Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Officer

Job Title: Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Officer

Location: Corpach, Fort William (travelling will be required for this post).

Salary: circa £38,500, depending on experience and qualifications.

Job type: Full-time. 40 hours per week. Monday to Friday. 8am to 5pm. Flexibility is required to meet the needs of the business.

About the role:

• Responsible for the monitoring of Health & Safety of operations throughout the entire business, covering transport, port and warehousing activities and interfacing with the marine department on port and shipping aspects;
• Must keep up to date with relevant legislation;
• Ensure the company policies relating to Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) are complied with and upheld at all times;
• Ensure that other relevant company and department policies and procedures are complied with and upheld at all times;
• Travel, overnight stays and overtime, including weekend work, will be required at times due to the nature of the business.

About you:

• NEBOSH qualified with a background in Health & Safety;
• Knowledge of MS Office, PowerPoint, Outlook;
• Confident, professional manner;
• Strong organisational skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Excellent attention to detail including proof-reading skills;
• The ability to think ahead and regularly cope with new/unexpected circumstances and tight deadlines.

Main Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the day to day running of the SHEQ department;
• Undertake safety inspections of all depots/yards within Ferguson Transport premises (including Kishorn, Invergordon and Grangemouth);
• Interface with our port and pier operations and with our DPA for marine and port activities;
• Keep abreast of any changes or amendments to SHEQ or Corporate Social Responsibilities legislation and communicate these too staff members when required;
• Undertake annual audits of the Health & Safety inspections;
• Review risk assessments and Health & Safety policy annually;
• Make up new risk assessments and method statements when required;
• Log and file housekeeping sheets from different departments;
• Prepare new safety/working procedures for all aspects of the business when required;
• Create safe working procedures booklets for transport/shipping and keep up to date;
• Log, file and follow up and incident reports and hazard reports;
• Log and follow up unsafe behaviour reports/safety action cards and liaise with managers and HR;
• Organise and monitor PAT testing;
• Organise and monitor Fire Safety – including regular drills and reviews of the various fire risk assessments;
• Organise various Health & Safety training;
• Provide support to managers for Health & Safety matters;
• Ensure that accreditations such as SQAS / FIAS are kept up to date and any audit work that may be associated with this;
• Audit various parts of the business to ensure compliance with SHEQ and CSR;
• Provide internal training or memos where required to educate employees on Health & Safety issues;
• Monitor and keep up the quality management and assurance schemes already in place;
• Any other tasks as assigned by management;
• Ensure that you conduct yourself in a business like and professional manner at all times;
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise your workload;
• Ability to ensure confidentiality is adhered to at all times.

Benefits:

• Competitive rates of pay & overtime rates for weekend working;
• 28 days paid leave per annum (pro-rata), enhanced with service;
• Loyalty bonus payment scheme;
• Employer contributory pension scheme;
• Occupational health surveillance;
• Group life assurance;
• Employee assistance programme.

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Environmental Officer, HSE Officer, Document Control Officer, Health and Safety Officer, Safety Officer, Safety Advisor, Safety Officer, HSE Advisor, Health and Safety Assistant, SHEQ Manager, Health and Safety Manager, Quality Assurance Coordinator, Quality Advisor, Health and Safety Coordinator, SHEQ Officer, SHEQ Advisor, Document Handler, Document Management, Document Flow Quality Development Coordinator, Quality Coordinator, Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance Inspector, QA Inspector, Continuous Improvement, Improvement Inspector, Quality Overseer, may also be considered for this role.