Health and Safety Coordinator

**Location: Rugby Head Office**

**Your new Company**:
Häfele is an internationally trusted name supplying furniture fittings, ironmongery and hardware to the trade. We are recognised for our extensive range and quality of product as well as our expertise in the industry and excellent customer service. Häfele UK provides comprehensive customer support through our best-in-class sales, distribution and support teams.

**Your new role**:
We are recruiting for an experienced Health and Safety professional to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis. This role will support the Health and Safety Manager by coordinating and advising the business on all aspects of Health and Safety, monitoring standards, processes, communications and training to ensure all responsibilities associated with Health and Safety in the business are adhered to.

You will be a people person and enjoy communicating with lots of different people, representing the Health and Safety department across warehouse, office and external (road) personnel. You will be approachable, adaptable, knowledgeable and professional and above all, a team player.

You will have day to day responsibilities to include:

- Carrying out workplace, equipment and employee risk assessments
- Organising and conducting inductions and other internal H&S training
- Supporting in contractor management
- Investigating accidents, incidents and near misses and identifying immediate and root causes and corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.

You will also have some longer-term projects and areas of responsibility to include:

- Coordination of H&S improvement projects
- Fire safety e.g., risk assessment, evacuation drills, equipment servicing contracts etc.
- CoSHH safety e.g., risk assessment for all chemicals and substances used on site, spill containment team training and drills etc.
- Working at height safety e.g., coordinating escape from height and rescue from height training and drills, maintaining equipment asset register etc.

**What you’ll need to succeed**:

- 1 - 2 years in a Health and Safety role
- Minimum IOSH Managing Safely qualification
- Advantageous - NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) or willing to work towards
- Legal awareness of relevant H&S legislation or any other relevant legislation
- Knowledge and experience of conducting risk assessments
- Experience of managing contractor safety
- Desirable knowledge of ISO 45001 or equivalent management systems

**What you’ll get in return**:

- Competitive salary
- Annual Bonus
- Benefits including:

- Holiday of 23 days’ basic + 8 bank holidays in a complete year, increasing to 28 days basic with our length of service programme
- Healthcare - Westfield Health Cashplan scheme, access to money back on dental, optical, consultation, therapy treatments and wellbeing treatments, hospital treatment insurance, Employee Assistance Programme and Life Insurance
- Discounts: Huge range of shopping and activity discounts available through Westfield Rewards
- Pension Scheme
- Life Insurance
- Stock Discounts
- Learning and Development opportunities

This role will suit someone who is currently in a Health and Safety position, perhaps as an administrator, looking to develop a career in Health and Safety. You will already have some great experience that you can bring with them, but will be willing to continuously develop your skills and experience in a professional team within an ambitious and growing Company.

We are recruiting for a permanent, full-time role, hours of work are 8:45am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday. A job profile is available on request. Please send your current total remuneration package, CV and covering letter to the Human Resource Department or by the close date. We are committed to equal opportunities.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£28,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus

COVID-19 considerations:
Face coverings on site, temperature check at entrance, social distancing, one-way systems, sanitising stations

**Experience**:

- Health and Safety: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Rugby CV21 1RD

Reference ID: Hs001