Health & Safety Administrator Rochdale, England
Job description
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omni-channel retailer in the sports, fashion, and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Role Overview
To provide administration support to the Health and Safety Team by maintaining a range of databases and computer systems to assist in ensuring safety compliance. IOSH Managing Safely training and mentoring will be provided with the potential for the role to develop and progress.
Key Duties/Responsibilities:
- Keep ongoing inventory of all hazardous substances used on site and stored on site.
- Obtain latest versions of the Safety Data Sheets
- Monitor H&S Kingsway email and book all contractors in for inductions.
- Keep a log of contractor inductions and update the contractor log daily.
- Review fire marshal handovers and track actions.
- Send out DSE assessment forms to all VDU users and keep a log of returned forms.
- Book in all inductions for new colleagues and a log of all these inductions will be kept within the department.
- Analysis of incident data to identify trends and prioritising areas of focus.
- Maintain a table of audit scores for each topic within the Safety Management System.
- Take minutes of meetings
- Data analysis
- Produce statistics for Operations along with a monthly summary report and a detailed report for Health and Safety Committee meetings.
- Undertake Administrator role for the accident reporting database.
- Run daily reports from the accident reporting database and provide to Operations.
- Perform any ad hoc duties that the Health and Safety Manager might reasonably request
Skills & Experience
- The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate all of the key elements identified above together with:
- An administrative background, preferably within a Health & Safety but not essential
- Exceptional client focus, communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient use of all Microsoft applications, particularly Excel.
- Excellent attention to detail often working to challenging deadlines.
- First-class organisational skills with a focus on task prioritisation.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation
- Pension Scheme
- Health plans – Depending on level of role
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion
Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
Thank you again for your time.
