Safety and Compliance Coordinator - Building ServicesNew

JD Sports Fashion; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Safety and Compliance Coordinator, where you will play a pivotal role in maintaining high standards of safety and compliance at the Kingsway Distribution Centre. This dynamic position involves managing contractor assessments, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, and conducting audits to uphold best practices. You will work closely with a diverse range of contractors and be responsible for training and development within the team. If you are passionate about safety and compliance and want to contribute to a thriving workplace culture, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Incremental Holiday Allowance

Staff Discount

Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount

Discounted Gym Membership

Personal Development Opportunities

Access to Apprenticeships

Qualifications

• Qualified to NEBOSH general certificate level for safety assessments.
• Experience in managing contractors and ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage contractor prequalification and procurement processes.
• Audit contractors for compliance and manage Health & Safety actions.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Risk Assessment

Contractor Management

Compliance Auditing

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Tools

Compliance Database

Job description

The building services team meet the challenge of ensuring the building, landscaping and offices are always maintained to the highest standard and fully operational. This high-profile position offers an exceptional opportunity to become an integral part of the Building Services Team delivering a professional service to all stakeholders at our Kingsway Distribution Centre.

Job Title: Safety and Compliance Coordinator (Building Services)

Location: Kingsway Business Park, Michael Faraday Avenue, Rochdale, OL16 4FW

Working Rota: Monday to Friday

Working Hours: 40

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Safety and Compliance Coordinator, you'll be doing the following:

• Manage the prequalification and procurement to ensure all the contractors we engage are sufficiently competent.
• Maintain a database of approved contractors.
• Assess contractor risk assessments and method statements on a job-by-job basis. Issue Permits to Work for higher risk tasks.
• Induct all individual operatives on the Health & Safety and emergency procedures for site.
• Audit contractors periodically for the duration of the work to ensure compliance with the agreed working practice.
• Sign off a Permit to Work on the completion of a job.
• Manage team training, development and toolbox talks.
• Ensure that the Kingsway SMS criteria is met and any changes trained out when required.
• Maintain statutory compliance database and ensure all areas of compliance are documented and complete.
• Manage and maintain completion, documentation and timings of planned preventative maintenance regime.
• Represent the Building Services team with Health & Safety matters.
• Manage Health & Safety actions that arise.
• Support with internal/external H&S audits.
• Implement best practice and CI within the Building Services team.

There are between 5 and 10 different Building Services contractors from a vast array of trades and disciplines on site each working day.

What We're Looking For:

• A degree of autonomy and independence for the building services team to avoid any potential risk of a conflict of interest.
• Be qualified and competent to at least NEBOSH general certificate level to assess the suitability of the control measures proposed.
• Be sufficiently experienced to assume the responsibility of issuing Permits to Work and to challenge and question contractors on Health and Safety.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.