Cooplands Health &Safety Trainee Advisor

Role: Trainee Health and Safety advisor

Location: Durham, DH1 2HE

Hours: Full-Time (39 hours) / Permanent

Salary: £25,000

Company: Cooplands Bakery  

In Cooplands we take pride in our handmade, healthy, and award-winning products. And we owe our Health and Safety department a great deal of importance for their cooperation in making sure all our products are healthy, clean, and well presented. Our Health and Safety team are looking for a talented, well organized, and dedicated Trainee Health and Safety Supervisor to take over the responsibility for improving the Health & Safety culture and to meet business needs and legislative standards.

What will my role look like?

In your role you are required to be an active member of the site’s health and safety committee you will be responsible for the delivery of the Health and Safety Strategies through your support to the Health and Safety manager and ensuring to complete the safety walks and assist in ensuring remedial actions are completed on time and monitoring the manufacturing process to ensure that all the validations and verification documentation of the health and safety are completed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviewing risk assessments and safe working procedures in conjunction with Department Managers and staff.
• Conducting site health and safety inspections and reporting findings to H & S Manager
• Ensuring permits to work control measure are in place in accordance with company policy.
• Assisting Department Managers in the completion of accident / near miss incident investigations.
• Assisting in the completion of all scheduled H & S monitoring.
• Assisting in the arrangements for occupational health surveillance.
• Assisting the H & S Manager in ensuring remedial actions of safety reports (E.g. Racking Inspections, Fire Risk Assessment, Insurance Reports) are completed in timely manner.
• Completing monthly KPI reports as directed by H & S Manager

Skills, know-how and experience:

• A good experience in a food manufacturing environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Team Player and ability to build close relationships with your team.
• A Proactive, innovative, flexible, and co-operative approach to work
• Adaptability to change.

What’s in it for me?

To show our appreciation for your hard work, we have a range of benefits you can take advantage of

• 25% Staff Discount
• 28 Days Annual Leave (including bank holidays and rising up to 33 days with long service
• Pension Scheme
• 24/7 access to virtual GP & wellbeing service
• Life Assurance
• Progression & career opportunities
• Recognition rewards
• Discretionary Sickness pay
• Compassionate Leave

Got what it takes?

Apply today to start your fantastic career as our Cooplands Trainee Health & Safety Advisor!