Health & Safety Officer

RMS are excited to be recruiting for a Health and Safety Officer for a fantastic Automotive client based in Redcar.

You will be responsible for continuing to drive a positive H&S culture by delivering a comprehensive and pro-active site-based H&S support service that meets the needs of the business and legal requirements.

This is an office-based role working full-time, 37 hours a week Monday to Friday. This is a permanent position.

Main Duties & Responsibilities will include:

• Proactively support, consult and advise employees, managers and plant management on all questions concerning the safety-related design of workplaces, including ergonomic considerations for work processes and the use of work equipment as well as hazardous substances.
• Designing, planning and delivering effective safety training and safety briefings based on the risk assessments and safety instructions as well as support of the managers in their implementation.
• Supporting managers in the preparation and regular review of risk assessments, method statements, site inspections and audits.
• Responsible for the implementation and maintaining of a system to perform and monitor of legal required Health & Safety trainings.
• Safety assessments of all plant equipment, (new) machines and systems within production area.
• Responsible for monitoring legal compliance with health and safety legislation throughout the plant by planning and carrying out site inspections (audits) including documentation, reporting duties etc.  Ensuring COSHH compliance and ISO 45001 accreditation is maintained.
• Coordinate and analysing health and safety incidents and investigations (accidents, near misses etc.) including the necessary reporting to plant management and managers, as well as establishing root cause, definition and monitoring of corrective actions and the lessons learned process.
• Support managers and employees with return-to-work risk assessments as required.
• Interface between plant and authorities (e.g. HSE etc.) to comply with legal requirements regarding Health & Safety.
• Chair regular H&S meetings, issuing minutes and following up actions as well as participate in other cross functional working groups.
• Issue regular H&S newsletter/bulletins to all employees.
• Coordinate PPE for employees, visitors etc as required.

As an ideal candidate, you should:

• Must hold a recognised H&S qualification (NEBOSH, IOSH etc).
• Post holder should be a self-motivated professional and have excellent interpersonal skills with experience in a similar level role ideally from within a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to mentor and support employees and managers on H&S issues as well as being able to have difficult conversations in a timely manner as required.

If you are interested, please apply directly, or contact Robert Colgrave on (phone number removed).

RMS is an equal opportunities employer and recruits and promotes employees based on suitability for the job. If you are not contacted within 7 days of the closing date, then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.