Health and Safety Advisor

**Company Description**
- ** Contract**: Permanent 37.5 Hours Per Week
- ** Salary**:Circa £38300 per annum
- ** Location**:Hinckley Hub (LE10 3BQ)
- ** Days of Work**:Monday to Friday
- ** Hours of Work**:6pm - 2am (flexibility required)

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible. Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

We require you to work with Network and Hub Management to ensure legal compliance with health and safety legislation. Providing health and safety advice and expertise to all business areas and teams and supporting the health and safety team in delivering critical health and safety projects and programmes.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Working with the business to promote and regulate a high standard of health and safety awareness in order to fully achieve compliance with legislation.
- Working with the business to promote a positive health and safety culture within DPD and support the strategic direction of the company.
- Supporting and advising sites in achieving compliance to health and safety legislation and effective reporting.
- Supporting sites with incident investigation and carrying out investigations of major incidents.
- Undertake frequent monitoring checks and inspections of sites as required.
- Work collaboratively to deliver progress towards Health and Safety Projects.
- Drive positive cultural change through employee consultation, engagement programs and delivery of health and safety information.
- Attendance at site and departmental Meetings as required.

**Qualifications**
- You will have a proven track record in producing high quality health and safety documentation, including Risk Assessments and Safe Systems of Work.
- You will possess excellent communication and be able to communicate to a high standard in numerous formats.
- You will be comfortable working on your own initiative with the ability to prioritise and effectively manage your time.
- Due to the size of our operation, the ability to work collaboratively and supportively within the team is critical.
- You will have strong IT skills with experience of using Microsoft packages and/or Google Suite.
- Demonstrate the DPD DNA of; Flexibility, Accountability, Respect, Honesty, Caring, Passion.

Job Specifics

To be considered for this role you must:

- Possess a full valid driving licence
- Be flexible to travel and to work a varied shift pattern to meet business requirement

**Additional Information** About our benefits**:
We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Free onsite car parking for all employees
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Vitality at Work
- Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.