Health, Safety and Environmental Officer Walsall, England
Job description
Full Time - 37 hours per week
Permanent
Closing Date: 27 February 2023
Initial Interview Date: 10 March 2023
We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Safety and Environmental Officer. You will be a member of our HS&E Team, being committed to contributing towards making a difference to organisational safety, environmental performance and positively interacting with our colleagues in embedding a culture that cares.
Main job responsibilities:
To monitor effective health, safety and environmental practices across the organisation, providing guidance and/or instructions where required to meet legislative and statutory requirements. You will also provide practical and proactive HS&E support and mentoring to our Operational Teams including:
- Construction, maintenance and other potentially higher risk activities;
- Working at height;
- Occupational health e.g. manual handling and COSHH;
- Ensuring that role specific competence and training programmes are suitable and sufficient;
- Controlling contractors;
- Waste management and environmental issues.
- Monitoring and undertaking audits/inspections to ensure compliance with whg policies and regulatory requirements.
- Triaging individual interactions within our HS&E management systems; e.g. incidents and near miss reports to assess any trends and ensure organisational-wide learning from incidents.
We're looking for someone who has:
- Practical experience of working in a high-risk sector such as construction, maintenance or manufacturing.
- Experience and practical understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation.
- Practical knowledge of construction and maintenance processes
- Practical knowledge of working at height legislation, including scaffolding.
- Working knowledge and understanding ISO environmental and safety management systems.
- NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate qualification in Occupational Health and Safety.
- A full/clean driving licence
What’s in it for you?
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.
We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.
About us
Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.
It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.
We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.
We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.
