Health & Safety Advisor

4 weeks ago


North West, United Kingdom Roc Recruitment Full time

Job Purpose

The SHEQ Advisor will assist the Head of SSHEQ and Head of Workshops in ensuring that workshop operations are safe, legally compliant and operating to the best environmental and quality standards applicable to our activities.

This will be accomplished by working alongside workshops staff and management, providing advice, guidance, coaching and support on their compliance with Health, Safety and Quality policies.

This role will aid in the drafting of these policies, risk assessments, procedural and operational documents to sufficiently define what we do, why we do it, and how it can be done safely and in compliance with existing and new legislation.

The SHEQ Advisor will be a key influencer in the continued development of the safety culture and compliance with our Safety Principles, ensuring continued accreditation to quality standards including ISO9001, ISO 45001, and ISO14001.

The role will aim to standardise safety and work practices across four workshops in the north of England, and be involved in monitoring and audit of some external suppliers

Key Accountabilities
- Working closely with the SSHEQ and Workshops team to provide advice, drive improvement of the safety culture and minimize safety incidents
- Prepare and review risk assessments and Safe Operating Procedures for activities carried out by workshops staff
- Auditing processes, sites and equipment to ensure compliance with regulation
- Participate in external (ISO, customer or regulatory) audits
- Participate in the preparation of Emergency Response procedures and actions for vehicles involved in safety incidents
- Assist in the preparation of and help to deliver safety training material
- Auditing of compliance with training plans, safety activity plans
- Creation of workshops KPI packs relating to safety incidents and trends
- Investigating or assisting in investigating accidents/ incidents where required, producing written reports and ensuring close out of preventive actions.
- Attend and mentor workshop safety committees

Education & Skills

Education

Qualified Motor Vehicle Technician will be seen as an advantage

Safety related qualifications such as NEBOSH or IOSH

Experience

Experience in safety advisory roles

Strong understanding, awareness and focus on health and safety

Experience in motor vehicle workshops, preferably commercial vehicles

UK driving licence is essential

Computer literate with the ability to work with spreadsheets and write procedures

A high level of understanding of Legal Compliance and standards of Roadworthiness

Experience of work with ADR (dangerous goods) tankers an advantage

Experience in tanker workshop maintenance or safety an advantage

Skills and Competencies

Appetite for a greater knowledge and understanding of how things work

Inquisitive nature to determine route cause of any failure and offer a solution

Attention to detail

Pro-active approach to continual improvement

Communicate confidently with engineering, operations, customers and suppliers

Ability to work unsupervised with a high level of self-motivation

React to different priorities at short notice

Flexibility to work outside the normal working day / week if required

Core Value Indicators

Safety First:
Consider safety before all activities.

Customer Focus:
Driving efficiencies through understanding the business and its different functions, roles and responsibilities.

Personal Responsibility:
Recognising opportunities, being proactive and seeking solutions, looking beyond the immediate situation to the broader business impact.

Teamwork

Builds effective working relationships within own workgroup, internal and external customers.

Integrity

Takes ownership and commits to the delivery of individual, team and business results.



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