GXO Logistics, Inc.
Health and Safety Advisor
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Are you passionate about creating a culture where safety is more than a compliance requirement and becomes a way of life?
Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor and 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!
About the Role
As Health and Safety Advisor, you will lead and champion Health & Safety across a diverse 24/7 multi-user Harlow distribution operation, for our Home Delivery Network. Ensuring compliance with UK legislation, driving the GXO Road to Zero philosophy, and fostering a proactive culture of safety, wellbeing, and continuous improvement. Working closely with site leadership and regional stakeholders, you will influence safety performance, manage risk, support audits and compliance activities, and help create a safe and healthy working environment across the site and wider regional network.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support the delivery of the site QHSE strategy
- Drive a proactive safety culture, promoting colleague engagement, coaching managers, and implementing effective corrective actions from audits, risk assessments, accident investigations, and near-miss reporting
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, legislation, and audit requirements, maintaining robust standards and supporting continuous operational improvement
- Analyse, report, and communicate safety performance data, providing regular updates, metrics, and action plans to QHSE committees, site leadership teams, and key stakeholders
- Champion continuous improvement across the operation and wider region, supporting other business unit sites when required and demonstrating flexibility to meet the needs of a 24/7 operation
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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)
Pay, Benefits and More
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.
- Salary of up to £40,000 per annum
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company sponsored pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts
About GXO
Promoting and driving a culture of safety engagement in line with the Road to Zero philosophy and improving performance through the implementation of relevant management systems current standards and legislation; maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment by the identification and control of risks, leading to the prevention of accidents and causes of work-related ill health.
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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. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.
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