Health and Safety Officer

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year

*** HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICER ***

£40,000 – £45,000 + Healthcare, 8% Pension, Bonus and Holidays

Shepshed location

Calling all Health and Safety professionals!

Are you an experienced Health and Safety professional, looking for a new challenge in your career?

Would you like to work for a World leading, multi billion pound business?

If your answer to these questions is yes, then please keep reading. 

We are working with a World renowned manufacturer of chemical products who service all kinds of industries including pharmaceutical and life science. 

Their sites are high spec and high tech, and to maintain the platinum standards they set themselves all year round, they need thorough and diligent professionals in every department.

The Health and Safety officer role is a key one which helps to set the standard across site for all members of staff. 

Responsibilities of the job include supporting and mentoring:

• Training and presenting general/ technical EHS, wellbeing, behaviours, fire and environmental training.
• The project safety file assuring documents including compliance their completion and monitoring and reporting.
• Be responsible for support to the wider teams in relation to compliance and the management of actions open on safety cloud.
• Own the outputs from safety systems are dealt with to assure completion in a relevant time period.
• Assure contractors are trained and familiar with this system when time permits.
• Assure accurate recording of EHS stats for internal and external reporting, joining the EHS committee and acting as the EHS/Project representative where required.
• Build stronger personal working relationships to promote the adoption and integration of new EHS systems and to provide timely EHS support on issues.
• Be responsible for communicating with the wider teams as necessary in managing daily tasks and operational duties as they arise.
• Determining ways of reducing risks through procedural and physical controls.
• Maintaining internal health and safety and environmental operational and advise on safe operating strategies.
• Writing reports, bulletins and newsletters as appropriate.
• Making presentations and deliver training as necessary
• Keeping up to date and ensuring compliance with current health and safety legislation

Skills

You will need to demonstrate evidence of the following:

• A passion to get involved at the grass roots level and ensure EHS support is always available to drive improvement within the culture around the wider teams.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills to explain health and safety processes to a range of people and to give presentations to groups.
• Negotiating skills to convince managers of the need to implement and maintain safety standards that may compromise speed or efficiency in the organisation.
• Patience and diplomacy because the profession requires a collaborative approach.
• The ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately.
• An investigative mind.
• IT skills and the ability to work within a quality process and attention to detail.
• Producing procedures and material clearly and concisely, making sure it can be easily understood and followed.
• Testing the written material with users.

As you can see this role requires someone with the drive and determination to push standards higher and higher every day across site. 

To be considered for this role you must be an experienced Health and Safety professional with experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably chemicals. 

You must have a relevant qualification / certification such as NEBOSH or IOSH. 

Candidates with experience / knowledge of COMAH, HAZOP or HAZID will be preferred and prioritised in the selection process. 

If you have read this advert and feel that you match up to what is required for this incredible role, we would love to hear from you.

please apply more!