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Health and Safety Advisor
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Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor
Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor who can go beyond compliance, acting as a visible presence on site to influence behaviours, challenge decisions, and embed a proactive safety culture as part of our values?
Do you thrive in a site-based leadership role, partnering with operational and senior teams to shape culture, build capability, and drive H&S performance while supporting wider sites when needed? If so, we want to hear from you!
Join us at GXO
Join us at GXO as our Health and Safety Advisor, based in our Hoddesdon (EN11 0EZ) depot for our customer Sainsburys.
This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 40 per week. Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:30 – with flexibility required for business needs.
Pay, benefits and more:
We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £39,500 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.
What you’ll do on a typical day:
- 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 to balance 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, coaching managers on safety ownership, investigations, root cause analysis, and accountability across the site
- Use data, insight, and trend analysis to prioritise risk, manage competing H&S priorities, lead effective incident investigations, and deliver timely corrective actions, while collaborating across sites and supporting wider operational needs
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What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Proven ability to influence and engage operational leaders, driving measurable safety improvement through coaching, investigation, and effective stakeholder management
- Strong investigative and problem-solving capability, able to manage complex issues, lead outcomes, and drive continuous improvement in fast-paced operational environments
- Highly organised, self-motivated, and disciplined, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining high standards and integrity
- Confident and effective communicator, able to build trusted, professional relationships with colleagues, customers, regional teams, and external stakeholders at all levels
- Experienced and technically competent safety professional (NEBOSH / NVQ L3 Qualification essential), with experience in a supervisory or safety-related role (logistics background beneficial)
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About GXO
We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.
GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.
GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
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