QHSE Advisor

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company in the UK is seeking a QHSE professional to support their Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental strategies. The successful candidate will conduct audits, maintain ISO certifications, and enhance business performance. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of QHSE standards, experience in auditing, and the ability to drive company culture. This role involves travel and a mix of site, office, and remote work.

Benefits

Virtual GP access

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

High street discounts

Enhance pension contributions

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• 3 years of demonstrable experience in a QHSE role.
• Understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and EN1090 standards.
• QHSE Compliance experience in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular on-site audits and develop audit schedules.
• Maintain ISO certifications and improve quality management systems.
• Drive the company's QHSE culture and assist Project Managers.

Skills

Understanding of ISO standards

Auditing/inspection skills

Communication

Planning & Organising

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

NEBOSH General or similar

Tools

PowerBi

Teams

Sharepoint

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Overview Of Role

This will be a business support role in a UK Company which currently employs around 170 people. RHI's scope of activities are:

The supply, installation and maintenance of Electric Fencing Systems, Automated Gate and Barrier Systems, Earthing and Lightning Protection Systems, structural steelwork designed, fabricated (BSEN ISO1090-EXC 2) and erected. Fencing, CCTV, Access control and alarms systems across major utilities such as National Grid, National Gas and Scottish Power.

In this role, you will be part of the QHSE team reporting to the QHSE Manager. Your primary tasks will be carrying out regular on site audits, delivering QHSE messages, driving a well established and H+S culture, providing input for the Business Quality Management System and assist in maintaining our ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and EN1090 certifications.

Working closely with the Division and Project Managers and employees, you will help RHI meet its objectives and contribute to enhancements in business performance and customer value within the organisation.

Your office base would be located in the North East of England, Matfen, NE20 0RQ but will be expected to carry out extensive travel throughout the UK if required, but with a focus on the midlands to southern England. A mix of site, office and remote working is expected to meet business demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Enforcement and driving of the Company QHSE culture and systems.
• Maintaining and supporting continual improvement of the ISO 9001, ISO45001 and EN1090 certifications.
• Conducting internal & external QHSE audits and developing audit schedules for projects inline with company policy for sensible monitoring schedules.

Main Duties

• Reporting accidents, incidents and safety spots promptly and carrying out low level investigations
• Supporting the delivery of new employee inductions
• Helping to ensure QHSE processes and standards are effectively implemented across all business activities
• Manage and conduct internal and site QHSE audits
• Report audit findings to the QHSE Manager with the aim of harnessing best practice and eradicating non value processes
• Assist in working towards achieving ISO 14001 certification as part of creating an integrated management system
• Advise and give guidance to project managers and designers on all QHSE matters.
• Carry out drug and alcohol tests on colleagues
• Seek to identify new and improved processes which benefit the deliverables to the company's clients and provide easy-to-use procedures for employees.
• Spend time as required at company offices throughout the UK and other work-sites as required
• Maintain company objectives to achieve continual improvement
• Liaise with the company QHSE Manager, General Managers to provide / implement QHSE awareness and processes.
• Any other duties as may reasonably be required from time-to-time and within the employees physical and technical capability

Experience

Essential

• Understanding of ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and EN1090 standards
• 3 years of demonstrable experience in a QHSE role at any level.
• Auditing/ inspection skills associated with QHSE

Desirable

• QHSE Compliance experience associated with National Grid Electric or National Gas or similar high risk, highly regulated environments.
• Accident and incident investigation
• Experience or competency in training delivery.
• Engineering, mechanical or electrical background

Qualifications & Accreditations

• NEBOSH General, construction or other similar qualifications such as IOSH. (Flexible in this matter)

Desirable

• Qualified and/or experienced Auditor in ISO 9001, ISO 4001, ISO 14001

Environmental / sustainability qualification or experience in developing processes

Competencies and personal skills for this role will include the following:

• Thorough knowledge of Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and requirements in the UK
• Good working knowledge and extensive experience in Microsoft Office software products, such as PowerBi, Teams, Sharepoint, Planner.
• Planning & Organising: The ability to establish appropriate courses of action for self and/or others to accomplish a goal (Be able to self deploy)
• Communication: Able to express facts, ideas or feedback in a clear and concise
• Clear & concise report writing skills.
• Be able to build good working relationships with colleagues at different levels.
• Be able to influence different people who may have different external pressures and driving forces.
• Be willing to fit into a well established and successful team and bring a sense of humour!
• Bring ideas to the table and be ready to compromise, or at other times, fight your corner.

Benefits

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 at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 76,000 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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