H&S Manager

Are you passionate about creating a positive safety culture where colleagues go home safe every day?

Do you have the confidence to influence senior leaders, operational teams and key stakeholders?  Can you drive continuous improvement whilst maintaining the highest standards of health and safety compliance?

We're looking for an experienced H&S Manager to lead all health, safety and compliance activities across a complex food and beverage distribution operation for our Greene King site in Greenford. Supporting warehouse, transport and support functions, you'll play a key role in developing a proactive safety culture, ensuring compliance with legislation and driving continuous improvement initiatives. This is a highly visible role where you'll work closely with operational leaders, colleagues, unions and external bodies to ensure safety remains at the heart of everything we do.

This is a full time, permanent, position working Monday to Friday 07:30-15:30 or 08:00 -16:00, some flexibility will be required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £50,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead all health and safety activities across warehousing, transport and support functions
• Manage risk assessments, safe systems of work, accident investigations and RIDDOR reporting
• Deliver audits, compliance reviews and improvement plans, including support for BRC standards
• Produce and present KPI reports, trends and recommendations to senior leadership teams
• Coach and support managers and colleagues to continuously improve safety performance and engagement

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivilant as a minimum qualification
• Strong experience in health and safety management within logistics, distribution, warehousing or a similar operational environment
• Experience conducting investigations, risk assessments, audits and driving corrective actions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels, including Unions, the local EHO and the Environment Agency

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

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.

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.

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