Regional Health & Safety Advisor

Marshalls PLC; Oxford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building materials supplier in the UK is seeking a Regional Health & Safety Compliance Advisor to ensure safety across its South East and South West production sites. The role involves driving safety culture and compliance, leading incident investigations, and providing training. Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years' experience in health and safety, a NEBOSH General Certificate, and strong communication skills. This position offers competitive salary and benefits including a generous holiday scheme and health care cash plan.

Benefits

26 days holiday + bank holidays

5% employer-matched pension scheme

Health care cash plan

Enhanced leave policies

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a health and safety role, ideally in manufacturing.
• Excellent understanding of safety and environmental legislation.
• Strong writing skills and experience in policy development.

Responsibilities

• Lead Health & Safety compliance across the South region.
• Influence and drive compliance on the shop floor.
• Organize and provide health and safety training.

Skills

Health and Safety Expertise

Incident Investigation

Effective Communication

Risk Assessment

Continuous Improvement

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

NEBOSH Diploma

IEMA Foundation or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Regional Health & Safety Compliance Advisor (South)

Monday to Friday – 37.5 hours / week

South East / South West

Salary Competitive DOE + Benefits

Be the driving force behind safe manufacturing at Marshalls plc, the UK’s leading supplier of hard landscaping, roofing, and building products. With over 130 years of manufacturing expertise and Superbrand status since 2010, we’re proud to be part of a FTSE 250 company that prioritises safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.

We’re looking for a proactive Regional Health & Safety Advisor to support our South East and South West production sites.

Your Mission : Lead and Embed a Strong Safety Culture

Reporting to the National Safety, Health and Environmental Manager, you'll lead Health & Safety compliance across our South region. You'll be the go‑to advisor for all things SHE (Safety, Health & Environment), working closely with site leaders, engineers, and production teams to ensure best‑in‑class safety practices are integrated into daily operations.

This is a hands‑on role that will see you travelling across our sites, out on the shop floor, influencing behaviours, driving compliance, and supporting continuous improvement across a range of H&S activities.

What You’ll Be Doing :

• Being a Safety Leader / Key Influencer / Ambassador.
• Providing leadership to the SHEQ Compliance Leads.
• Reviewing policy and implementation group wide.
• Using Continuous Improvement methodologies to enable effective incident analysis / root cause analysis.
• Risk profiling / heat mapping to test the strength of our defences.
• Seek to understand trends in incident occurrence.
• Attendance of team meetings with the National SHE Manager.
• Manage and report safety statistics for their areas of responsibility.
• Provide support to sites when serious incidents occur and play a lead role in the incident investigation.
• Provide or organise training in specialist health and safety areas.
• Periodic compliance auditing.
• Being knowledgeable in a particular subject matter, for example :
• Confined Spaces
• PUWER / LOTOTO
• Hazardous substances / dust
• Behavioural Safety
• Environmental
• Workplace Transport and Pedestrian Movement
• Working at Height.
• Implement and lead on programmes to manage high-risk activities.
• Perform to the requirements of the Marshalls Way Core Behaviours.
• Encourage a positive safety culture by use of the Marshalls Behavioural Safety people fairly in accordance with the Fair & Just Approach programme.
• Provide advice on safety improvements and support on Capex projects.
• Support the occupational health and hygiene requirements for their areas of responsibility.

What You’ll Bring :

• 5 years’ experience or more as a full‑time health and safety practitioner ideally in a manufacturing environment
• NEBOSH General Certificate (essential)
• NEBOSH Diploma (Desirable) or working towards
• IEMA Foundation or equivalent (Desirable)
• Excellent computer skills – Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communicator and listener
• Understanding of safety and environmental legislation
• Experience of incident investigation and analysis
• Strong writing skills, experience in policy development desirable
• Awareness of ISO 14001 Environment Management and ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management
• Accreditation to a professional body such as IOSH & IEMA (Desirable)
• Experience of presenting and delivering training programmes.
• Management of people experience (desirable but not essential).
• Experience of working with behavioural safety programmes (desirable but not essential).
• Knowledge of using digital data management systems, i.e. Gensuite (desirable but not essential).

Why Join Marshalls?

• 26 days holiday + bank holidays
• 5% employer-matched pension scheme
• Health care cash plan – dental, optical, prescriptions & more
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff discount on Marshalls and Marley products
• Retail discounts & wellbeing hub
• Life assurance and share purchase scheme

A Place Where You Matter

At Marshalls, safety and inclusivity go hand in hand. We believe everyone deserves to work in an environment where they feel valued, heard, and respected – and we're committed to providing that space. Whoever you are, you're welcome here.

Ready to take the lead on health and safety in a fast‑paced manufacturing setting? Apply now and join a team that puts people first.