Location: East Midlands Gateway
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £37,000.00
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Health & Safety Advisor to join our team and act as the lead Health & Safety representative on site. This role requires a confident professional who can operate autonomously, influence stakeholders at all levels, and drive a positive safety culture across a fast-paced warehousing and logistics environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring legal compliance, supporting operational excellence, and leading continuous improvement initiatives to maintain the highest standards of health, safety, and wellbeing.
Your Tasks
- Act as the primary Health & Safety representative on site, managing priorities effectively with minimal supervision and ensuring a proactive, visible safety presence.
- Support and guide the organisation to meet all Health & Safety legal obligations, regulatory requirements, audit standards, and company policies.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with operational teams and stakeholders to influence behaviours, encourage engagement, and embed a safety‑first mindset.
- Identify and address unsafe acts or conditions, supporting managers in implementing effective corrective and preventative actions.
- Lead initiatives to improve safety performance across warehouse, logistics, and operational environments.
- Create, review, and update Health & Safety policies, procedures, risk assessments, and safe systems of work to ensure compliance with legislation and best practice.
- Carry out regular audits, inspections, and workplace safety reviews, including MHE operations, loading bays and yard activities, pedestrian segregation, manual handling, operations storage systems, automated processes (where applicable).
- Produce and maintain risk assessments, safe systems of work, safety audits, and inspections to identify hazards and implement mitigation strategies.
- Investigate accidents, incidents, hazards, and near misses, conducting root cause analysis and ensuring corrective and preventative actions are completed and documented.
- Track and report on Health & Safety KPIs, trends, audit findings, and action plans to drive accountability and improvement.
- Provide expert guidance on compliance, risk reduction, behavioural safety, and safety management systems.
- Provide Health & Safety training and awareness programmes, including inductions, manual handling, DSE assessments, toolbox talks, site safety briefings.
- Facilitate safety meetings, briefings, and engagement activities to keep the workforce informed and involved in safety matters.
- Support IOSH‑qualified managers and operational leaders in understanding safety requirements, documentation, and best practices.
- Act as the primary contact for Health & Safety inspections, audits, customers, insurers, and regulatory bodies.
- Support contractor management processes, including RAMS reviews, compliance checks, and permit‑to‑work controls.
- Ensure all visitor and contractor activities are carried out safely and in line with site procedures.
- Assist with fire safety compliance, evacuation procedures, drills, first aid coordination, and business continuity planning.
- Support and complement the Fire Responsible Person to ensure full compliance with fire safety legislation and the RFFO.
- Act as system administrator for the organisation’s Health & Safety management system, ensuring accurate records, actions, and documentation.
- Adhere to all company policies including Health & Safety, Information Security, Site Security, and GDPR.
Your Profile
Someone who thrives on working in a fast‑paced environment and takes a hands‑on approach to their workload.
You’ll have:
- NEBOSH general certification or equivalent
- Full and valid driving licence
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with acute attention to detail
- Someone who has experience working in a warehouse environment would be advantageous but not essential.
Desirable, but not essential
- NEBOSH Environmental Management or equivalent
- NEBOSH Certificate in Fire safety or equivalent
- Manual handling assessor
- DSE Assessor
We Offer
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days
- Pension contribution
- A life assurance policy that pays out 4 × Salary
- Employee Assistance Programme that provides you with confidential support, information, and advice to help you.
- Employee Discount Scheme through Benefit Hub
- Free car parking
