Health And Safety Officer

Essential Site Solutions are looking for a Health & Safety Officer to join a very busy and ever-growing client of ours based in the Doncaster area. The Health & Safety Office will be reporting to the Chief Engineer and will be working full time from the Doncaster site.

The role for the Health & Safety Officer:

• You will be the go-to person for all matters regarding health, safety, and environmental issues on the site. You will need to be a solutions provider, not just someone who can highlight
• Coordinate site wide activities to ensure Health & safety compliance
• Create/update risk assessments, safe systems of work and safe working agreements/ conditions for contractors.
• Active safety auditing, reports, and statistical analysis for site
• Oversee multiple H&S statutes and schemes relating to food manufacturing/ slaughter.
• Work with associated safety-related documentation for site (e.g., labelling, packaging, customer/ supplier questionnaires, web-site content).
• Drive accountability for H&S downwards.
• The liaison points for the HSE and the Environment Agency.
• Manage health and safety for site and develop committee meetings.
• Accident analysis, investigations, and proactive prevention measures.
• Liaise with external parties (insurers/auditors/consultants/other stakeholders)
• Manage the delivery of training as required (or arrange specific external courses)
• Lead on all matters regarding environmental compliance.
• Experience of BRC audits and compliance.
• Other transferable work experience.

Desirable:

• Experience in a fast moving highly mechanised production environment highly desirable.
• Experience of the meat processing sector is beneficial.

Qualifications needed for the Health & Safety Officer:

• NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Safety & Health or keen to obtain this.
• Proven track record in health and safety management in a food / FMCG manufacturing environment.
• Right to work in the UK and Should be above 18 Years

Skills needed for the Health & Safety Officer:

• Strong numeracy, writing and content delivery.
• Excellent interpersonal skills/good communicator.
• Be visible across the site and engage well with all staff.
• Ability to act professionally and discreetly.
• Ability to multi-task and manage own workload.
• Flexible - able to work under pressure and handle multiple projects.
• Excellent attention to detail.