GXO Logistics, Inc.
Health and Safety Advisor
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Health and Safety Advisor
Health and Safety Advisor – Hams Hall Depot (Sainsbury’s)
About the Role
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 core 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 GXO as our Health and Safety Advisor, based in our Hams Hall depot for our customer Sainsbury’s.
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).
What You’ll Earn
- Salary: Up to £39,000 per annum
- Leave: 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Benefits:
- Company sponsored pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to an employee benefits platform, including retail discounts
Responsibilities (Typical Day)
- Deliver and embed our H&S strategy, translating priorities into measurable operational outcomes while maintaining strong safety governance through:
- Audits and inspections
- Risk management and analysis
- Act as the trusted safety advisor to site leadership, providing:
- Pragmatic guidance
- Constructive challenge
- Influencing decision-making to balance risk, compliance, and business needs
- Provide visible, hands-on safety leadership within operations, strengthening:
- Safety culture
- Behavioural change
- Performance beyond basic compliance
- Develop leadership and operational capability, coaching managers on:
- Safety ownership
- Investigations
- Root cause analysis
- Accountability across the site
- Use data, insight, and trend analysis to:
- Prioritise H&S risk
- Manage competing priorities
- Lead effective incident investigations
- Deliver timely corrective actions
- Collaborate across sites and support wider operational needs
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What You Need to Succeed
- Proven ability to influence operational leaders, driving:
- Measurable safety improvements
- Coaching, investigations, and stakeholder management
- Strong investigative and problem-solving skills, capable of:
- Managing complex issues
- Leading outcomes
- Driving continuous improvement in fast-paced environments
- Highly organised and disciplined, able to:
- Manage multiple priorities independently
- Maintain high standards and integrity
- Confident and effective communicator, excelling at:
- Building trusted professional relationships
- Engaging with colleagues, customers, regional teams, and external stakeholders
- Technically competent safety professional with:
- Essential: NEBOSH or NVQ Level 3 Qualification
- Preferred: Experience in a supervisory or safety-related role (previous logistics background would be beneficial)
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Why Join GXO?
GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions, helping global businesses optimize their logistics with technology and innovation. We pride ourselves on our energetic, diverse, and inclusive team—where individual talent is valued and encouraged.
Our Commitments: ✅ Equal opportunity employer ✅ Champion of diversity and inclusion ✅ Armed Forces friendly organisation ✅ Disability Confident Leader (part of the Disability Confident Scheme)
Note: Responsibilities listed are indicative, and employees may be required to perform additional duties as needed. For more details, review GXO’s candidate privacy statement.
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