QHSE Advisor

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual GP access

Salary Finance

Choices lifestyle benefits

MiDeals member discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Life cover

Enhanced pension contributions

Mitie Stars recognition

Job summary

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking an experienced QHSE Advisor at Sellafield to strengthen our Integrated Management System and assure compliance with client requirements and industry best practice.

You will work with operational teams to provide practical QHSE advice, conduct audits and investigations, and support risk management and continual improvement across the contract, ensuring safety leadership and robust assurance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a QHSE Advisor role or equivalent.
• 3+ years in high-hazard, highly regulated environments.
• Proven record of QHSE improvements and supporting operational performance.
• Strong knowledge of quality, health, safety and environmental management systems.
• Experience conducting audits, inspections and investigations.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical and professional QHSE advice and support.
• Conduct audits, inspections and investigations.
• Support compliance with quality, health, safety and environmental standards.
• Analyse trends and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Promote proactive safety culture and positive behaviours.
• Support risk management and implementation of effective controls.
• Contribute to development of management systems and assurance activities.

Skills

QHSE expertise

Auditing

Stakeholder engagement

Investigations

Communication

Education

NEBOSH qualification

Tools

Audit tools

MS Office

Job description

Better places, thriving communities.

Better places, thriving communities.

Join Mitie – the future of high performing places.

ROLE: QHSE Advisor

HOURS: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

LOCATION: Sellafield - Seascale

Are you an experienced QHSE professional looking for a role where you can make a real impact? Do you enjoy working closely with operational teams, supporting compliance, improving performance, and helping create safer workplaces?

Mitie is seeking an experienced QHSE Advisor to join a dynamic contract operating within a highly regulated environment. Supporting a diverse range of operational, technical and support services, this role offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of stakeholders while helping drive excellence in quality, health, safety and environmental performance.

This position requires a practical, solutions-focused professional who can provide credible advice, recognise good practice, constructively challenge where improvements are needed, and support continual improvement across the contract.

Please Note

This is not an entry-level or trainee role. We are looking for an established QHSE professional with significant practical experience in advisory positions and a strong track record of working within complex, high-risk, safety-critical or highly regulated environments.

The Role

Reporting to the QHSE Manager, you will help maintain and improve the Integrated Management System, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, client requirements, company standards and industry best practice.

Working closely with managers, supervisors, employees, subcontractors and clients, you will:

• Provide practical and professional QHSE advice and support.
• Conduct audits, inspections and investigations.
• Support compliance with quality, health, safety and environmental standards.
• Analyse trends and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Promote positive behaviours and a proactive safety culture.
• Support operational teams in managing risk and implementing effective controls.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of management systems and assurance activities.

About You

Could you confidently support operational teams in a demanding environment? Have you successfully influenced positive change, challenged poor practice where necessary, and helped improve safety performance?

To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a QHSE Advisor role, or
• At least 3 years' experience within a high-hazard, highly regulated or safety-critical environment.
• A proven record of delivering QHSE improvements and supporting operational performance.
• Strong knowledge of quality, health, safety and environmental management systems.
• Experience conducting audits, inspections, incident investigations and assurance activities.
• The ability to build positive working relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong communication, engagement and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to work independently while remaining an effective member of a wider team.

Essential Requirements

Professional qualifications such as NEBOSH are required; however, qualifications alone are not sufficient for this position.

Have you applied your knowledge in the workplace? Can you demonstrate experience providing competent advice, supporting investigations, conducting audits, influencing decision-making and improving compliance in a demanding operational environment?

This role is intended for experienced practitioners who can quickly establish credibility and provide effective support from the outset.

Desirable Requirements

• TechIOSH or CertIOSH membership (or actively working towards).
• AIEMA membership or an equivalent environmental qualification.
• Internal Auditor qualification for ISO 45001, ISO 9001 and/or ISO 14001.

Why Join Mitie?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading organisation and make a measurable impact on safety performance, compliance and operational excellence. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role where your experience and expertise will be valued, we'd like to hear from you.

There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!

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 Jessica Mercel 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.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.