Environment Health and Safety Specialist

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Worthing; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP

Salary Finance

Choices lifestyle platform

Extra holidays

Critical illness insurance

Dental treatment

MiDeals discounts

Cycle-to-work

Life cover

Enhanced pension

Share plan

Mitie Stars prizes

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services in Worthing, West Sussex, is seeking an Environment, Health & Safety Specialist on a major pharmaceutical site. You will lead construction safety across several projects, influence site-wide safety performance and support capital investment and infrastructure initiatives.

Reporting to the EHS Director, you will manage RAMS reviews, permits to work, incident investigations and contractor management, while coaching teams to raise EHS capability and ensure

Qualifications

• NEBOSH qualification or equivalent in Health & Safety, Construction Safety or Environmental Management.
• Degree qualification in Engineering, Science, Environmental, Health & Safety or a related discipline.
• Experience in regulated manufacturing environments (pharmaceutical, FMCG, utilities, energy or other high-risk industries).
• Strong knowledge of contractor management, CDM, construction and demolition safety practices.
• Experience supporting engineering, maintenance, utilities, reliability or capital project teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to lead audits, investigations and compliance programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site's Construction Safety programme across multiple projects.
• Provide expert guidance on construction, demolition, contractor safety, permits to work, and risk management.
• Support environmental compliance activities including energy, water, waste, wastewater and sustainability initiatives.
• Conduct audits, inspections and compliance reviews across EHS programmes.
• Partner with engineering, operations and project teams to ensure safe delivery of capital projects.
• Review and approve RAMS, Construction Phase Plans and associated project documentation.
• Support incident investigations, corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build EHS capability through coaching, training and engagement with employees and contractors.
• Act as a key point of contact for regulators, auditors and senior site stakeholders.

Skills

NEBOSH

Engineering degree

Manufacturing experience

CDM knowledge

Contractor management

Stakeholder management

Audits & investigations

Education

Engineering/Science degree

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Environment, Health & Safety Specialist

Worthing, West Sussex | 18-Month Fixed Term Contract

Please note: This is a predominantly site-based role located in Worthing, West Sussex.

Are you an experienced EHS professional looking for an opportunity to make a real impact within a highly regulated manufacturing environment?

We're recruiting for an Environment, Health & Safety Specialist to join a specialist EHS team on a major pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Worthing. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with senior stakeholders, influence site-wide safety performance, and play a key role in supporting significant capital investment and infrastructure projects.

This is a highly visible position reporting into the site's EHS Director, with a particular focus on Construction Safety, Demolition Activities, Environmental Compliance, and Contractor Management.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading the site's Construction Safety programme and driving continuous improvement across multiple projects.
• Providing expert guidance on construction, demolition, contractor safety, permits to work, and risk management.
• Supporting environmental compliance activities including energy, water, waste, wastewater and sustainability initiatives.
• Conducting audits, inspections and compliance reviews across EHS programmes.
• Partnering with engineering, operations and project teams to ensure safe delivery of capital projects.
• Reviewing and approving RAMS, Construction Phase Plans and associated project documentation.
• Supporting incident investigations, corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Building EHS capability through coaching, training and engagement with employees and contractors.
• Acting as a key point of contact for regulators, auditors and senior site stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

We're keen to hear from candidates who bring a strong combination of environmental, health & safety and construction safety expertise gained within a regulated or high-hazard environment.

You Should Have

• NEBOSH qualification or equivalent in Health & Safety, Construction Safety or Environmental Management.
• Degree qualification in Engineering, Science, Environmental, Health & Safety or a related discipline.
• Experience working within manufacturing, process, pharmaceutical, FMCG, utilities, chemical, energy or other high-risk industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of contractor management, CDM, construction and demolition safety practices.
• Experience supporting engineering, maintenance, utilities, reliability or capital project teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• The ability to lead audits, investigations and compliance programmes.

Desirable

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience.
• Chartered status within a relevant discipline.
• Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser (DGSA) qualification.
• Experience supporting Net Zero, sustainability or environmental compliance programmes.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Marie Hyde at [e-mail].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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