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- Salary: Competitive
- Hours: 37.5 per week, Mon - Fri
- Location: Hybrid working including overseas travel
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing Date: 18 March 2024
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
We are recruiting for a Health & Safety Environment Executive to join the team and provide assistance with identification, monitoring and improvement of Health, Safety and Environment issues across Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Atlantic Holidays to ensure the safety and wellbeing of employees, customers, suppliers, third party contractors and visitors to all locations both in the UK and overseas.
Day to day
Some of your key responsibilities as our Health & Safety Environment Executive will be:
Audit
- Ensure HSE self-assessment audits are conducted when necessary for VAA & VAH locations, including hotels, facilities, excursions, adventure activities and transport. Monitor responses and input into the PASS database. Manage HSE trackers with status of assessments
- Correspond with external suppliers for completion of self-assessments, chasing and monitoring responses and updating PASS
- Manage PASS reporting audit cycle ahead of assessment expiry, liaising with internal stakeholders and escalate when external suppliers have not completed assessments, negotiating deadline for rectification in line with the SLA
- Manage new Product requests and update internal stakeholder databases
- Assist HSE Manager with collation of information for Audit plan
Compliance
- Review systems and P&P's to drive efficiencies and continuous improvement in line with P&P matrix
- Support and assist with tasks in the Compliance plan
- Admin assistance and document control
About you
In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:
- Intermediate level Health & Safety qualification from accredited body e.g. CIEH, IOSH
- Intermediate level Food Hygiene qualification from accredited governing body e.g. CIEH
- Gas safety awareness for travel industry (CORGI level or equivalent)
- Understanding of key safety and environment issues
- Principles of fire safety training
- Understanding of Legionella risks
- Experience of working in an airline environment and/or a tour operator (preferred)
- Experience in data collection and analysis
Incident Management
- Investigate all Virgin Atlantic Airways HSE related incidents, accidents, illnesses, or near-misses to ensure issues are addressed to prevent re-occurrence and provide due diligence defense.
- Correspond with internal and external departments for any incidents involving employees or customers
- Monitor CSQ illness scores, identify trends and implement remedial actions and communicate to the HSE Team
- Creation of monthly dashboards for internal stakeholders, reviewing trends
- Review monthly incident reports for accuracy and feedback to stakeholders any issues found
- Support Legal team, Customer Care and Duty Office in defending claims to help reduce compensation claims
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.
