HSE Advisor in Newtownabbey

Location: C D E Global, 370 Doagh Road

At CDE, health, safety and wellbeing are fundamental to our success. This role plays a key part in promoting a positive and proactive safety culture across our manufacturing, assembly and global site operations, ensuring that safe working remains a shared priority throughout the organisation. The successful candidate will champion employee engagement and empowerment, embed best practice and foster a culture where individuals take ownership of their own safety and the safety of those around them.

Working in partnership with operational teams, the role will contribute to the ongoing enhancement of CDE's Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) management systems, driving compliance, operational excellence and continuous improvement across all business activities. Sustainability is also a key focus at CDE, and this role will support our commitment to responsible environmental management by promoting sustainable practices and contributing to the achievement of our environmental objectives. Reporting directly to the HSE Manager, this position will be primarily based at the Monkstown campus. The role requires a willingness to travel internationally to support CDE operations and project sites globally.

Responsibilities

• Support proactive HSE culture development.
• Act as a visible HSE champion and coach under the direction of the HSE Manager.
• Promote a ‘safety first’ mindset by modelling behaviours, facilitating open dialogue, recognising positive interventions and helping teams take genuine ownership of HSE outcomes.
• Support the HSE Team in owning and continuously improving CDE’s HSE management system across manufacturing, assembly and installation activities.
• Help ensure the system remains practical, risk-based, aligned with ISO standards and actively used by operational teams.
• Assist in proactive risk identification and control across manufacturing, assembly and installation environments.
• Support the development and review of risk assessments, method statements, construction phase plans and HSE files.
• Help drive the near-miss, hazard and positive observation reporting process through monitoring and administration of our custom-built safety reporting tool.
• Provide practical advice and support to manufacturing, assembly and installation teams.
• Regularly spend time in our Monkstown and Cookstown facilities, alongside project sites to observe work, coach supervisors and teams and verify that controls are effective.
• Plan and conduct risk-based HSE audits and inspections across facilities and installation projects under the guidance of the HSE Manager.
• Convert findings into clear, prioritised actions and performance insights.
• Track leading and lagging indicators and use data to highlight trends and target interventions.
• Lead or support thorough incident and near-miss investigations with a focus on systemic root causes and human factors.
• Ensure corrective and preventive actions are practical, owned and verified effective and that organisational learning is captured and shared with the HSE Manager and wider teams.
• Identify HSE competence needs and deliver or coordinate targeted training, toolbox talks and inductions.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant HSE legislation (including CDM), standards and best practice.
• Provide clear advice to managers, in support of the HSE Manager, so that CDE consistently meets and where possible, exceeds legal and customer expectations.
• Be a key member in the design and delivery of engaging HSE campaigns, communications and activities.
• Support emergency planning and response arrangements.
• Be prepared to attend and assist during HSE-related incidents outside normal hours when required, under the direction of the HSE Manager.

About The Company

WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU. We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus – our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.

We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.