safety coordinator Rugby, England
Job description
Häfele UK Limited
Swift Valley Industrial Estate, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1RD
Tel: 01788 542020 Fax: 01788 548148
Email: [email protected] www.hafele.co.uk
Health and Safety Coordinator
(Permanent, Full-Time, Based on Site Rugby 5 days)
Location: Rugby
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 enthusiastic health and safety professional to join our team on a permanent, full- time basis. This role will support the Health and Safety Manager by being the first point of contact for colleagues with health and safety concerns and advising or resolving as appropriate.
With strong IT skills and attention to detail, the role will involve the creation of documents and filing accurately within the Health and Safety Management System as well as managing and monitoring existing processes and procedures maintaining compliance with relevant standards.
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.
This role will suit someone who is currently in a Health and Safety related 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.
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
- Maintaining emergency response preparedness
- 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:
- Strong organisational and IT skills with attention to detail
- Confident communication skills with the ability to influence change
- Knowledge and experience of conducting risk assessments
- Experience in a warehouse setting
- Minimum IOSH Managing Safely qualification or awareness of relevant H&S legislation
- Ambition to continue with your own personal professional development
- Advantageous: 1 - 2 years in a Health and Safety role
- Advantageous: NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) or willing to work towards
What you’ll get in return:
- Competitive salary
- Annual Bonus
- Benefits including: o Holiday of 23 days’ basic + 8 bank holidays in a complete year, increasing to 28 days basic with our length of service programme o 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 o Discounts: Huge range of shopping and activity discounts available through
Westfield Rewards o Pension Scheme o Life Insurance o Stock Discounts o Learning and Development opportunities
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 by the close date. We are committed to equal opportunities.
Should we receive a sufficient volume of suitable applicants prior to the stated close date we reserve the right to close the advert early. In light of this please ensure your application is submitted as soon as possible.
Closing date: 23rd July 2023. No agencies
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Rugby: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 23/07/2023
Reference ID: 0074
