Details:
- Salary: £35,714 - 42,016 - Annum
- Location: Nottingham
- Date: 3 weeks ago
Description:
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Health & Safety Advisor
Salary – £35,714 to £42,016 per annum (plus benefits)
Hours – 37.5 hours per week, 08:30am to 17:00pm
Location Postcode – NG2 3JH
As a Health & Safety Advisor at FCC Environment, you will advise the Managers and Supervisors on all safety, health and welfare matters to ensure the Company complies with its statutory obligations, ensuring a safe working environment and maintaining the wellbeing of staff, contractors and visitors.
This vacancy is for a full-time position, working 5 days per week, however, we will consider requests for job shares to suit your lifestyle (working full days).
Our promise to you
- Competitive salary
- 25 days’ annual leave (full-time working) plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme
- Life insurance
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- On the job training and progression
- Recognition scheme
- Refer a friend
- Flexible benefits including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership, holiday purchase and many more.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service via our Wellbeing Platform.
What will you be doing?
- To be a focal point for Health and Safety best practice for the group and across other group functions where required, providing advice, guidance, assistance, support and making recommendations to Area, Contract & Operational Managers to ensure a process of continual improvement.
- Ensuring Health and Safety compliance/standards are raised and maintained at high levels in accordance with the Group Policies & Procedures and across other Group Functions where required.
- Monitor performance against agreed targets and objectives.
- Develop where required local initiatives to achieve and maintain these targets and objectives.
- Participate and lead where required in the development of a high-performing and strong health and safety culture ensuring legal compliance across the Group and across other Group Functions where required.
- Assist and support the development and implementation of a Health & Safety Plan focusing on continuous risk & accident reduction in conjunction with the Area Managers, Operational Managers, Supervisors, Safety Representatives and Employees in response to statistical trends.
- Provide Health and Safety advice, guidance, support assistance and training to Operational Managers, Supervisors, Safety Representatives and Employees.
- Carry out, in conjunction with Area Manager & Operational Managers, Supervisors, Safety Representatives and Employees, planned Health and Safety inspections/sampling of premises, work activities, and processes to ensure that the development of a high-performing and strong health and safety culture ensuring legal compliance is achieved and maintained and raised where required.
- Participate in a program of active monitoring of tasks/behaviour across all of the Group and other Group Functions where required.
- Carry out staff Health and Safety training within the Group and across other Group Functions where required.
- Actively participate within the Group Safety Health Environment and Quality Managers Working Groups, and to keep under review Health and Safety Policies and Procedures within the Group and across other Group Functions where required.
- Participate in procedural reviews and make recommendations for changes in the light of accident trends, legal requirements or changes in working practices.
- Liaise as required with external regulatory authorities including the Health and Safety Executive, Fire Service, Police and any other regulatory/professional body in relation to workplace health & safety.
- Prohibit any works where you feel there is a risk of serious or imminent personal injury or where the continuation of the activity/process would result in a clear serious breach of statutory legislation.
- Carry out such other duties as may be required by the Head of SHEQ or a Health & Safety Manager commensurate with the knowledge and skills of the post holder.
What are we looking for?
- Previous experience in a similar role
About Us
We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.
We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 2,400 people.
The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. We need people who are up for the challenge to help us tackle climate change. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.
FCC Environment are equal opportunities employers, we value diversity, and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.
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