Role: Health & Safety Advisor
Location: Various locations across Yorkshire & Midlands
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 8:15am - 4:45pm, Monday to Friday
The Opportunity
As the Health & Safety Advisor, you will have a firm understanding of the construction industry, with the main responsibility of undertaking safety inspections on all active sites on a monthly basis. You will audit against the health and safety policy, relevant legislation, and best practice within the industry. You will be responsible for producing reports and assisting the site teams to close out any actions that have arisen in a timely manner.
You will be responsible for continuing to embed the positive Health and Safety culture across our sites, including building strong relationships with the site and operational teams and ensuring compliance through training, coaching and mentoring of colleagues. You will support the Group Head of Health & Safety with any projects which contribute to the overall departmental aims and objectives.
Who we are
We are a modern family business over 100 years’ experience designing and building quality, contemporary new homes. You’d think being over 100 years old that we’d be set in our ways, always doing what we’ve always done right? Wrong.
We are a unique brand synonymous with contemporary design, innovative marketing, and exemplary levels of customer service. From the house type range, the web-driven sales process, to the show home experience and personalisation options coupled with absolute adherence to quality: we are truly focused on exceeding customer expectations. Our team are always looking for ways to improve, innovate, and challenge the norm. You’ll have heard this before, but here you aren’t just a number, and we can prove it. We’re really proud to have been certified as a “Great Place to Work”, ranking #38 in Best Places to work for Wellbeing, #58 in Best Workplaces for Development, #30 in Best Workplaces for Women and #34 in the Best Workplaces list. So it goes without saying, we have something special. You’ll work in a place where your uniqueness is cherished, your development is championed, and you’re given all of the tools you’ll need to flourish. You’ll join a team with a vision to become the market leading customer experience home builder underpinned by our sustainability and social purpose credentials.
Responsibilities of the role
* Have an in depth knowledge of the companies Health and Safety policies and procedures.
* Undertake monthly (or as required) site safety inspections both where Strata are the Principal Contractor and / or Client under the CDM Regulations.
* Ensuring the company is legally compliant with all health and safety legislation and keeping up to date with any legislative changes.
* Investigate and report (where required) to the Group Head of Health and Safety all potential RIDDOR, accidents, incidents and near misses.
* Ensuring the relevant HSE advice, support, guidance and management is communicated to the site teams.
* Review Principal Contractors Construction Phase Plans (CPP) where Strata are the client.
* Keeping up to date with industry best practice.
* Liaising with relevant external regulatory / enforcement authorities (HSE / EA etc).
* Responsibility to ensure that employees receive the relevant training, coaching and mentoring to manage, monitor and improve the health and safety standards in the workplace.
* Championing and driving a positive health and safety ethos/attitude throughout the company.
* To promote best practice and lessons learnt through the relevant communication channels.
* Ensuring active measures are used to prevent ill health throughout the business.
What’s in it for you?
* Is Laughing Yoga or flower arranging for you? Maybe a climbing wall or fitness classes are more your thing. You’ll find out at our wellbeing mornings, where we all down tools and try new activities as a team in our Support Office. From mocktail making to pottery painting, there’s something for everyone.
* A personalised health report annually from our partner Champion Health.
* Dedicated time for you to spend on your own development with our personal development days and access to a whole host of content through My Development Portal.
* Access to our partner platform Benefex, which gives you access to purchase a whole host of discounted benefit options via salary sacrifice such as dental plans, pension salary sacrifice, PMI, gym memberships, cycle to work schemes plus many more.
* Financial support when you are ill, with a generous company sick pay scheme.
* Your health needs covered with level 1 Westfield Health cover for you and dependent children.
* The encouragement to take a well-earned break with a holiday allowance of 26 days plus the usual public holidays, and the added flexibility to purchase up to 5 extra days each year through our holiday purchase scheme.
* A Strata Group Fund pension scheme with a minimum contribution from you of 3% and we’ll contribute 6%. This rises to a member contribution of 4% and we’ll contribute 7% for anyone 40 or over.
* Death in service benefit of a minimum 4x basic salary.
* The opportunity to work flexibly in a way that works for you (role dependent).
* A whole host of Fundraising, Volunteering and Social events to get involved in
Are you the brick to our mortar?
Then Join Us!