Health, Safety & Environment Advisor
Monday to Friday40
hours per weekPermanent Site based, Lanark
£35,000 - £40,000 DOE
Are you a
driven individual, ready for a new challenge? Are you looking to work for
a growing and ambitious brand? If so, we have an opportunity for a HSE Advisor
to join our team.
About the Role:
The HSE Advisor will in
conjunction with the wider operations team, set and drive Border’s health and
safety strategy ensuring Border is a safe place to work by promoting and
driving a safety-first culture at all levels. The HSE Advisor will also drive
Border’s environmental strategy in alignment with Company purpose and Corporate
Social Responsibility Strategy.
Key duties:
- Support Operations through development,
embedding and promotion of health, safety and environmental standards
within the Company and implementing and maintaining Company HSE, policies,
procedures, standards and working practices ; enhancing the safety culture
within the business ensuring a focus towards zero accidents and injury
- To ensure the Health, Safety and
Environmental Policy and supporting procedures are implemented
consistently across the Company
- To monitor, evaluate and review Health
and Safety policy and practices, make recommendations and amend as
required
- To advise on the implications of current
and emerging health and safety legislation, including evaluating options,
making recommendations, and generating action plans to ensure compliance
across the Company
- Develop and deliver in-house training
with managers and employees on all relevant aspects of health and safety
- Ensure the HSE function provide the
required expertise to all areas of the business, with a focus on
continuous improvement
- Work within all business areas to ensure
HSE standards are appropriately implemented within their areas of control
and are sufficiently robust for anticipated demands
- Provide input for regular HSE
communications for all levels of staff to include written information,
toolbox talks and management briefs
- Support CSR strategy and appropriate actions.
What Are We Looking For?
- Hold a minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.
- Experience of working in a similar role within a FMCG/Manufacturing
environment.
- String working experience of H&S and environmental systems and
legislation such as ISO45001/ISO 14001
- Strong & confident communicator and good stakeholder management
skills.
- Promotes positive workplace culture, inspiring and influencing
others.
- Excellent numeracy, analytical & problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively
- Passion for continuous improvement
About Border
At
Border, we are a family run business who, since 1984, have been making
Beautifully Crafted Biscuits. We are a leading supplier of premium biscuits
based in Scotland, and we produce the number one chocolate ginger biscuit in
the UK. Our amazing biscuits are produced for many major supermarkets,
retailers and businesses not only in the UK, but internationally.
We
believe that biscuits are one of life’s little pleasures…and are our greatest
passion. We believe biscuits should be nothing short of exceptional and we are
proud to make ours just that.
In
our Lanark factory, we have a team of approx. 180 people who have a passion for
achieving outstanding quality, whether they are sourcing ingredients, weighing,
mixing, baking or packing.
Pride
and the desire to make something good are essential ingredients in everything
we do but we also know that a truly excellent company should strive to be a
force for the benefit of our society and planet. We believe that our biscuits
are a Recipe for Good and we donate 10% of our profits to good causes in our
local community every year.