Health & Safety Advisor
Multi-site role with a mix of site-based and remote / hybrid working
Up to £40,000pa
⏰ Mon – Fri - 9:00 - 5:30 (40 hours)
Your Role's Purpose
Rygor Group is looking for a practical and proactive Health & Safety Advisor to support our multi-site operations. This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone who enjoys being visible on site, building relationships with managers and technicians, and helping embed a positive, proportionate safety culture across the business.
As Health & Safety Advisor, you will act as a key point of contact for health and safety across the business, providing practical, on-site support, advice, and guidance to site teams. You will work closely with managers across the company’s 20+ locations to ensure risks are understood and managed effectively, while supporting compliance with UK health and safety legislation and internal standards.
Where You’ll Add Value
Rewarding
- Add value on a daily basis by supporting managers and technicians with practical, hands‑on health and safety advice that enables them to work confidently and safely
- Contribute to a positive working environment by supporting training, briefings, and continuous learning, helping people feel supported rather than policed
- Encourage proactive behaviours such as near‑miss reporting and good housekeeping, reinforcing a culture where people are recognised for doing the right thing
Reliable
- Maintain consistent safety standards across sites through regular visits, inspections, and safety checks, ensuring risks are identified and managed before incidents occur
- Support sites with robust risk management and safe systems of work, particularly for vehicle maintenance and repair, lifting equipment (LOLER), and hazardous substances (COSHH)
- Provide dependable support during incident and near‑miss investigations, including root cause analysis, follow‑up actions, and RIDDOR reporting where required
- Strengthen compliance and assurance through site audits, preparation for external inspections, and ongoing improvement of ISO management systems (ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001)
Respectful
- Build trusted relationships with site teams by engaging confidently and constructively with managers and technicians at all levels
- Take a proportionate, practical approach to health and safety that respects operational realities while maintaining high standards
- Promote environmental responsibility through safe management of waste oils, chemicals, and materials, supporting both people and the wider environment
⚙️ Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:
- NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, with willingness to travel regularly between sites
- Experience working in an operational, multi‑site environment
- Practical understanding of risk assessments, safe systems of work, and incident investigation, including RIDDOR reporting
- Confident, approachable, and able to engage positively with managers and technicians at all levels
- Practical and hands‑on, with a proportionate approach to health and safety
- Self‑motivated and proactive, comfortable managing own workload independently
- Clear communicator, able to handle incidents and challenging conversations calmly and professionally
- Fair, consistent, and respectful, building trust and credibility across sites
- Focused on learning, continuous improvement, and positive safety culture
- Experience within automotive, workshop, or engineering environments and knowledge of ISO standards (9001, 14001, 45001) would be advantageous
- Demonstrates Rygor’s values of being Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful in day‑to‑day work
Our Values & Behaviours
We’re looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals. You can read more about our values and the behaviours on our website.
Rewarding
I am grateful. I am courageous. I am curious.
✔️Reliable
I am honest. I am attentive. I am trustworthy.