Group Health & Safety Coordinator

All About Us

Barrett Steel Limited, the UK’s largest steel stockholder with over 150 years of heritage. Family owned, the group is made up of 30 sites and holds over 120,000 tonnes of steel stock. Barrett Steel is committed to providing innovative and exceptional service by continuously investing in the latest processing machinery and materials handling equipment. Customer needs and community support are at the heart of everything, ensuring Barrett Steel is always your local steel stockholder.

All About the Role

We currently have an exciting opportunity available for an experienced Health & Safety Coordinator to work within the Group Health & Safety Team to develop and promote a positive culture across the business, this will include developing and supporting the implementation of the Group Safety Management System; Providing professional support to several sites within a defined region, working with local Operations Managers and Business Heads to ensure that all areas of H&S legislation, policy, strategy are implemented at site level.

Specific tasks will include:

• To ensure compliance with Group policies and with all relevant legislation
• To develop and implement Group Health & Safety Improvement Plans
• Coordination of all Health and Safety matters
• Act as focal point for reporting, communication, tracking of all defect reports and H&S improvement actions
• Help to identify and share best practices throughout the Group and to foster a culture of continuous improvement throughout the business in respect of the overall Health & Safety Management System
• Provide guidance and support to operations staff for Risk Assessments, local safe working procedures and incident investigations
• To record and analyse incidents and H&S performance, reporting KPIs and communicating performance effectively as required
• To ensure that effective sharing and learning exists across all sites within scope and throughout the Group as appropriate.
• Ensuring that training and professional qualifications are maintained to ensure ongoing professional competence

We offer you

• Highly competitive salary depending on your experience
• Company Car or Car Allowance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Annual Cycle to work scheme
• Life assurance
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
• Access to health and wellbeing services
• Barrett Steel pension
• Career progression

All About You

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

Essential Skills for the role:

• Hold IOSH membership ideally Chartered Membership
• Hold a NEBOSH Certificate as a minimum requirement (NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent would be desirable.)
• Demonstrate a positive track record attained over a minimum of 3 years H&S Experience in a manufacturing, process engineering or logistics environment.
• Have experience of implementing assessments, prevention, and control techniques in manufacturing environments (ideally being an experienced Auditor (ISO))
• To fully support your allocated sites, regular visits to your sites will be essential, you may also need to travel to other sites within the Group; this could well lead to overnight stays, so a full UK driving license with the ability to travel frequently and stay away as needed is essential.

How it feels to work for us

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward-thinking organisation that is respected as the UK’s leading steel stockholder. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business. Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change.

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