EHS Advisor Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire The role: We are looking for an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Advisor to help create a workplace where everyone leaves and returns safe, healthy and well. This role plays a key part in shaping and strengthening our safety culture within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You’ll partner with leaders and colleagues across the business to proactively identify and manage risks, influence behaviours, and drive continuous improvement in EHS practices. Working closely with the EHS Manager, you’ll be visible on the shop floor, building trusted relationships and ensuring that safety, environmental and wellbeing standards are embedded in everything we do. Key responsibilities: Support and evolve a positive safety culture, encouraging learning from incidents and focusing on system improvements rather than blame Advise managers and employees on EHS policies, systems and compliance with ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards Conduct audits, inspections and risk assessments (e.g. PUWER, COSHH, manual handling), identifying improvements and ensuring actions are completed Lead on incident, accident and near-miss investigations, ensuring learnings are captured and shared Analyse trends and KPIs, providing insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders Deliver or coordinate EHS training, including inductions and behavioural safety initiatives Engage with stakeholders across the business to influence and embed best practice Proactively participate in shop-floor activities (e.g. GEMBAs) to observe, coach and support teams Support environmental initiatives and ensure targets are achieved across the site Collaborate with external bodies including auditors and regulatory organisations Play an active role in continuous improvement and behavioural-based safety programmes Your experience: Previous experience in an EHS role within a manufacturing, engineering or heavy industry environment Experience conducting risk assessments and leading incident investigations Strong understanding of ISO standards (45001, 14001, 50001) Comfortable working within a hands-on, shop-floor environment Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent) Knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental legislation and its application Desirable: Experience of behavioural safety and culture change initiatives Environmental or sustainability knowledge/qualifications (e.g. IEMA) Experience auditing ISO standards Your skills: Strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels Proactive and solutions-focused mindset, with a continuous improvement approach Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to prioritise workload and deliver within tight timeframes High attention to detail and commitment to compliance and best practice Team-oriented, with a genuine passion for health, safety and wellbeing Confident in coaching, mentoring and challenging behaviours where needed The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra. Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included. Benefits You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below. Everyone is Included at Spirax Group We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments. We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.