Health & Safety & Facilities Advisor

We are looking for a Health & Safety and Facilities Advisor to be responsible for the H&S agenda across the business; delivering the H&S training programme, including PPE and ensuring legislation compliance appropriate for the business need.

You should have significant experience of both H&S and Facilities, prior experience of managing third party contractors and project management are preferable.

Responsible for ensuring that safety legislation is implemented and applied to Company policies and practices. To plan, implement, monitor and review the protective and preventative measures that the Company are required, or choose to follow, and work to minimise operational losses, occupational health problems, accidents and injuries.

Main duties

Health & Safety

• Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all Health and Safety legislation and any developments that affect the Company;
• Liaise with regulatory bodies to ensure the Company is compliant with mandatory regulations;

• Prepare health and safety strategies and develop internal policy in line with regulations;

• Advise on a range of specialist areas, eg fire regulations, hazardous substances, noise, safeguarding machinery and occupational diseases & outline safe operational procedures which identify and take account of relevant hazards;

Site Facilities

• Responsible for the installation and maintenance of the fire alarm system, fire extinguishers and other safety systems;.
• Responsible for planning and running emergency evacuations/fire drills;

• Work with all departments to ensure the effective and efficient management and disposal of waste;

• Arrange and monitor regular testing for electrical equipment and safety devices;

• Ensure the safe installation of equipment; carry out and record regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented;

• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of building systems and services across the site in liaison with the site maintenance team;

• Management of building and grounds maintenance;

• Ensure all premises, plant and equipment are maintained in safe working condition in accordance with statutory requirements and are within the Company standards;

• Project manage, coordinate and supervise works of contractors;

• Prepare an annual programme for maintenance and decoration of the site buildings;

• Ensure up to date plans of the site are maintained;

Person specification

• Recognised Safety & Environmental qualification (Nebosh Certificate)

• Credible experience in Site Services role, including preventative maintenance:

• Project management experience is preferable;

The role offers great scop within a growing company.