parking.
11. Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
12. Relocation Loan*.
13. Affinity Groups – whether you are disabled, and/or from a minority. We provide an inclusive environment and support for everyone.
About HMGCC
We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK’s security.
We work with the security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners, and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation.
We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.
Equal Opportunities
Inclusion really matters to us. It’s not just about numbers or visible representation.
HMGCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds, ethnicities, identities, orientations, and those with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
We’re not looking for any one type of person. We’re looking for talent from all different backgrounds to join our organisation, where we genuinely respect and value each other, as well as our similarities. It makes us even better at what we do.
We are proud to offer candidates the opportunity to apply through the Offer of Interview Scheme. The scheme ensures eligible candidates are selected for an interview as long as their application meets the minimum criteria for the role.
Apply Now
Discover more by clicking ‘apply’. Our recruitment team will process your application once the role has closed and everyone will get a response.
Please note dependent on the recruitment requirements, we withhold the right to bring forward the closing date for this role from the original closing date.
*If you are relocating to the area and renting a property then we can offer an interest-free relocation loan of up to £2,500, which is to be repaid in instalments over a period of 24 months.
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