Occupational Therapist

3 weeks ago


Greater Derby Area, United Kingdom AMS Full time

Occupational Hygiene SME

Full time

Flexible location; can be located near any UK Rolls-Royce production facility


Why Rolls-Royce?


A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Occupational Health team as an Occupational Hygiene Subject Matter Expert (SME).


You will be responsible for providing functional leadership and expert advice on occupational hygiene and health risk management to support the HSE strategy (Journey to Zero Harm). This is through provision of specialist advice, assessment, training and intervention activities to global audiences across the organization. You will also be responsible for establishing/maintaining a network of SME champions (fellow SME’s, Accountable / Responsible persons) supported by regular communications and continuous support.


Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.


Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.


What you will be doing:


Leadership & culture

  • Support the organisation in maximising employee health and productivity through the management of occupational exposures and prevention of occupational ill health.
  • Provide input into HSE strategic deliverables.
  • Participate in global projects in support of HSE strategic deliverables.
  • Provide expert support and input to leadership engagement activities.


Risk Management

  • Deliver / facilitate advanced health risk assessment.
  • Develop and support the implementation of health risk management initiatives and improvement programmes aimed at reducing risk to health.
  • Work with the project and design community to promote health through design by eliminating health risks at the design stage.
  • Provide input to the development of the Group-wide risk profile/registers for workplace and worker Health.
  • Provide advice to the development of Group wide training.
  • Develop and maintain occupational health risk assessment tools and resources.
  • Remain abreast of emerging occupational health risks which may impact employees and ensure these are reflected in the risk profile.


Standards and Compliance

  • Support the development, implementation and maintenance of global policies, procedures and standards relating to occupational health and hygiene.
  • Provide oversight, partnering and quality assurance on external hygiene partners.
  • Maintain a review of any regulatory or professional changes which may impact the HSE standards and support updating of standards and any associated improvement programmes required as a result.


Performance Reporting

  • Input into the design and reporting of leading and lagging indicators of health risk, incidents and improvement activity.
  • Develop the Health Risk Reduction Metric; the internal health risk management KPI.
  • Prepare periodic analysis of data to provide input into Board and other reports.
  • Provide quality assurance/ quality control for data in hygiene related software and provide feedback to end user.


Stakeholder Engagement

  • Identify and pursue opportunities to engage and communicate with leadership, employees and their representatives to promote the benefits of health risk management and its alignment to the Journey to Zero Harm.
  • Responsible for maintaining and developing the existing occupational hygiene communities of practice.
  • Represent the organisation on occupational hygiene related matters with national and international regulators, professional bodies, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.


Right Capability

  • Undertake coaching, instruction and training activities to enhance global HSE capability in occupational hygiene and health risk management.
  • Manage the UK outsourced occupational hygiene provision and provide guidelines for the procurement of competent occupational hygiene provision globally.
  • Deliver group wide training and communities of practice to keep organization updated on internal and external requirements and best practices.


Shared Learning

  • Through involvement with work-related illness investigation and reporting, assist the identification of reoccurring themes to facilitate shared learning and inclusion in improvement plans.
  • Apply specialist knowledge and skills to conduct analysis of exposure and illness data to draw science-based conclusions regarding illness causation.
  • Share learning for the development of Group wide training.


Who we’re looking for:


At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

  • Educated to degree level in a scientific discipline with a recognised post-graduate occupational hygiene qualification or equivalent professional qualification.
  • Certification from (or working towards) chartered membership of an international hygiene body, such as the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH) or the American Board of Industrial Hygienists (ABIH).
  • Significant experience working as an occupational hygienist. Experience of working in a manufacturing environment or similar (oil, gas, chemicals) would be advantageous.
  • Experience of working in cross functional teams.
  • Strong leadership qualities with advanced analytical, inter-personal and communication skills.
  • Coaching ability to help others achieve improvement in performance
  • Willingness to travel globally to support sites.
  • Knowledge of HSE management software such as Benchmark, Cority, Intelex, would be beneficial.
  • Familiarity with asbestos surveys, management of Hazardous Substances, Air / Fume / Odour Monitoring, Noise and Vibration Monitoring, Water Hygiene Services, Heat Stress Evaluation, Toxicology and Legionella awareness will support our health risk profile.


Join us & Make an impact


We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.


We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.


You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce



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