Duties/Responsibilities

Location: Manchester - UK wide travel when required, full driving license and own car essential - car allowance provided (North of Tamworth - Hybrid working available)

 Salary: £35,000 per annum + Car allowance DOE 

 Working hours: 7.30am – 4.30pm, Monday – Friday (40hrs per week)

 Benefits:, 25 Days Holiday + BH, Flex Benefits (EMCOR UK discount scheme)   

About EMCOR UK:  

At EMCOR UK, we revolutionise facilities management by combining our engineering heritage and innovation capability. We prioritise people in everything we do, collaborating closely with our customers to understand all their needs, from the big picture to day-to-day operations. Our purpose is to “create a better world at work”. Using our unique insight platform, "One Data World," we harness data-driven intelligence to make informed decisions, adapting our services to meet our customers’ evolving requirements. This allows us to cultivate an enhanced workplace experience for their teams whilst optimising efficiency, meticulously managing every asset, and minimising their impact on the planet. All supported by our commitment to safety, compliance, and assurance. Our partnering approach empowers our customers to shape a better future. Whether guiding their path to net zero or redeveloping their facilities for enhanced efficiency, we create better places for work whilst taking away the burden of facility operations, freeing up our customers to concentrate on their business. 

Role overview:   

As a Health & Safety Advisor you will work closely with the HSE Manager and all operational resources in ensuring and maintaining both corporate and legislative compliance by delivering all aspects of the Company’s IMS (Integrated Management System) comprising Health, Safety, Wellbeing, Environmental and Energy Management System policies, processes, procedures, guidance, communications & training.

You’ll use your knowledge and skills to promote a positive health, safety and wellbeing culture in the workplace providing advice and guidance to ensure all employers both internal and external third-party workers comply with legislation, safety policies and practices are adopted and adhered to.

This will include, but not limited to, undertaking and or supporting audits/inspections (Internal and or by external bodies), support continual improvement in the development of contract specific operating processes and procedures, preparing reports, statistics, data analysis, delivering presentations, driving positive leading indicators such as safety observation reporting, be there for life conversations and supporting the general all-round HSE compliance administration of the contract.

A critical aspect of the role is the safety leadership behaviours exhibited in setting the tone for our business. Application of a Just Culture approach is also essential to incident investigation and the proactive reporting of all incidents in a clear, factual & concise way to ensure accurate conclusions can be drawn to enable shared learning and prevent recurrence.

Duties/responsibilities/accountabilities/deliverables: 

• Prepare and present leading and lagging indicator statistics relevant to the development of the safety strategy.
• Advise and assist site and office-based staff on all aspects of the Company’s, Health & Safety Environmental and Energy Systems and procedures.
• Source, plan and deliver training to employees as required to recognised/acceptable standards.
• Continual promotion of the health and safety ethos and culture at all levels in the Company and Assess competence and engagement of staff and sub-contractors.
• Attend and contribute to health and safety meetings at site, regional and liaise with the Client and attend meetings as instructed.
• Contribute to and develop appropriate health and safety, as well as environmental initiatives as required.
• Review and develop where deemed required, internal RAMS and support site in the review of submitted subcontractor RAMS where appropriate. Along with the review of account specific COSHH assessments in compliance with H&S and legal obligations.
• Support and undertake regular positive observation reports, inspections, audits in keeping with an agreed programme across the account and report accordingly.
• Support the reporting and Investigation of all incidents, dangerous occurrences, ill health, wellbeing concerns and near misses. Identify opportunities for improvement and information sharing.
• Prepare and or distribute regular health and safety communications as required.
• Contribute to the development of operating procedures and other aspects of the Safety, Health, Environmental and Energy Management Systems through continuous improvement.
• Support the Coordination of training for HSE.
• Support/Input and administer data onto relevant corporate systems such as Intelex ensure actions are completed.
• Support the review of all compliance data and evidence held my sites in relation to compliance reporting via the complete suite of operational logbooks both electronic and site held.

Resource responsibilities: 

• No direct or indirect reports.
• Compliance required in relation to all corporate human resource and financial policies in relation to personal conduct and expenses incurred for example.
• Responsible for safe use and keeping of all equipment and assets supplied in support of the role.

Person Specification

Who you’ll be:  

You will ideally have previous experience and be fully conversant in advising on all aspects of H&S compliance in a facilities management (hard and soft), along with all construction related activity, across a mix of operational sites from offices to large industrial manufacturing settings.  

• The National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety - delivered by NEBOSH providing a good understanding of a broad range of health and safety issues. Or above.
• Experience in a similar HSE, wellbeing and energy related role and applicable systems.
• Auditing and regulatory compliance experience.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office and Databases.
• Excellent communication both written and verbal across all levels of internal and external interface.
• Experience in delivering presentations/training sessions.
• Calm professional and collaborative manner, but able to take firm accurate and timely decisions with attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal and customer relationship skills
• Knowledge of OHSAS 18001/45001, ISO 14001, ISO 9001 systems & their implementation.
• Professional Membership to IOSH (Tech IOSH/GRADIOSH) or above.
• Behavioural safety experience an advantage.

Other Factors: 

• Takes ownership and accountability and demonstrates core values such as honesty, commitment, loyalty, flexibility with a willingness to assume additional responsibilities in keeping with the requirements of the post where deemed required.
• Valid UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle essential for business travel between site locations, attending meetings and internal and external events.