Site Health and Safety Advisor in Rushden

Job Summary

To successfully work with the Group H&S function to deliver and maintain a health and safety programme on site ensuring best practice, compliance with Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and approved codes of practice; to engage with and work productively with leadership roles across all aspects of the business to embed and drive a positive safety culture across the organisation, establish and maintain safe systems of work and a safe environment for all employees and visitors; to deliver associated underpinning health and safety management action plans and operational programmes ensuring risk management and reduction across the organisation.

Responsibilities

The Site Health and Safety Advisor will be responsible for

• Act as a subject matter expert to support the site on H&S topics.
• Support department managers to complete accident investigations within a 24hrs time frame.
• Challenge bad practice and implement corrective control measures with department leaders.
• Share and discuss H&S incidents and alerts from the group with local teams and management.
• Implement H&S improvement initiatives and practices to drive and improve H&S cultures.
• Develop, implement, and monitor H&S improvement plans.
• Support areas to ensure that H&S ownership remains with departments.
• You will lead or co-ordinate the development of H&S procedures and instructions to support the H&S management system.
• Support the Operations Team when internal & external agencies come to site e. g. Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Humberside Fire and Rescue, etc.
• Support and audit the Rix Group standards proposing a corrective action plan to ensure audit scores are compliant maintaining 'Green' on all.
• Ensure that all internal & group standards are applied and regularly reviewed for compliance
• Working with the sites Operational and Facilities Teams to ensure the business has a site wide approach to safety and environmental issues and compliance requirements are being controlled, documented and maintained in accordance with regulations and guidelines.
• Ensure that serious issues and recommendations are escalated.
• Assist Group with the development of a Health, Safety, Environment strategy with a defined roadmap to achieve future state performance over a 3–5-year horizon, working and engaging with all business functions to align content, approaches and timelines.
• Work with Group to review and develop all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental policies and activity, and ensure that it is implemented consistently across the organisation, advising managers on how to develop and implement new policy and procedure documents as required.
• Work proactively with managers and other key staff to establish and maintain a programme of continuous improvement in the management of health, safety and wellbeing within their areas of responsibility, ensuring all training needs for employees in relation to Health, Safety and Environment issues, risks and preventative actions are met and training records are maintained.
• Support the Group H & S Team in defining and maintaining effective Health, Safety and Environment communications to the business, including frequent “toolbox talks” on a range of topics, visual management of Health, Safety and Environment performance, issues and actions, and appropriate use of resources to create focus and support behaviour change.
• Ensure that there are adequate numbers of trained fire marshals and first aiders throughout the business.
• Maintain own CPD and develop the skill set of the HS&E Administrator.

Experience

The experience we're looking for

• Experience of working in a H&S role within an industrial setting
• Strong knowledge and experience of H&S processes and H&S Management Systems
• NEBOSH general certificate
• Computer literate and interested in the use and application of technology
• Previous involvement in implementing strong H&S culture - desirable
• Previous experience in developing and delivering H&S projects - desirable
• Strong H&S technical knowledge, specifically emergency preparedness, PTW, contractor management.
• Working knowledge of H&S policies
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001/14001/45001/ 50001 - desirable.
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Ensure services are delivered in accordance with the company equality and diversity policy.
• KEY RELATIONSHIPS (INTERNAL)
• KEY RELATIONSHIPS (EXTERNAL)
• Group Health & Safety Manager
• Group Health & Safety Advisors
• HS&E Administrator
• Facilities Manager
• Operations Director
• Production Director
• All Heads of Department
• Assistant Production Managers
• Team Leaders
• Health, Safety and Environment Committee
• Health and Safety Executive
• Environment Agency
• Insurers
• Sub-contractors

Person Specification

Requirement

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

• Educated to A’ level standard or relevant work experience
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Full clean valid UK driving licence.

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant relevant experience of leading Health, Safety and Environment teams, including people management
• Good understanding and working knowledge of Health, Safety and Environment legal requirements
• Experience or clear knowledge and understanding of undertaking health, safety & environment audits, inspections or reviews
• Evidence of promoting a positive Health, Safety and Environment culture and resulting improved performance
• Evidence outlining experience in developing effective solutions to resolve complex Health, Safety and Environment issues
• Evidence of developing and maintaining procedures and systems for investigating, reporting and analysing risks, accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences and other safety/environment matters and giving advice on preventative and remedial actions where appropriate to eliminate/minimise safety hazards.
• Experience of effectively managing Health, Safety and Environment within a manufacturing environment
• COSHH understanding and experience
• Experience of delivering health, safety and environment training courses

Skills, Competencies and Abilities

• Ability to identify risks and implement control strategies
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex information up to senior management / board level
• Able to manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines to the satisfaction of all parties
• Understanding internal and external environments and their impact on the work of the Health, Safety & Environment function
• Evidence of effective analytical root cause problem solving and decision-making abilities under pressure
• Ability to stay current with Health, Safety and Environment knowledge and legal requirements and changes and communicate them effectively to management
• Understand the need for “attention to detail” within a Health, Safety and Environment function
• The ability to undertake site inspections and audits etc, making sound business recommendations for improvements as necessary
• An understanding of Fire risk and Legislation
• Willingness to adopt a flexible approach to meet the requirements of the job
• Self-disciplined and ability to manage own time, to respond to changing priorities and workload to achieve targets
• Willingness to work under own initiative
• Able to maintain positive working relationships by effectively communicating with internal and external departments
• Engagement with workplace wellbeing initiatives and understanding of how they add value to an organisation
• Personal Attributes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent standards of numeracy and literacy
• Ability and willingness to work autonomously and flexibly, responding to business needs and adapting to new methods and tasks
• A confident and effective root cause problem solver and decision maker
• Able to represent the Company positively, professionally and with credibility
• Positively assertive
• Excellent Health, Safety and Environment knowledge
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Good organisation skills
• Be prepared to travel off site to conduct site work risk assessments
• Training development and delivery skills
• Values
• Strong customer focus
• Passionate and enthusiastic
• Take responsibility and ownership
• Deliver on commitments and accountabilities
• Drive own personal development
• Striving to be the best
• Thinking and working smartly
• Embrace inclusivity and diversity of others

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure this job description provides a comprehensive overview of the responsibilities of this role, all employees may be required to undertake other reasonable tasks as requested from time to time.

Individual objectives will be agreed in addition to these responsibilities.