JOB DESCRIPTION Join our team as a QHSE Advisor for Dangerous Goods! Ensure compliance, support safety initiatives, and drive excellence across all Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment pillars. Be the key to our customer-centric success
Your Role
Join our customer-centric team as a pivotal player in ensuring safety and compliance. Your main role will be to assist the Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor in implementing and maintaining Dangerous Goods policies, ensuring we meet all legal and contractual requirements. Additionally, you'll support the Quality Safety Health Environment (QSHE) team in meeting their goals across all areas as needed
Your Responsibilities
1. Supporting the main site in Telford, with the flexibility to travel to other key sites as and when required.
2. Toprovide specialist advice to management and operations on compliancewith legislation, policy and contractual requirements affecting the storage andtransport of hazardous substances, articles, and radiological protection
3. Complete Internal Audit Process which satisfies the requirements of the Dangerous Goods Requirements and KN Global process
4. Provide on-going support to the operational team a to improve the standards of the Dangerous Goods and Radiation regulations and achieve defined levels of compliance.
5. Support the wider QSHE Team in ensuring adherence to Legislation, Policy and Contractual requirements to QSHE policies and process through the audit and QSHE tour processes.
6. Support the QSHE communications process by being actively involved in the development and delivery of QSHE specific communications.
7. Report performance against targets to the QSHE Management Team
Your Skills and Experiences
8. Essential– Already hold (Note: Willing to consider applicants without but requiredwithin 1st 3 months)
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Air (IATA)
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR)
Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Sea (IMDG)
IOSH Managing Safety
9. Audit Experience (ISO Standards 9001; 14001 & 45001 preferable). Willing to qualify as Lead Auditor
10. Desirable / Willing to train ADR 1.8.3 DGSA Certificate, RID 1.8.3 DGSA Certificate, Dangerous Goods Storage and Segregation, Carriage of Lithium Batteries by Air, Road & Sea, Radiation Safety Officer, Class 7 Radioactive Excepted Packages Consignor Awareness
11. Good communication and presentation skills
12. Knowledge of word and Excel, Numerate / data rational
13. Analytical / Report writing / Forward planning skills
Please be aware that by applying for thisrole, you are agreeing to participate in the employment screeningprocess. This process will include criminal record checking and identityvalidation. This means that KN will ask successful applicants to providecertain information and documentation to enable these checks to be conducted.
Any appointment will then be strictlyconditional upon, and subject to, the receipt of satisfactory results of thesechecks
Good Reasons to Join
If you would like to become a valued member of our team, we will make sure that you’re rewarded for your commitment and expertise. You can join the contributory Kuehne+Nagel pension plan and enjoy our Route 2 Rewards scheme which offers everything from discounts, benefit information, recognition and its own wellbeing centre. We care for our colleagues (and their immediate family) with our employee assistance programme providing access to 24/7 GP, legal and financial advice along with mental health counselling. All of this to help you live a happier and healthier life As proud holders of the Gold Covenant, we are a forces-friendly employer who recognise the skills, expertise and value service leavers bring to our organisation.