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Health and Safety Advisor – Energy from Waste
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Health and Safety Advisor - Energy from Waste Facility, Tyseley, Birmingham
We are recruiting for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join the site management team at a busy operational Energy from Waste facility in Tyseley, Birmingham.
This is a highly visible, hands-on position offering genuine ownership of day-to-day health and safety performance across a complex industrial plant.
Working closely with the Operations Director, Plant Management Team and Group Head of Health and Safety, you will provide practical advice, promote behavioural safety and help embed a proactive culture of compliance, accountability and continuous improvement.
This opportunity would suit a confident safety professional with experience gained within:
- Energy from Waste
- Biomass or renewable energy
- Power generation
- Utilities
- Process manufacturing
- Chemical processing
- Engineering or heavy industry
The Role
As Health and Safety Advisor, you will become the principal source of day-to-day health and safety guidance on site.
You will work closely with employees, managers, engineers and contractors to ensure plant activities comply with current UK legislation, Group standards and site procedures.
The position covers audits, inspections, contractor management, incident investigation, risk management, ISO 45001 and significant involvement during planned plant outages.
Key Responsibilities
- Advising the Operations Director and Plant Management Team on health and safety matters
- Acting as the main site contact for safety compliance, guidance and behavioural safety
- Promoting a positive and continuously improving health and safety culture
- Developing, implementing and reviewing site policies and procedures
- Supporting the implementation and ongoing development of ISO 45001
- Leading internal health and safety audits and workplace inspections
- Monitoring site performance and identifying improvement opportunities
- Producing weekly health and safety reports for senior site and Group leaders
- Chairing the site Health and Safety Committee
- Representing the facility at Group health and safety forums
- Leading and supporting incident and near-miss investigations
- Completing root-cause analysis and communicating lessons learned
- Managing corrective and preventative actions through to completion
- Assessing contractor competence and monitoring contractor compliance
- Reviewing RAMS, permits and safe systems of work
- Delivering and overseeing site health and safety inductions
- Supporting incident-management and emergency-response arrangements
- Attending operational and outage-planning meetings
- Liaising with clients, contractors, regulators and external bodies
- Providing practical guidance on operational risk and safe working practices
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Planned Outage Responsibilities
During planned plant outages, you will play a key role within the outage-management team.
Responsibilities will include:
- Developing the outage health and safety plan
- Supporting CDM compliance and contractor-management arrangements
- Reviewing and auditing permits, risk assessments and method statements
- Conducting inspections, investigations and safety surveillance
- Monitoring contractor compliance throughout outage activity
- Attending outage planning and operational meetings
- Advising managers, engineers and contractors on safe working practices
- Agreeing appropriate out-of-hours health and safety coverage
- Producing detailed safety summaries for outage reports
What We Are Looking For
You should have:
- A minimum NEBOSH General Certificate
- Previous health and safety experience within a live operational or industrial environment
- Experience in Energy from Waste, biomass, power generation, utilities, process manufacturing or heavy industry
- Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and recognised best practice
- Working knowledge of ISO management systems, ideally ISO 45001
- Experience conducting workplace audits, inspections and risk assessments
- Practical incident-investigation and root-cause-analysis experience
- Experience managing contractor health and safety compliance
- Confidence reviewing RAMS, permits and safe systems of work
- The ability to challenge unsafe practices constructively
- Strong influencing skills across employees, managers and contractors
- Excellent written reporting and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
- Membership of an appropriate professional health and safety body
- Flexibility to travel occasionally to other Group sites
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An auditor qualification, formal incident-investigation training or previous experience acting as a lead investigator would be advantageous.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to take genuine ownership of health and safety performance within a technically demanding UK energy operation.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Influence safety culture across the entire site
- Work directly with senior operational and Group leaders
- Lead audits, investigations and continuous-improvement activity
- Play a central role during major planned plant outages
- Support the ongoing development of ISO 45001
- Make a visible impact within a busy Energy from Waste facility
- Build your career within an established UK energy business
Apply today to be considered for this Health and Safety Advisor opportunity in Tyseley, Birmingham.
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