Health & Safety Advisor
🌍 Multi-site role with a mix of site-based and remote / hybrid working
💰 Up to £40,000pa
⏰ Mon – Fri - 9:00 - 5:30 (40 hours)
📓 Your Role's Purpose
Rygor Group is looking for a practical and proactive Health & Safety Advisor to support our multi-site operations. This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone who enjoys being visible on site, building relationships with managers and technicians, and helping embed a positive, proportionate safety culture across the business.
As Health & Safety Advisor, you will act as a key point of contact for health and safety across the business, providing practical, on-site support, advice, and guidance to site teams. You will work closely with managers across the company’s 20+ locations to ensure risks are understood and managed effectively, while supporting compliance with UK health and safety legislation and internal standards.
💡Where You’ll Add Value
Rewarding
* Add value on a daily basis by supporting managers and technicians with practical, hands‑on health and safety advice that enables them to work confidently and safely
* Contribute to a positive working environment by supporting training, briefings, and continuous learning, helping people feel supported rather than policed
* Encourage proactive behaviours such as near‑miss reporting and good housekeeping, reinforcing a culture where people are recognised for doing the right thing
Reliable
* Maintain consistent safety standards across sites through regular visits, inspections, and safety checks, ensuring risks are identified and managed before incidents occur
* Support sites with robust risk management and safe systems of work, particularly for vehicle maintenance and repair, lifting equipment (LOLER), and hazardous substances (COSHH)
* Provide dependable support during incident and near‑miss investigations, including root cause analysis, follow‑up actions, and RIDDOR reporting where required
* Strengthen compliance and assurance through site audits, preparation for external inspections, and ongoing improvement of ISO management systems (ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001)
Respectful
* Build trusted relationships with site teams by engaging confidently and constructively with managers and technicians at all levels
* Take a proportionate, practical approach to health and safety that respects operational realities while maintaining high standards
* Promote environmental responsibility through safe management of waste oils, chemicals, and materials, supporting both people and the wider environment
⚙️ Skills & Behaviours Required for this Role:
* NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
* Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle, with willingness to travel regularly between sites
* Experience working in an operational, multi‑site environment
* Practical understanding of risk assessments, safe systems of work, and incident investigation, including RIDDOR reporting
* Confident, approachable, and able to engage positively with managers and technicians at all levels
* Practical and hands‑on, with a proportionate approach to health and safety
* Self‑motivated and proactive, comfortable managing own workload independently
* Clear communicator, able to handle incidents and challenging conversations calmly and professionally
* Fair, consistent, and respectful, building trust and credibility across sites
* Focused on learning, continuous improvement, and positive safety culture
* Experience within automotive, workshop, or engineering environments and knowledge of ISO standards (9001, 14001, 45001) would be advantageous
* Demonstrates Rygor’s values of being Rewarding, Reliable, and Respectful in day‑to‑day work
💙 Our Values & Behaviours
We’re looking for incredible team members who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals. You can read more about our values and the behaviours on our website.
🏆Rewarding
I am grateful. I am courageous. I am curious.
✔️Reliable
I am honest. I am attentive. I am trustworthy.
🤝Respectful
I am inclusive. I am resilient. I am kind.
💼 Application & Interview Support
If you need support with your job application, we encourage you to explore our new Career Hub—a free resource designed to help you reach your career goals. The Career Hub offers valuable guidance on crafting standout applications, excelling in interviews, and providing support for those re-entering the workforce. Additionally, you can watch, and practice example interviews to ensure you’re fully prepared to ace yours! You can access the site here.
Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. As long as you are experienced for the role and hold the necessary qualifications, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t feel like you meet all our requirements. We want to know about your passions, achievements, learning and growth. If this role excites you, start a conversation with us!
🥳 Benefits for you
* An extra day off for your Birthday
* 23 days of annual leave per year PLUS Bank Holidays
* Four times death in service benefit.
* Internal Mentorship programme
* Working for WhatVan?’s ‘Van Dealer of the Year 2026’.
* Working for Motor Trader’s ‘Employer of the Year’.
* Working for an official Great Place to Work™️
* Working for a workplace which champions women.
* Awarded Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award (RLS)
* Working with our award-winning team – several of our team were recogniosed at the MT WIMT awards and we won silver at the internal communication and engagement awards for our new starter onboarding process.
* Auto-enrolment pension.
* Self-development journal
* Rygor Group Ranked 101 in SW Business Insider’s Top 500 Companies
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay policies and return to work post mat-leave policy.
* Access to our wellness programme and Employee Assistance Programmes, including WeCare from Canada Life (EAP and 24HR Online GP access and second Medical Opinion).
* Mental Health First Aiders.
* Reward and recognition programmes, including our annual Rygor Group Awards and opportunities to attend the Rygor Wembley box as a celebration of your hard work and dedication.
* Annual appraisals programme and progression opportunities.
* Manufacturer training and access to our in-house training.
* Long service recognition and annual leave increase after 5 years’ service.
* Rygor Auto and Rygor Service Solutions are Maintenance Provision Rating Scheme (MPRS) accredited
* Branded uniform
* Charities of the Year programme, Army Sport sponsors and community engagement initiatives
✅ Hiring Process
* 🗎 We shortlist CVs online, so make sure to include information about yourself that makes you stand out
* 📞 A short screening call with our hiring manager or a member of our people team
* 🚶🏾 Come to site and meet the team, have a tour, and let’s have a chat so we can get to know each other better
* 🫱🏿🫲🏻 If your application is successful, we’ll be excited to make you an offer
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
At Rygor, we are committed to fostering a workplace culture that champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. As an award-winning organisation, we are proud to be a community of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that individuality should be celebrated, and we strive to ensure that every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome and support people of all ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, sexual orientations, disability statuses, caring responsibilities, and neurodiverse profiles. We actively promote an inclusive environment where you can bring your authentic self to work every day, because we know that when you thrive, so does our business
Support
If you need to make reasonable adjustments to our process, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make the adjustments that may be needed.
DBS: Please be advised that successful applicants to Rygor or any of our associated businesses, may be subject to satisfactory completion of a DBS check prior to joining the business.