Health & Safety Advisor

We are recruiting for a Health & Safety Advisor for a leading Aerospace organisation based on site in Filton.Role Overview - Currently we are looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to join the UK Environment Health and Safety team based at Filton, Bristol.As a Health and Safety Advisor you will support and enable the business to create an inclusive, values-driven and engaging working environment with the highest safety standards.Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of EHS UK policy for occupational health and safety management
• Provide professional and pragmatic support for the business, helping to drive improvements on a day to day basis
• Assist the business to prevent injury, ill health and loss, ensuring the organisation reduces its accident and incident rates
• Ensure all accidents and incidents in the business area are reported and appropriately investigated, and all necessary improvement actions recorded and tracked to completion
• Assist the business to identify potential hazards that could lead to injury, ill health and loss by actively supporting the risk assessment process whilst also ensuring the control and management of risks within the work environment
• Undertake periodic compliance audits and other appropriate monitoring activities
• Assist the business with development of tools and processes to support effective health and safety management, compliance, data capture and reporting
• Maintain a local meeting structure to ensure effective communication and consultation with internal stakeholders

Skill SetEssential

• Minimum NEBOSH Occupational Health and Safety Certificate level H&S qualification
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role reporting to and working with key stakeholders in a dedicated safety advisor role
• First-hand experience of formal risk assessment techniques
• Relevant experience in engineering, manufacturing and technical working environments
• A considerate team player who also has the ability to work autonomously on their own initiative with a positive attitude, with good communication skills, whilst working to the expected company behaviours
• A clear understanding of the pragmatic and practical application of health and safety standards
• Good working knowledge of office IT systems and software

Desirable

• Experience of machinery safety and / or Construction Design & Management
• Occupational Hygiene knowledge (advantage)
• Accident investigation and root cause analysis

This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35.