EHS Advisor
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
We are looking for an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Advisor to help create a workplace where everyone leaves and returns safe, healthy and well. This role plays a key part in shaping and strengthening our safety culture within a fast‑paced manufacturing environment. You’ll partner with leaders and colleagues across the business to proactively identify and manage risks, influence behaviours, and drive continuous improvement in EHS practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and evolve a positive safety culture, encouraging learning from incidents and focusing on system improvements rather than blame
- Advise managers and employees on EHS policies, systems and compliance with ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards
- Conduct audits, inspections and risk assessments (e.g. PUWER, COSHH, manual handling), identifying improvements and ensuring actions are completed
- Lead on incident, accident and near‑miss investigations, ensuring learnings are captured and shared
- Analyse trends and KPIs, providing insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Deliver or coordinate EHS training, including inductions and behavioural safety initiatives
- Engage with stakeholders across the business to influence and embed best practice
- Proactively participate in shop‑floor activities (e.g. GEMBAs) to observe, coach and support teams
- Support environmental initiatives and ensure targets are achieved across the site
- Collaborate with external bodies including auditors and regulatory organisations
- Play an active role in continuous improvement and behavioural‑based safety programmes
Your Experience
- Previous experience in an EHS role within a manufacturing, engineering or heavy industry environment
- Experience conducting risk assessments and leading incident investigations
- Strong understanding of ISO standards (45001, 14001, 50001)
- Comfortable working within a hands‑on, shop‑floor environment
- Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders
- NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent)
- Knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental legislation and its application
Desirable
- Experience of behavioural safety and culture change initiatives
- Environmental or sustainability knowledge/qualifications (e.g. IEMA)
- Experience auditing ISO standards
Your Skills
- Strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels
- Proactive and solutions‑focused mindset, with a continuous improvement approach
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to prioritise workload and deliver within tight timeframes
- High attention to detail and commitment to compliance and best practice
- Team‑oriented, with a genuine passion for health, safety and wellbeing
- Confident in coaching, mentoring and challenging behaviours where needed
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, flexible working, 27 days holiday (before bank holidays), 3 days paid volunteering leave, private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, share ownership option, free on‑site parking, and flexible benefits.
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