At a Glance
- Tasks: Advise on health and safety, create management plans, and ensure compliance across projects.
- Company: Join STS Defence, a leader in engineering and manufacturing with a focus on safety.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities for impactful work.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and to influence safety practices in the defence sector.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in promoting a positive safety culture in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: IOSH or IIRSM qualified, NEBOSH certified, and experience in health and safety roles.
The predicted salary is between 35000 - 42000 £ per year.
We are looking to appoint a Health and Safety Advisor who possesses manufacturing experience. In this critical role, you will be responsible for advising on all aspects of H&S and be a subject matter expert for all H&S matters for the business. Driven and passionate about your profession and keen to make your mark, you will support the delivery of H&S expertise into customer projects as well as our own internal operations. We are also looking for someone who possesses a bold vision to implement new ways of working. You will be someone who is on-point with industry standards, legislation changes, and best practices and in doing so, ensure that our business, STS Defence, has a robust approach to managing and driving a positive safety-first culture.
We are very keen to hear from those who have a background in safety case planning and management, an attribute that will give you an immediate advantage in this process, especially if this has been gained in an engineering/manufacturing/defence environment.
Other aspects of the role include:
- Advise on H&S matters into all customer projects supported by STS Defence covering manufacturing and through life support
- Create Safety and Environmental Management Plans and Systems, policies and procedures
- Maintain expert awareness of all legislation, customer regulations and best practice guidance
- Produce and review safety and environmental cases for a range of systems and capabilities
- Ensure that all projects are delivered in a safe and sustainable way
- Engage with the business to ensure compliance with existing policies and processes
- Lead on all investigation activity relating to Health and Safety accidents
- Ensure the development and introduction of training programmes and materials, and communicating this to relevant stakeholders and all staff to include; driving, manual handling, first aid and fire safety
- Implement practical and effective methods, both preventative and remedial, of promoting health and safety and safe working practices across the business
- Support the Training Co-ordinator with the operational delivery of Health and Safety training to the business by identifying and closing gaps in training
- Ensure that training programmes and materials remain up to date and in line with industry best practice and align to the requirements of the business accrediting bodies
- Maintaining the occupational health and safety and environmental management systems
To succeed in this role, we are looking for the following in you:
- Qualified member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM)
- Qualified to a high standard by the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH)
- Experience in the development of Safety and Environmental Management plans and cases
- Knowledge and understanding of ISO 45001 & ISO 14001
- Experience in writing and reviewing H&S procedures
- Auditing and Inspection skills and experience
- Proven ability in incident investigation and reporting
- Microsoft Office Skills with an ability to use bespoke systems and IT packages quickly and efficiently
- Excellent communications skills with proven experience of engaging and building relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Experience in a Health and Safety role within an engineering/manufacturing environment, ideally within the defence sector - desirable
- Skills in negotiating and conflict management, with the ability to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties
- Willingness and desire to learn new skills and invest in professional development
- Ability to influence and align others towards the vision for the project
- Ability to travel to customers' sites when required
Additional Information: All candidates must be in a position to obtain UK security clearance to SC level; additional restrictions may apply on certain defence programmes.
Health & Safety Advisor in Hampshire employer: STSdefence
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