HS&E Advisor

AJN Steelstock; Templecombe; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

AJN Steelstock is seeking an experienced HS&E professional to lead health and safety across our manufacturing sites in the UK. You will ensure compliance with current HS&E standards and legal requirements, communicate effectively, and contribute to policy development and safe systems of work.

The role includes delivering training, conducting risk assessments, supporting ISO 45001/14001 audits, and driving health, safety and environmental initiatives to reduce risk and environmental impact.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to implement health & safety policies and procedures.
• Experience leading risk assessments and corrective actions.
• Familiarity with ISO 45001 and 14001 standards and audits.

Responsibilities

• Lead HS&E across manufacturing sites, ensuring legal compliance and safe systems of work.
• Conduct risk assessments, training, and toolbox talks; improve safety culture.
• Assist ISO 45001/14001 audits and liaison with HSE and local authorities.

Skills

HS&E knowledge

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent

IEMA beneficial

Job description

Protecting employees in the workplace, using expert knowledge and experience to control risks at work , ensuring the Company meets current HS&E standards and legal requirements. Also communicating effectively to deliver HS&E messages, as well as being involved in the planning, production and implementation of new policies, procedures and strategies and safe systems of work to raise or maintain health and safety standards.

Salary

Competitive, dependent on experience.

Plus benefits, plus potential discretionary bonus.

Shifts Available

Mid shift (40 hours per week): Monday to Friday (14:00 – 23:00)

This includes a one hour unpaid break.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with a team of people dedicated to HS&E
• Monitor and review both written and operational works to ensure their effectiveness, compliance, and following consultation, implement new protective and preventative measures when required by law or by the Company in achieving best practice
• Liaise with colleagues to ensure a consistent approach to health and safety across all sites and satellite offices. This may require visiting all premises when required
• Assist the HS&E Manager/Department in ensuring that the Company remains up to date with all legislative requirements, updating relevant policies and procedures when necessary and maintaining Company compliance
• Carry out, record, communicate and implement workplace risk assessments and produce safe systems of work and assist when required
• Carry out HS&E induction training for new team members and site visitors and assist with the monitoring of existing members
• Produce, develop and deliver HS&E training courses
• Produce and deliver a programme of effective toolbox talks on relevant topics i.e. workplace incidents, observations, changes in work practice, legislation and training requirements
• Arrange and prepare external training materials
• Assist with the implementation of training plans
• Carry out and analyse accident, incident and near miss investigations. Establish the root causes, effective PCA’s and implement measures for continual improvement and the reduction in incident rates
• Carry out site inspections, accurately record observations, near misses and incidents
• Liaise with the Company’s Occupational Health and prepare appointments for visits
• Ensure visitors and customers compliance of site rules, Company procedures and safe working practices
• Carry out HS&E audits as per our ISO 45001 procedures, raise the necessary reports to a suitable level and assist with the implementation of changes when required
• Assist with the preparation and be in attendance for ISO 45001 and 14001 external audits as when required
• Be proactive in suggesting HS&E initiatives to improve health, safety and well-being on site with a view to reducing accident and incident rates
• Be proactive in suggesting environmental initiatives to improve the environmental impact, reducing the carbon footprint, improving the sustainability and reducing incident rate
• Assist with the planning, implementation and recording of all operational plant and equipment inspections and monitoring under current legislation i.e. LOLER, PUWER, working at height, confined space, gas safe and air and noise surveys etc
• Assist with the management of the contractor evaluation process, including on site management of contractors in line with legislative requirements, ISO 45001 and best practice
• Carry out site inspections to ensure compliance with legislation, management systems and the Company’s procedures and safe systems of work
• Liaise with the Company’s insurance company when required
• Liaise with the HSE and local authorities when required
• Carry out any other ad hoc duties to enable the effective running of the department
• Communicate effectively with all employees to achieve active engagement in HS&E matters
• Attend all training courses as and when required
• Follow all safe systems of work at all times. Identify and report any shortcomings that become apparent whilst undertaking tasks or if the tasks change or new activities are undertaken. Liaise with the HS&E Department to ensure such risks are assessed and procedures amended as necessary
• Actively engage in the identification of risks within the workplace and the subsequent assessment development of suitable safe systems of work. When necessary, intervene to prevent breaches of health and safety and/or report as necessary
• Follow the requirements of the Company Quality Management Systems, policies and procedures to help achieve a quality product for the customer and reduce the non-conformances
• Follow the requirements of the Company Environmental Management System to assist the Company’s objective to reduce the detrimental effect on the environment by way of waste management and any other areas to improve the environmental impact
• Collect and document data from internal and external sources that relate to the company’s carbon emissions
• Be involved in the planning and implementation of the AJN Steelstock path to Net Zero and evaluating the company’s performance against our internal Net Zero roadmap.

Experience & Skills

• Experience working in a manufacturing, heavy plant/equipment or transport environments beneficial.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent required
• NEBOSH diploma or equivalent and IEMA beneficial.