Description
We are seeking a Health and Safety Advisor who is confident Health and Safety Advisor who can go beyond compliance, acting as a visible presence on site to influence behaviours, challenge decisions, and embed a proactive safety culture as part of our values?
Key responsibilities include:
- Deliver and embed our client’s H&S strategy, translating priorities into measurable operational outcomes while maintaining strong safety governance through audits, inspections, and risk management
- Act as the trusted H&S advisor to site leadership, providing pragmatic guidance, constructive challenge, and influencing decision‑making to balance risk, compliance, and business needs
- Provide visible, hands‑on safety leadership within operations, strengthening safety culture, driving behavioural change, and moving performance beyond basic compliance
- Develop leadership and operational capability, coaching managers on safety ownership, investigations, root cause analysis, and accountability across the site
- Use data, insight, and trend analysis to prioritise risk, manage competing H&S priorities, lead effective incident investigations, and deliver timely corrective actions, while collaborating across sites and supporting wider operational needs
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Experienced and technically competent safety professional (NEBOSH / NVQ L3 Qualification essential), with experience in a supervisory or safety‑related role (logistics background beneficial)
- Proven ability to influence and engage operational leaders, driving measurable safety improvement through coaching, investigation, and effective stakeholder management
- Strong investigative and problem‑solving capability, able to manage complex issues, lead outcomes, and drive continuous improvement in fast‑paced operational environments
- Highly organised, self‑motivated, and disciplined, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining high standards and integrity
- Confident and effective communicator, able to build trusted, professional relationships with colleagues, customers, regional teams, and external stakeholders at all levels