Senior HSQ&E Advisor

Location

Dartford, Kent | United Kingdom

Job description

We are seeking a senior HSQ&E Advisor to join our team. The role will be based either at our office in Dartford, Kent or at our Head Office in Forest Row, with Hybrid working available. The majority of our workload is based in the Kent and South East London areas, however, we are happy to consider applications from candidates applying from further afield who are happy to combine travel with some home working.

Rydon has established a strong reputation for the quality within our maintenance and new-build sectors. For over 40 years, we've recruited talented and innovative people to build award winning developments as well as maintain homes, hospitals and other healthcare buildings. Rydon Maintenance has successfully been providing a range of hard facilities management and property maintenance services to a variety of clients, predominantly in the housing and healthcare sectors. Our experience has taken us across a variety of sensitive healthcare environments, including specialist mental healthcare facilities, community hospitals and rehabilitation units. We currently provide maintenance services to over 300 buildings for 20 Trusts.

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We are seeking a Senior HSQ&E Advisor to join the Rydon Group to support our approach to safety, health, environment, and quality. In this role you will be providing support to our specialist Maintenance Business which focuses on providing planned, responsive and preventative maintenance to residential/housing and healthcare facilities. 

We take an active approach to promoting safety, health and environmental matters. As such, the role is designed to consistently promote safe ways of working to our teams, whilst championing our commitment to reducing the environmental impact of work undertaken across our portfolio. 

Key areas of focus include: 

• Carry out site safety audits & inspections, reviewing health and safety issues, addressing and implementing change as required.
• Promote a positive Health and Safety culture throughout the business and promote Health & Safety best practice, campaigns and innovation.
• Assist with training staff and suppliers on company best practice and assist with the development and implementation of improvements to our systems and processes.
• Ensure activities observed are carried out in accordance with the current legislation and industry best practice. Keeping abreast of any changes to legislation, and best practices in our industry sector.
• Advise and assist in the identification of hazards and the preparation of risk assessments and safety method statements.
• Assist with investigating HSQ&E Events as requested to identify root causes and contributory factors to prevent recurrence
• Where appropriate attend meetings with subcontractors and clients demonstrating and reinforcing company Safety procedures.

Overall, the role will contribute to the Group's HSQ&E Strategy, ensuring that as the business grows, we continue to apply the same standards.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive starting salary.
• A car allowance of £4,872 per annum.
• 25 days holiday with the ability to increase up to 30 days.
• Access to an employee discount scheme which includes a wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, lifestyle goods and services.
• Company pension, life assurance and income protection
• Flexible benefits for you to choose from including Critical Illness, DenPlan and Cycle to work schemes.
• Health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, access to an Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme, BUPA Health & Wellbeing Plans, access to our Health and Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more

This position is offered on a permanent full time basis. Working hours are 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 8:30am-5pm.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience gained as a Health, Safety and Environmental Advisor. This experience will have ideally been gained with a maintenance contractor. 

The successful candidate will have;

• Minimum GRAD IOSH
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• NVQ Diploma Level 5 in Occupational Health and Safety Practice (or working towards)
• NEBOSH Fire certificate or similar preferred
• IEMA Certification or similar preferred
• Internal auditor qualifications for 9001, 14001 and or 45001 would be advantageous
• A full UK driving license

If your qualifications don't quite match we are open and happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

Rydon is a friendly and people-focused business, and the preferred candidate will have strong people and communication skills, have an eye for detail and a track record of delivering to deadlines with a high degree of accuracy.

If you have the above skills and experienced, we would strongly encourage you to apply. 

As a well established, progressive company we are committed to attracting and retaining individuals by offering an excellent benefits package that includes a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

Rydon is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity in employment. Successful candidates will be selected solely on their ability to carry out the duties of the post.

To apply online, please use the 'apply for this job link' at the top of this page.

Our application process is very straight forward allowing you to apply with a CV (from your Computer or Dropbox), LinkedIn, Facebook or Google+ and should take no more than a few short minutes. 

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