Wellbeing and EDI Specialist

Svitzer is a leading global towage and marine services company. Founded in 1833, Svitzer builds on almost 200 years of experience, and our powerful tugboats and experts in towage work tirelessly to keep goods flowing, businesses thriving, and communities connected.

Today, Svitzer serves approximately 2,000 customers in 143 ports and 40 terminals across 37 countries through a fleet of 446 vessels, and with more than 4000 employees.

We’re looking for a Wellbeing & DEI Specialist who leads with empathy and delivers with credibility. If you want to influence culture, enable leaders, and make a tangible difference to employee wellbeing, this role gives you the platform to do it.

This opportunity is a permanent role on a part-time contract of 19 hours per week. Hours are fully flexible between 08.30 to 17.00, Monday – Friday. You can work remotely or hybrid/office based from one of our UK port locations, including Middlesbrough, Southampton, Bristol, Gravesend, Felixstowe, Liverpool, Milford Haven & Immingham.

Salary: £20,000 – £23,000 (for 19 hours per week, part-time)

Pension: up to 10% employer contributory pension

Benefits include:

• Life insurance
• Private health & dental plan
• 5% annual bonus

This role supports employees and leaders through sensitive workplace situations such as long-term sickness, disability support, wellbeing concerns, and inclusion challenges. You’ll balance compassion with consistency, ensuring fair process, legal compliance, and genuine care.

What you’ll focus on:

• Partner with leaders to manage absence and long-term sick cases effectively.
• Provide expert guidance on disability support and reasonable adjustments.
• Design and deliver annual wellbeing and DEI initiatives.
• Build inclusive practices and an environment that fosters psychological safety.
• Use data to drive measurable improvements in engagement and wellbeing.

What you bring:

• Experience in People, Wellbeing, or DEI within a complex operational environment.
• Strong understanding of absence management, disability support, and employment law related to equality and workplace adjustments.
• Proven delivery of wellbeing and inclusion initiatives.
• CIPD Level 5+ desirable or equivalent professional experience.

What sets you apart:

• You build trust quickly.
• You handle difficult conversations and situations with empathy, integrity, and fairness.
• You understand that policy matters — but people matter more.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single qualification? Research has shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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Svitzer is a people company. Offering uninterrupted marine solutions requires not only the best equipment but also the best people. Our ambition is to attract and continuously develop the industry’s best craftsmen. Both at sea and on land - worldwide, wherever our customers do business. We are driven by skilled, professional and dedicated people and we work together as one company to provide safe, reliable and efficient services to our customers. We support and develop our people’s skills and capabilities and we care for the development of both teams and individuals. To best serve our customers, we strive to ensure the right people and the best teams for the job, every time and we believe diversity is a strength.