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Health and Safety Advisor – Stoke Depot
Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor who can go beyond compliance? Act as a visible presence on site to influence behaviours, challenge decisions, and embed a proactive safety culture as part of our values?
If you thrive in a site-based leadership role, partnering with operational and senior teams to shape culture, build capability, and drive Health & Safety (H&S) performance—while supporting wider site needs—GXO wants to hear from you.
About the Role
Location
Based in our Stoke depot, supporting our customer Sainsbury’s.
Contract Details
- Full-time, permanent position
- Contracted hours: 40 per week (Monday to Friday, 08:00 – 16:30), with flexibility required for business needs.
Salary & Benefits
We offer:
- A salary of up to £39,000 per annum
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company benefits package including:
- A company-sponsored pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.
What You’ll Do
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and embed our H&S strategy, translating priorities into measurable operational outcomes, while maintaining strong safety governance through audits, inspections, and risk management.
- Act as the trusted H&S advisor to site leadership, providing pragmatic guidance, constructive challenge, and influencing decision-making—balancing risk, compliance, and business needs.
- Provide visible, hands-on safety leadership within operations, strengthening safety culture, driving behavioural change, and moving performance beyond basic compliance.
- Develop leadership and operational capability by coaching managers on:
- Safety ownership
- Investigations
- Root cause analysis
- Accountability across the site
- Use data, insights, and trend analysis to:
- Prioritise risk
- Manage competing H&S priorities
- Lead effective incident investigations
- Deliver timely corrective actions
- Collaborate across sites and support wider operational needs.
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About the GXO Difference
We are pioneering faster, smarter, leaner supply chains. As a global leader in supply chain solutions, we empower our customers with technology and services for efficient goods management.
For GXO, people are our greatest strength—whether energetic innovators or seasoned professionals. Our culture thrives on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. We are:
- Armed Forces friendly
- Disability Confident (Leader in the Disability Confident Scheme)
- Committed to recruiting and retaining the most talented people from a diverse pool.
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What You Need to Succeed
To excel in this role, you should demonstrate the following qualities and experience:
Essential Requirements
- Proven ability to influence and engage operational leaders, driving measurable safety improvement through:
- Coaching
- Investigation
- Effective stakeholder management
- Strong investigative and problem-solving capability in fast-paced operational environments, capable of:
- Managing complex issues
- Leading outcomes
- Driving continuous improvement
- Highly organised, self-motivated, and disciplined, with the ability to:
- Manage multiple priorities independently
- Maintain high standards and integrity
- Confident and effective communicator, able to build trusted, professional relationships with:
- Colleagues
- Customers
- Regional teams
- External stakeholders at all levels
- Experienced and technically competent safety professional with:
- NEBOSH or NVQ Level 3 Qualification (essential)
- Experience in a supervisory or safety-related role (logistics background beneficial).
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