Health And Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Stoke on Trent (ST6 4PY) – with travel to other JCB sites
Salary: £42,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
As a Health and Safety Manager you will champion and promote Health and Safety awareness across the JCB World Logistics and In Plant sites.  You will co-ordinate and monitor safety related processes including risk assessment, training, accident investigation, workplace safety audits and that inspections are being satisfactorily completed.  You will support audits and share best practice across the sites regarding all Health and Safety matters, and you will also work closely with facilities to ensure Contractors work safely on sites.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Advise management on Health & Safety legislation, safe methods of working, prevention of hazards to Health and the suitability of plant, protective equipment and control measures
• Understand and promote the use of Unipart Group H&S Policies and Procedures
• Maintain the Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) plan and support delivery of all associated actions
• Arrange H&S courses, inductions and meetings, producing materials and agendas as required
• Facilitate the reporting and investigation of all H&S incidents, ensuring that root cause is identified and recommendations made are delivered to prevent recurrence and improve controls
• Coach and mentor managers to improve their investigation skills and ensure that lessons learned are shared across sections/departments
• Provide statistical summaries of incidents to Management and draw attention to significant trends and occurrences
• Facilitate the completion of risk assessments, SOP’s and audits

About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

• Demonstrable understanding of Health & Safety legislation with experience in a similar role
• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety is essential, IOSH (Tech) is desirable
• Experience of SSOW/SOP writing
• Experience of Accident/Incident Investigation
• Experience in successfully dealing with external regulatory bodies
• 3PL experience is advantageous
• Flexible and committed to achieving team/site objectives
• Ability to build credible relationships with internal and external stakeholders – a skilled communicator  
• Ability to exercise sound and logical judgement
• Effective time management skills with the ability to work to targets and timescales
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• A commitment to self-development and team development
• Good data analysis skills and computer literate

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies.  We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.   As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may also have experience in the following: Health and Safety Consultant, Health and Safety Manager, H&S Manager, Health and Safety Officer, H&S Officer, H&S Consultant, Occupational Health & Safety, Risk Manager, Risk Management, NEBOSH, IOSH, etc.
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