About the Role:

Role: Safety and Compliance Officer
Company: 3PL Contract Logistics Provider.
Location: Bedfordshire (South)
Salary & Benefits: Up to £35,000+ Holidays & Package.
Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday

The Company

Loom Talent are proud to have been exclusively appointed to lead the hiring strategy for a new role, Safety and Compliance Officer, based in Bedfordshire.

Working for a well-established, growing, in-house logistics business that has retained a personal culture while becoming a sophisticated, multi-site operation. With six warehouse locations, around 600,000 sq. ft. of warehousing, and a fleet of 80+ vehicles.

The Safety and Compliance Officer will combine Health & Safety expertise with business systems, compliance, data, and continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Business Process & Safety Manager, this is a varied, hands-on role working across the business and its multiple sites. You'll work closely with managers, operational teams, and senior leadership to identify risk, improve processes, strengthen compliance, and help create safer and more efficient ways of working.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be more than a traditional compliance professional. You'll have genuine scope to influence how the business operates, introduce improvements, and help shape systems and processes as the organisation continues to grow.

What will you be doing?

• 🦺 Conducting planned, unannounced, and dynamic audits across multiple sites.
• 🔎 Carrying out workplace inspections, risk assessments, and compliance reviews.
• 📋 Investigating accidents, incidents, near misses, and compliance breaches, including root cause analysis.
• 🎯 Developing and driving corrective and preventative actions through to completion.
• 📊 Analyzing audit, incident, and compliance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• 🤝 Working closely with site and department managers to promote a positive culture of safety, compliance, and accountability.
• 🗣️ Delivering toolbox talks, inductions, workshops, training, and awareness sessions.
• 📚 Supporting managers with safe systems of work, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• 💻 Acting as a key user and administrator for business and compliance systems, including Microsoft 365, Riskex, GoAudits, Lucidchart, and future platforms.
• ⚙️ Developing and improving workflows, dashboards, forms, reports, and business processes.
• 🗺️ Creating and maintaining process maps, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• 🔄 Identifying opportunities to improve, optimize, and standardize existing business processes.
• 💡 Challenging outdated processes constructively and introducing practical, sustainable improvements.
• 📈 Preparing compliance, safety, and operational reports for senior management and directors.
• 🤝 Liaising with external auditors, customers, regulators, and other stakeholders where required.
• 🔧 Providing system support, troubleshooting, and guidance to managers and employees.
• 📢 Keeping the business up to date with changes in legislation, regulations, and industry best practice.