Senior Health & Safety Advisor

HornerSalus Ltd has a new position available for a Senior Safety Advisor to join our leading event and fire safety organisation in Victoria, London. The role requires an individual with varied event experience, a proactive approach to assisting our team and our clients with events and projects, sustained focus, and a great team-work ethic. HornerSalus is a specialist event safety consultancy who provide expert advice and services to the event, design, fashion, hospitality, film, and creative industries. Based in Victoria you can expect to be working with a very friendly and supportive team along with exposure to a wide variety of exciting projects here in London, across the UK, and overseas with many of our projects spanning Europe and the U.S. Add to this mix a fantastic selection of award winning clients, whom we help navigate complex safety considerations and deliver brave creative concepts. Heres a snapshot of some of the projects we worked across in May and June of this year. Events during this period saw us working across a variety of London locations and further afield including: Goodwood: Festival of Speed (8 events), Birmingham: NEC event, Cornwall: product launch, Silverstone: F1, Florence: private wedding, Miami: fashion show & after party, L.A: party, Cannes: Lions (16 events), and Peru: private event. In total, we provided consultancy, support, site safety and specialist fire safety services to 58 live projects over a six-week period.

The Deal:

• Full time permanent position (upon successful completion of a probationary period)
• A competitive salary for the right candidate; Package up to £55k, depending on experience
• Overtime earnings for site work at competitive rates
• Pension plan
• Performance based annual bonus scheme
• 22 days bank holidays
• additional rota system time off at Christmas (circa 3 days)
• Additional holiday entitlement for length of service (Up to 29 days)
• Healthcare services
• Opportunity for progression readily available within the company
• Opportunities for career advancement and further training

Role:

• Assisting in, composing, and implementing solutions to H&S challenges for live events and in the workplace
• Conducting feasibility reports, capacity studies, audits, on-site inspections, and general reporting
• Liaison with clients, contractors, suppliers, and venues to ensure management and implementation of safety procedures
• Production of event safety plans, risk assessments, emergency procedures, fire safety plans, crisis planning and crowd management plans
• Production of fire risk assessments
• Working at live events as a safety advisor
• Attendance at client and venue meetings, event inspections, SAG meetings, table top sessions

The Must Haves:

• NEBOSH General Certificate L3 or NCRQ Certificate in Applied Health and Safety, as a minimum
• Excellent understanding of risk assessments, event safety plans and fire safety
• 3 years experience in a similar safety role
• Very good communicator with strong interpersonal skills and attention to detail
• Very good written and spoken English language
• Fire Safety qualification at L3 / L4
• Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise effectively
• IT literacy and ability to present clearly and confidently to management
• A conscientious and rule-bound individual with a strong sense of diplomacy
• An excellent head for organisation and problem solving
• An ability to work with sustained focus
• Ability to treat high level information with the strictest of confidence at all times
• Desired: L5 or 6 qualification in Health, Safety or Fire; (or working towards this)
• Applied knowledge of live events, venues and contractors
• Tech IOSH Accreditation, working towards CMIOSH
• Mac computer and software knowledge

If you feel that you are a good fit for the role based upon this criteria No recruitment agencies thank you. UK residents only.