Overview Ltd.
Environmental, Health and Safety and Quality Officer
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EHSQ Officer
We are looking for a proactive and detail-focused EHSQ Officer to help develop, maintain and continuously improve our Environmental, Health, Safety and Quality standards. This is a varied and hands-on role with a strong focus on the day-to-day management, auditing and optimisation of our Integrated Management System, ensuring continued compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
You will play a key role in translating regulatory and certification requirements into practical, effective processes that support operational excellence across the business. This is an opportunity to make a visible impact in a role where safety, quality, environmental performance and continuous improvement are central to business success. You will work cross-functionally, support meaningful improvements and help shape practical systems that make it easier for teams to do the right thing every day.
Please note: As we work in the Defence & Security industry, all roles will be subject to BPSS checks as a minimum and may be subject to SC clearance, meaning a minimum requirement of 5 years' residency in the UK.
What you’ll be doing
Environmental Management
- Manage environmental compliance, including legal registers, permits, and adherence to applicable regulations (e.g. RoHS, REACH), ensuring all requirements are maintained within the IMS.
- Monitor and report environmental performance (e.g. waste, energy, recycling, carbon footprint), driving initiatives to reduce environmental impact and support sustainability objectives.
- Conduct periodic evaluations of compliance with applicable environmental legislation and maintain documented evidence of compliance status, escalating any gaps to management.
Health and Safety Management
- Conduct and review risk assessments (internal and external) and Job Safety Analyses (JSA).
- Lead investigations into near-misses and incidents, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures to mitigate future risks.
- Promote a proactive safety culture through training and employee engagement.
- Ensure complete alignment with local occupational health and safety legislation and statutory requirements, including the use of correct PPE and ESD requirements.
- Conduct routine site inspections and safety walks to proactively identify hazards, ensure compliance, and implement corrective actions.
- Support emergency preparedness and business continuity activities, including drills and testing.
- Monitor and report H&S performance metrics, driving continuous improvement.
Quality Assurance
- Act as the primary custodian of the IMS, ensuring all processes, procedures, and policies are documented, updated, and aligned with ISO 9001 and ISO14001.
- Manage key compliance systems such as calibration control and ESD protection, ensuring adherence to operational and customer requirements.
- Continuously evaluate the IMS to simplify user interaction, eliminate procedural bottlenecks, and drive digitalisation of quality data records.
- Plan and conduct internal audits, managing NCRs, root cause analysis, and CAPA to closure.
- Assist with IQC/ OQC, MRB, including managing suppliers' quality performance.
Training, Communication and Continuous Improvement
- Deliver HSEQ inductions and training, ensuring employee awareness and accountability for EHSQ responsibilities.
- Promote effective use of the IMS across the organisation.
- Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives using data analysis and structured problem-solving tools.
- Manage and maintain environmental compliance requirements, including legal registers, permits and applicable regulations such as RoHS and REACH.
- Monitor and report environmental performance, including waste, energy, recycling and carbon footprint data, while supporting sustainability initiatives.
- Conduct and review risk assessments, Job Safety Analyses, site inspections and safety walks to identify hazards and drive corrective action.
- Lead investigations into incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures.
- Promote a positive safety culture through effective training, engagement and communication across the organisation.
- Act as a key custodian of the Integrated Management System, ensuring processes, procedures and policies remain accurate, accessible and aligned with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
- Plan and carry out internal audits, manage non-conformances, support root cause analysis and ensure corrective and preventative actions are closed effectively.
- Support compliance systems including calibration control, ESD protection, IQC/OQC, MRB activity and supplier quality performance.
- Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives using data analysis and structured problem-solving tools.
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About you
You will be confident working in a similar EHSQ role, ideally within an engineering, production or technical workshop environment. You will be comfortable interpreting UK legislation and compliance information, and you will have the communication skills needed to influence colleagues at all levels.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
- Proven experience in a similar EHSQ role and working environment.
- Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
- Awareness of health, safety, environmental and quality requirements within an engineering or production workshop setting.
- Ability to work proactively, manage your own workload and champion a positive, practical H&S culture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage people across the business.
- Ability to read, understand and act on UK legislation and wider compliance requirements.
- Strong digital capability, including Microsoft Office and Visio, with the ability to create reports, track KPIs and map workflows.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Working knowledge of ISO 45001 or a NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent.
- Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.
- Experience supporting or participating in Certification Body audits.
- Experience using ERP systems such as Priority or similar.
Why Work for us?
We are an exciting, growing company committed to excellence and innovation. We greatly value the hard work, ingenuity and integrity of our team. We provide an environment for rapid personal development.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (increasing with service) 🏝️
- Employee discount platform 💰
- EAP & online GP🩺
- Early Finish Friday 🎉
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme 💰
- BUPA Medical Insurance & Cashback plan 🏥
- Flexible start & finish times & hybrid working (role dependent) ⏰
- Cycle to work scheme & Rail season ticket loan 🚲🚂
- Company-funded professional subscriptions (up to £250 per year) 🎓
- Personal development supported 🎓
- Free refreshments, fruit and snacks 🍪🍌🍏
- Free Parking 🚗
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What we do.
Overview, a rapidly growing UK SME, develops and manufactures market-leading Autonomous Sensors Systems and Integrated Servo Drives for global markets.
Overview’s Intelligent Autonomous Sensors Systems (Pods) use multiple sensors and sophisticated edge intelligence to autonomously provide users with actionable digital information. Pods can autonomously detect, classify, alert users and track targets of interest, all at machine speed. Developed for use in critical domains such as defence, surveillance, security, emergency response and counter-UAS, applications include ground-based solutions and those mounted on manned and autonomous vehicles.
Overview’s expertise includes the development and manufacture of innovative, precision, brushless, Integrated Servo Drives. These Integrated Servo Drives are sold to a rapidly growing global customer base for a range of exacting positioning applications and used by Overview in the development of Sensor Systems.
Technology leadership is core to Overview’s strategy and is underpinned by the investment of more than 20% of turnover in R&D. Specialist capabilities exist in motor design and control, mechanics, electronics, embedded software, AI/ML and sensor integration, plus systems engineering.
Overview is committed to growing exceptional business value through customer focus and providing a leading capability to rapidly define and develop unique, innovative, and market-leading products.
Our Values
Overview’s operations and reputation are based on the following company Values and Behaviours. These Values and Behaviours, consistently applied, make us what we are and are a key element of the value that we bring to our customers.
- Work together to Win Together
- Creativity and Innovation
- Integrity and Respect
- Customer Focus
- Continuous Improvement
- Positive Impact
The Process
Most of our interviews will take place over one or two stages, typically a phone/teams interview followed by a face-to-face interview on-site. We do ask all candidates who are coming to a face-to-face interview to carry out a short Psychometric assessment to help us understand how you tick!
If you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments to our process, we are happy to discuss this to see what we can do. We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.
Please note that this is a UK-based role, and therefore, employment will be subject to satisfactory right-to-work and reference checks.
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to apply as soon as possible.
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