Health & Safety Officer

We have an exciting role within our Facilities team as a Health & Safety Officer! Within your role you will be focused upon ensuring health and safety is continuously developed, and that legal compliance is achieved throughout our business in UK.

This will be achieved by adopting a preventative and pro-active approach towards health and safety, ensuring departmental goals are achieved in line with the overall business strategy. You will also be responsible for the reporting, measurement and communication of H&S related data; subsequently recommending and implementing best practice across the business.

If you have excellent hands-on health and safety knowledge, as well as NEBOSH general certified, then what are you waiting for? Get your application in now and grasp this golden opportunity!

What you will be doing:

• Adopting a prevention approach towards health and safety, ensuring targets and goals are achieved
• Assessing risk and possible safety hazards of all aspects of operations which includes a manufacturing facility and a field-based team of engineers
• Creating corrective and preventative action plans
• Reporting, measuring, and communicating health and safety data
• Ensuring health and safety training takes place and is planned proactively
• Ensuring equipment maintenance schedule is adhered to from a health and safety perspective together with ordering repairs for unsafe and/or damaged equipment
• Carrying out internal audits of safety procedures
• Presenting safety principles to staff in meetings or training sessions
• Ensuring a personal and current knowledge of health and safety protocols, techniques and legislation is achieved
• Recommending and implementing new health and safety best practices
• Evaluating safety conditions and risks for the field-based engineers at customer locations in the UK
• Investigating causes of accidents
• Reviewing and reporting on the staff's compliance with health and safety rules and recommending commendations
• Review, create and audit RAMS
• Support the business in emergency incident
• Support the H&S and Facilities team with general administration and tasks as directed

What we’re looking for:

• Full UK Driving License
• Demonstrable experience in a health and safety role, with sound knowledge of best practices
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Risk assessment and RAMS
• Working knowledge of COSHH, Manual handling, working at height and DSE
• Capable administrator skilful at producing documents, spreadsheets, and reports
• A flexible team player with a positive can-do attitude and good organisational skills who can work on own initiative and deliver results
• Has a proactive and practical attitude to health and safety.
• Able to work under pressure with changing priorities
• A capable use of Microsoft Office including Excel, Power Point & Word

It would be advantageous if you have:

• Internal Auditing experience
• First Aid at Work qualification
• Environmental management experience
• Working knowledge of ISO standards

Why Microlise?

When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof-of-purchase solutions has probably been used. Our solutions deliver value to many of the UK’s leading grocery retailers and food logistics providers as well as to household names including JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose and Royal Mail.

Proudly Midlands-based, Microlise has been operating for over thirty years, and recently became a Publicly Listed Company with shares trading on the London Stock Exchange. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

• Full support and training to ensure you are well equipped to succeed in your role
• Access to our salary sacrifice EV Car Scheme - payments are made before tax and other contributions, so saving you money, whilst doing your bit for the environment!
• Great Place to Work certified – We have been recognised by the global authority on workplace culture, so come be a part of our success!
• Private medical insurance with Vitality Health including rewards for members such as: Free Amazon Prime, Apple Watch, discounted gym membership and many more!
• 25 days holiday, excluding bank holidays, increasing with service
• Invested in employee health and well-being with over 20 mental health first aiders in the business
• Employee Assistance Programmes
• Free Costco membership, 20% off EE mobile and line rental, and other local discounts
• Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts and annual staff awards
• Free Microlise Cresswell Racing Tickets, support British Superbikes
• Executive Box at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

Recruitment Process

For successful candidates, interviews will take place whilst the advert is still live, via telephone and video conferencing; so don’t delay getting your application in!

Recruitment Agencies

Whilst we make every effort to directly source candidates for our live roles, we do have a very small preferred supplier list on the occasion we may require additional support. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Managers. Any queries should be directed to jobs@microlise.com in the first instance.