AddressWe’re the UK's largest ports operator with a network of 21 ports around Britain. We handle around one quarter of the UK's seaborne trade and contribute £7.5 billion to our economy every year.
It’s a story we’re proud of but it doesn’t end there. We’re transforming our business and embracing the future.
We offer a vast range of roles spanning the UK, all rooted in a culture that welcomes diversity, fosters talent, encourages internal movement and progression, and places safety as our number one priority.
Are you passionate about ensuring safety and wellbeing in the workplace? Do you thrive in dynamic environments where every day brings new challenges? If so, we want you to be part of our Health Safety and Environment team at ABP on the Humber.
Supporting the Regional HSE Manager, this role is pivotal in offering HSE guidance, assistance, and resolutions to operations, projects, functions, and port users within the Humber region. Working collaboratively within the regional HSE team, you'll be instrumental in implementing and harmonising health, safety, and environmental standards, systems, and initiatives, ensuring both legal and internal compliance.
This role can be based out of Immingham or Hull.
Accountabilities
- Provide proactive and professional HSE advice, coaching and support, ensuring that effective management of health, safety and environment is embedded across the regional business units and functions.
- Work with the regional HSE Manager to communicate and drive compliance with HSE standards to ensure a safe working environment.
- Guide, coach and support managers and employees at all levels to ensure they are aware of their HSE responsibilities.
- Manage the effective local implementation of the ABP HSE strategy, standards, culture and systems.
- Conduct and manage local safety checks, observations, conversations and audits, ensuring that non-compliances are promptly reported, and corrective actions raised, tracked and completed.
- Support the completion and ongoing review of risk assessments, safe ways of working and safe work instructions, identifying and reporting on inadequately controlled risks.
- Maintain and manage local HSE action plans to ensure the appropriate prioritisation, review, and completion of HSE actions.
- Facilitate and administer the local HSE Committees, ensuring that accurate records are maintained, and actions are effectively captured and added to the HSE action plans.
- Support the delivery of HSE engagement initiatives and campaigns to improve employee awareness, competency and safety performance.
- Ensure that all incidents, accidents, near misses, unsafe acts and conditions are appropriately reported, escalated and managed. Support incident investigations as required, ensuring appropriate actions are identified to prevent recurrences.
- Support the collection and analysis of safety performance data and HSE metrics, identifying and reporting areas of concern and appropriate actions.
- Maintain knowledge and awareness of HSE legislation, best practice and emerging risks, reporting changes that may impact the business.
Skills, experience, qualifications and competencies
Essential
- A recognised health and safety qualification (NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent) or working towards.
- Effective communication skills; written and oral with ability to engage and build positive relationships and influence up to management level.
- Motivated and able to work well in a team environment.
- Responsive, flexible, well organised and able to work to given deadlines.
- Ability to promote a positive health, safety and environmental culture within the local teams.
- Good level of understanding of HS&E legislation.
- Confident with the use of IT systems, e-learning platforms and software.
- Hold a current UK driving licence.
Ideal
- NEBOSH Diploma qualification or working towards Diploma level qualification.
- Experience of providing HS&E professional support within a multi-site organisation.
- Awareness of Safety and Health Management Systems (ISO 45001), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001).
We can offer you a competitive annual salary, equivalent to 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), support for ongoing CPD, contributory pension scheme, private healthcare and access to wellness schemes & employee assistance schemes and discounts with a wide range of high street and online retailers. We also have an extensive in-house academy and industry specialists who deliver ongoing learning support.
Additional Information:
When joining ABP you will find an environment that is both welcoming and challenging. We reward our employees well and offer a generous remuneration package, employer pension, private health insurance and a range of other benefits.
Please note that ABP undertake random screening for substance abuse and operate a zero-tolerance policy. A medical will be required before starting this position also.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their background, which helps us to provide a diverse and inclusive working environment.
