Health & Safety Officer
Location: Beccles, GB
Department: Environment Health and Safety
Full-time or Part-time: Full-Time
Job Type: Employee
Shift: On site
About The Role
You’re an innovative thinker, passionate about the planet and eager to play a role in creating sustainable packaging that keeps the world healthy, fed and working. You’ll be assisting in maintaining the Health, Safety and Environmental processes on site. This will involve liaising with managers and staff to provide an advisory service, using knowledge and skills to support the EHS Manager in promoting a positive safety culture in the workplace.
You will report to the Health and Safety Manager and the working hours are Monday‑Thursday 8am‑5pm and Friday 8am‑4pm, 39 hours per week.
Key Job Accountabilities
- Delegate for EHS Manager in their absence.
- Environmental Monitoring and Measurement.
- Help maintain the Company’s Risk Assessment, Safe Systems of Work and COSHH systems.
- Safety Performance KPI reporting.
- Prepare monthly reports.
- Assist the Health and Safety Manager with accident/incident investigations.
- Carry out Environmental/Safety auditing and inspections, monitoring and measuring on a regular basis.
- Prepare and conduct HSE Training and projects throughout the business.
- Have working knowledge of the control of hazardous and general waste management systems.
- Assist departments with raising the standard of training documentation to ensure audit and legal compliance.
- Support departments with EHS activities – SSOW/RA/Best Practices.
The post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description. The particular duties and responsibilities attached to the post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and would not themselves justify the re‑evaluation of the post.
Qualifications / Requirements
- NEBOSH Health and Safety and Environmental Certificates or equivalent IOSH Qualification.
- Self‑motivated, able to manage a varied workload and work to a schedule.
- Able to respond quickly to incidents and take appropriate action to assure team members of their safety.
- Initiative to work on your own or as part of a team.
- Able to speak confidently to others (and groups), participating in a range of meetings and delivering presentations.
- Good understanding of task‑based risk assessments and relevant supporting training documentation.
- Competent in the use of the Microsoft suite of applications.
- Able to work in an environment that would have constant changing priorities.
- Excellent listening skills.
- Be self‑organised, flexible, able to prioritise own workloads and have good skills with the control of documentation.
