HSE Advisor

Department: Health, Safety, Environment

Reporting To: Managing Director / General Manager & Director

Location: Andover, Hampshire

Contract: Permanent or Contract

Hours: Flexible; covering 15 - 24 hours per week

Salary: Up to £40,000pa on a pro-rata basis to reflect hours of work

Purpose of Role:

The purpose of the Health, Safety & Environment Advisor role is to ensure the compliance, communication, and day to day management of the company’s Health and Safety and Environment Management system and to ensure the safety of the company’s staff, suppliers, and visitors. You will lead the development and maintenance of the Health, Safety & Environmental (Primarily ISO45001 and ISO14001) aspects for the Company and such other schemes or programs which arise through Customer or market needs of the business.

 As HSE Advisor, you will provide day-to-day Health & Safety support for CIL through means such as; risk assessments, procedures, communications, safety inspections, induction training, safety observations, emergency procedures, accident investigations, and ensuring environmental compliance and sustainability.

Key accountabilities include, but are not limited to;

• Provide day-to-day Health & Safety support for CIL through means such as; risk assessments, procedures, communications, safety inspections, induction training, safety observations, emergency procedures, accident investigations, and ensuring environmental compliance and sustainability.
• Actively advise, lead, and execute solutions or recommendations for improvement of Health, Safety and Environmental activities across the business
• Ensure that CIL’s HSE legislative compliance is maintained across all sites.
• Identify and report H&S & Environmental Measures and KPI’s across the business
• Establish, develop, and maintain a formalised Environmental and Health and Safety Management system which addresses requirements deemed necessary for the organisation, inclusive of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001
• Develop, maintain, and actively promote the concept of Behavioural Safety within the Workplace and to perform the necessary training and reviews to fully engage the staff in their empowerment in a H&S culture.
• Establish, implement, and maintain an Environmental, Health and Safety Steering Committee and to communicate the findings to the senior management and all staff.
• Communicate the requirements of the respective standards to Senior Management and all employees ensuring that sound understandings of these requirements are maintained at all levels.
• Establish develop and maintain a full Risk Assessment and COSHH assessment programme that encompasses all current production practices and maintenance activities.
• Lead, advise, and train staff on Health & Safety practices, including refresher and induction training.
• Conduct HSE audits, inclusive of system audits, internal and external, and initiate improvement actions as identified and deemed necessary
• Ensure critical H&S deficiencies identified are qualified and reported in a timely manner and that actions for correction are clearly defined and employed.
• Ensure all potential risks to employees, agents and suppliers of products and services are identified and reported through the necessary channels, leading on actions to mitigate or improve on these
• Investigate and record accidents in the workplace.
• Carry out regular site inspections, ensuring policies and procedures are being properly implemented
• Carry out any other reasonable request which is for the benefit of the business.

Qualifications / Experience Required:

• Holds a NEBOSH International Certificate for Health & Safety Management or equivalent.
• Demonstratable experience in environmental compliance and sustainability
• Demonstrable experience from within as manufacturing environment
• Would be advantageous, but not a requirement, to have experience within an electronics or engineering environment
• Proven experience in a similar role, demonstrating a strong understanding of HSE legislation and best practices.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, data handling and analysis.
• Key skills will include influencing people, communication, problem solving, pragmatism and flexibility.

ABOUT US:

At Custom Interconnect we plan to succeed and never fail! Our values dictate that we have an unrivalled passion for providing the best Electronics Manufacturing Support on offer, with an honest and open attitude to business.
Our vision is to be customers’ first choice for the manufacture of mission critical, high technology electronics, adding value globally, and we are dedicated to delivering innovation and service excellence by investing in; design, build and fulfilment of our Customers Products.

Formed in 1987, as a company CIL have grown steadily to become one of the major Electronics Manufacturing Service companies available today.  Located in Andover, Hampshire, our 3 manufacturing facilities comprises 80,000sq ft of modern production space to meet our customers’ needs.