Job Description
Joining Great Bear as a HSQE Advisor you will be the first point of contact for Health & Safety advice. The HSQE Advisor will be responsible to drive the Health & Safety culture on sites and promote and encourage a safe, open and honest working environment including raising awareness of Health & Safety, Quality and Environment standards required. The role will be inclusive of managing compliance, facilities for the site and property management for our tenants.
This role will cover two sites - Voltaic and Goresbrook based in Dagenham.
Working Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.00-16.00 (40 hour week)
Key Duties of an HSQE Advisor
- Preparing and completing Health and Safety audits, ensuring documentation is fully updated.
- Conducting customer auditing, BRC and internal auditing.
- Playing an active role in monthly Health and Safety meetings.
- Devising safety briefs including safety conversations across the site.
- Assessing COSHH (Control of Systems Hazardous to Health) and assessing risk associated.
- Maintaining role of Fire Marshall and Racking Inspector and training employees of evacuation procedures.
- Managing controlled documents and controlling permits to work for contractors on site.
- Responsible for the Health and Safety for the site in conjunction with the General Manager.
- Implementing and maintaining third party quality agreements to ensure continuous and integrity of the supply of critical equipment and components.
- Property Management - Maintaining contact with tenants on site with regards to H&S queries and compliance.
- Facilities management - Point of contact for contractors etc for both sites.
Qualifications
- Strong knowledge in Health & Safety legislation, good working practices as well as regulatory inspections/servicing compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act.
- Ability to demonstrate sound experience of ensuring a secure and safe site.
- Proven experience of a fast-moving distribution environment with experience of applying root cause and trend analysis.
- Experience of Health & Safety audits, project management and applying of Quality Risk Management.
- Ability to expedite non-conformities/compliance as a result of audit inspections.
- Able to provide the methodology to encourage continuous improvements in order to implement best practices.
- PC literate with a sound working knowledge of MS Office, with strong attention to detail.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to persuade and influence employees and customers.
- Good time management skills with the ability and desire to solve problems.
- RoSPA qualification and HACCP experience is advantageous.
- IOSH and NEBOSH qualification is essential.
Benefits
Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:
- Annual Leave: Competitive holiday entitlement of 33 days inclusive of the bank holidays.
- Company Bonus: We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
- Private Medical Cover: This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa.
- Pension scheme: we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer.
- Life Assurance: x4 your annual salary.
- Wellness: Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Eye Care Vouchers: We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
- Reward & Recognition: We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
- Everyday discounts: via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!
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