Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin – an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments! 

We want to build a team of people with purpose. That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a HSE Advisor to join our team at Doncaster. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

Reporting to the Northern Europe HSE Manager, the HSE Advisor will work predominately at our Doncaster site with frequent travel to other sites in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. The role is a permanent role working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. As the HSE Advisor you will be responsible for functioning as the company’s competent person for Health & Safety as defined by the management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Ensuring that the Company complies with Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and approved codes of practice and guidance. Proactively identifying HSE improvement opportunities, determining and presenting underlying improvement cases and executing HSE improvement projects at sites.

Supporting the deployment of the Wavin Group HSE Management System. Coordinating the HSE agenda at site level for 3 sites in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, providing Health, Safety and Environmental technical knowledge and expertise to the Management Committees and Plant management teams.
 
The main duties and responsibilities of the role are to:
 

• Lead, train, coach, and support site staff in the field of Health, Safety and Environmental improvement.
• To ensure the Company’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies are implemented consistently.
• To monitor, evaluate and review Health, Safety and Environmental policies, practice, and legal compliance. Make recommendations and implement new policies and procedures as required.
• To advise the Senior Management Team on the implications of current and emerging Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, including evaluating options for implementation.
• Make recommendations and generate actions plans to ensure compliance across the organisation.
• Support managers to maintain safe systems, providing specialist advice, coaching and practical support.
• Conduct audits, evaluate the effectiveness of Health, Safety and Environmental systems and procedures, identify, and implement improvements where necessary.
• Manage and maintain the accurate reporting of Health, Safety and Environmental Leading and Lagging performance indicators, providing dashboard reports where required.
• Proactively identify and present Health, Safety and Environmental improvement opportunities on Site, Territory and Business Unit levels.
• Proactively identify and share best practices with other Health, Safety and Environmental Team members across the organisation.
• Coordinate the issuing of notifications where required to the Health & Safety Executive.
• To investigate, or where appropriate, to assist others to investigate the circumstances and causes of accidents and events. Support actions to take necessary steps to prevent a recurrence.

To be successful in the role you will have/be:
 

• Relevant professional qualification e.g. IOSH, NEBOSH certificate, NEBOSH diploma
• Chartered member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH) and having continuous Improvement knowledge and training (green belt level) is desirable
• Working knowledge of current Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and its application in a manufacturing environment
• Working knowledge of current Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and its application in a heavy plant (Clayware or Steelworks) environment would be advantageous
• Leading the HSE agenda by example
• Willingness to stand out and convince others of business case underlying HSE improvements
• The ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload
• Knowledge and a proven history of delivery of health, safety and environmental management systems and the provision of advice
• Willingness to learn and to share knowledge
• Excellent written and people skills and the ability to challenge constructively
• Effective team working and networking skills and the ability to work independently using own initiative
• Personal commitment to the corporate values and objectives of Wavin and a culture of continuous improvement
• Willingness to travel across the region and hold a valid full UK driving licence

Wavin offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Wavin!At Wavin, we encourage all our employees to develop their talent and to become the best version of themselves with great innovative programs. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Wavin is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organisation

Orbia’s Building and Infrastructure business Wavin is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, Wavin is advancing life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Wavin collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Wavin has 12,000+ employees around 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Wavin is a business of Orbia. A company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura) sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, with global headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $9.6 billion in revenue in 2022.

Contact us

If you have questions or you want to know more about the position, please contact our People Team via HR.UK@wavin.com. To apply, use the apply-button.

Acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated and unsolicited applications from third parties will not be accepted.