Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor

Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor

Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Wrightbus, a fast-moving company with considerable growth in the last year, is seeking an HSE Advisor to assist the Health, Safety & Environmental Manager in developing and implementing management systems appropriate for Wrightbus, along with introducing, coordinating, managing, and controlling related strategies, policies, and procedures.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.

Key Tasks

• Achievement of individual and company objectives.
• Assist in the development of policies, systems and procedures as required and communication of same.
• Ensure compliance with H&S and environmental law and best practice.
• Establish and maintain safe systems of work for all activities.
• Develop a positive business culture and behaviour towards HSE, involving all employees.
• Assist with incident investigation.
• Increase and maintain employee and contractor awareness of HSE issues.
• Manage / action and report on required safety meetings.
• Provide guidance and advice to management.
• Assist with the completion/review of risk assessments.
• Maintain appropriate manual and electronic recording systems.
• Deliver training sessions on relevant HSE aspects.
• Ensure the proper management, corrective, and preventive actions for accidents across all sites, analysing group trends and root causes.
• Liaison with local authorities, e.g., HSE(NI), Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service.
• Assist other companies within Wrights Group in safety and environmental matters where appropriate and required.
• Undertake any other duties conducive with the effective operation of the post.

Requirements

• NEBOSH Certificate or higher-level environmental qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in a Health, Safety and Environmental role
• Incident investigation and reporting
• Audit and inspections
• Designing and implementing Health and Safety and Environmental policies and procedures
• Experience in developing and delivering training courses
• Proven organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Interpret Health and Safety and Environmental legislation into practical working arrangements.
• Computer literate – Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Life Insurance
• Discount with local businesses e.g. Galgorm Spa Resort and McAtamney’s.
• Free car parking
• Canteen
• Flexitime

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