Are you a Health & Safety professional, looking for an excellent career move into a growing UK company (100+ staff) in the scientific & bio research environment?
If so, we have a great role for a Health & Safety Officer, looking to grow their career into Health & Safety Manager & beyond!
Working closely with the Head of Facilities management, you’ll own the H&S piece across 2 sites – so a car & valid Licence is essential for the role.
Job title: Health & Safety Officer.
Location: North of Cambridge. Good commutes from St Ives, Ely, Cambridge, Huntington, March, down from Peterborough etc. We offer a hybrid working environment: 2 days in office work & 3 days from your home office, with flexibility of course to suit you, or workload requirements.
Salary: ~£40K Basic + Benefits package
The role:
- Perform and review H&S risk assessments to cover in-house activities at all sites (currently 2), and perform or arrange, fire safety risk assessments and water risk assessments, etc.
- Review, and support with, the writing of COSHH assessments relating to use of chemicals, reagents and solvents used across sites.
- Work with the Biological Safety Officer (BSO) to ensure safe practices in activities involving biological material and assess the competence of persons to work safely.
- Ensure all staff are adequately trained in H&S, including essential H&S onboarding, first aiders, fire wardens etc.
- And the usual H&S activities! Chair H&S meetings with FM, write & review H&S policies, audit & benchmark against best practice, etc.
Experience you’d bring:
- A good understanding of H&S legislation, including COSHH regulations.
- Understanding of the legal framework surrounding use of biological materials (e.g. GMO (Contained Use) regulations, SAPO, ACDP guidance etc.) is desirable but not essential.
- Experience working in laboratory environments is essential
- Holds a H&S qualification, such as IOSH or NEBOSH. (Either one)
We’d love to hear from you – please apply now for a speedy response