SHE Advisor

Victrex is seeking an experienced and proactive SHE Advisor to join our dynamic team. As a SHE Advisor, you will play a fundamental role in implementing our health, safety, and environmental (HSE) strategies across the company. This position requires someone who can provide expert advice, support on SHE matters, and lead by example to promote a positive health and safety culture.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide site level SHE support services (professional knowledge, guidance, advice and expertise) for SHE related matters, to department/area managers, supervisors and front-line employees, working collaboratively to drive the safety culture.  
• Attend facility daily meetings (and others as may be appropriate) to promote SHE matters and ensure there is visible SHE presence by carrying out engagement tours across the site.
• Act as influential leader to embed the intervention culture of the plant and coach peers on value added safety interventions.
• Establish a SHE self-assessment audit program, ensuring they are completed on time by all assigned persons.
• Support site safety reviews, inspections, audits and accident and incident investigations (where specialist SHE skills are required).
• Develop and implement SHE programs, systems and procedures in order to secure compliance with Victrex SHE standards and requirements, and both current and impending legislation.
• Support the site to be able to carry out their own risk assessments and draft procedures by providing advice and guidance through coaching and mentoring methods.  
• Drive SHE improvement through the development and regular review of a SHE improvement plans. 
• Carry out trend analysis on SHE data submitted and establish focused actions to drive improvement in those areas identified.
• Carry out regular reviews on SHE action management to ensure action closure is timely, escalating any overdues and issues to the Plant Manager. 
• To support the identification, development and delivery of EHS training needs.
• Identify PPE requirements and establish an approved list of PPE to reduce and mitigate risks associated with the facility .
• Engagement with stakeholders and regulatory authorities (for example HSE, EA, Emergency services).
• Carry out all regulatory reporting requirements for the site of an EHS nature, ensuring compliance to any reporting conditions of permits.
• Responsible for ensuring the site has assessed and made arrangements for dealing with any type of emergency scenario that may be applicable to the facility. 

Skills and Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has strong experience in SHE within high hazardous environment/industries. With an excellent understanding of safety regulations and legislation. You must have a proven track record of successfully identifying and working within KPI's, experience and knowledge of coordinating independent investigations and be a subject matter expert in risk assessment methodologies. 

You will have good communication skills both written, verbal and presentation, with an ability to influence others on driving a SHE culture and to work autonomously to drive and deliver business outcomes. Good coaching and mentoring skills to advise and empower stakeholders is crucial for this role. 

Our successful candidate will have a diploma level qualification in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent and also hold a NEBOSH Environmental qualification or equivalent. 

NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE.

We are not accepting candidates via recruitment agencies or third parties at this time.

About Victrex

Victrex is an innovative world leader in high-performance PEEK (Poly Ether Ether Ketone) and PAEK (Poly Aryl Ether Ketone) polymer solutions focusing on the strategic markets of automotive, aerospace, energy and industrial, electronics and medical. Every day, millions of people use products and applications containing our materials – from smartphones, aeroplanes and cars to energy operations and medical devices.

With over 40 years‘ experience, we are developing world leading solutions with PEEK and PAEK-based polymers and selected semi-finished and finished parts which enable environmental and societal benefit for our customers and our markets and drive value for our shareholders

Vision and culture

At Victrex we have a clear purpose: to bring transformational and sustainable solutions which address world material challenges every day.

This underpins our core values; passion, innovation and performance which are at the heart of our business.

Our culture is shaped by how we work together, driving for results with a focus on customers, continuous improvement and doing the right thing. Our values, passion, innovation, and performance are at the heart of our business and we value and recognise how every employee plays an important role in enabling us to deliver our growth strategy.

Sustainability is core to our strategy. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint while supporting society through our sustainable products and making a positive impact on our local communities. We have recently become winners of the prestigious Ecovadis Silver Award, which is a universal acknowledgement of our sustainability rating as being in the top 5% of over 75,000 companies. We are also proud to be recognised as a ‘Disability Confident’ employer.

Our aim is to provide the support of accessibility and community within Victrex for everyone. So, if you need any help, advice or just want a confidential chat regarding any Diversity, Equity or Inclusion matters even before you apply to Victrex, then here is what you need to know:

The enabling support that Victrex prides itself on giving, starts from when anyone applies or wants to apply to join our team.

We are always here to help provide any ‘reasonable adjustments’ you may need during your application process. So please contact us to discuss your specific requirements in more depth.

We even have a dedicated email that anyone can use to reach out for help, advice, and a confidential chat......whatever you need to know, and to help ensure an equitable solution, that’s right for you, right from the start

That email is: enablerecruitment@victrex.com

Victrex values diversity and encourages applications from all
sections of the community.

Please talk to us about flexible working.