HSE Advisor Branch Support

Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited; Highgate; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building materials distributor is seeking a Health, Safety, and Environment Advisor to support branches across the Midlands. You will ensure compliance with health and safety regulations while promoting a safety culture within the organization. The ideal candidate should have a NEBOSH General Certificate and TechIOSH status, along with strong communication skills and experience in safety culture initiatives. Benefits include a competitive bonus and a contributory pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive bonus

Save-as-you-earn scheme

Buy-as-you-earn scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Colleague discount across Group businesses

Qualifications

• 18 months post qualification experience in medium risk business.
• Experience of safety culture and behavioural change programmes.
• Able to train and effectively represent at both Regional Director and Front Line levels.

Responsibilities

• Support Branch Managers in resolving HSE related queries and problems.
• Deliver HSE related training in line with the business HSE plan.
• Manage the Lost Time Incident verification and investigation process.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Strong influencer

Pragmatic in approach

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

TechIOSH status

Job description

This role will support branches in/around the West and East Midlands. This role is responsible for providing front-line Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) support to Branch Managers and Regional Directors, acting as a trusted advisor to ensure compliance with company policies and statutory requirements while driving a strong safety culture across the business. The position oversees Group and statutory Health & Safety reporting, leads Lost Time Injury (LTI) investigations with thorough root cause analysis and corrective action follow-up, manages HSE-related cases to resolution, and delivers the second line of defence audit programme to provide assurance, identify risks, and recommend improvements. Through these activities, the role plays a critical part in safeguarding employees, reducing operational risks, and enabling the organisation to meet its commitment to health, safety, and sustainability.

Principal Accountabilities

• Undertake HSE Branch Reviews (2nd line of Defence Audits) in line with business risk profile.
• Support Branch Managers in resolving HSE related queries and problems.
• Deliver HSE related training in line with the business HSE plan or as a result of a specific training need identified.
• Manage the Lost Time Incident verification and investigation process supporting line managers ensuring that the Just Culture principles are correctly applied.
• Work with HR to support line managers with the Return to Work process for colleagues off as a result of a lost time incident, ensuring robust plans are in place to help them return to a normal way of life as quickly as possible.
• Complete all RIDDOR reporting requirements for your region.
• Review the various HSE Data streams for your region (eg near misses, self‑assessment returns) to determine quality insights that you can use to help support Branch Managers and Regional Directors reduce risk; supporting Branch Managers to resolve potentially significant/sense near misses.

Qualifications

• NEBOSH General Certificate
• TechIOSH status
• 18 months post qualification experience in medium risk business
• Experience of safety culture and behavioural change programmes
• Excellent communicator
• Able to train and effectively represent at both Regional Director and Front Line levels
• Pragmatic in approach and solutions generated
• Full legal and technical understanding of H&S
• Strong influencer

Benefits

• Competitive bonus
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• Buy-as-you-earn scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including 20% off at Toolstation

About Travis Perkins

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years. With over five businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We'll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company.