Senior QHSE Advisor Job Belfast area,Northern Ireland UK,Management

About The Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve.

Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values –
Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Why Work for OCS?

Award-Winning

Employer:

Ranked 36th on Glassdoor’s Best Companies to Work For 2025 — we value and motivate our people.

Digital Learning:
The OCS Academy offers digital courses and resources to help you build skills and grow your career.

Retail Perks:
With our Hapi app, you can gain access to exclusive discounts, rewards and wellbeing resources.

Professional Growth: 600+ live learners across UK & I — Empowering colleagues with further development and qualifications!

Flexible Pay:
Access a portion of earned wages before payday with our Wagestream App! (Contract Specific)

About The Role:

To assist, support and deputise for the Head of QHSE. This will include supporting the business QHSE needs of the Managing Directors, Operational Directors, Senior Managers and operational teams as well as support and provide encouragement to operational management in the delivery of the QHSE Management System.

The role will also assist the Head of QHSE in managing a team of QHSE Advisors, ensuring a program of mentoring and continual professional development is maintained. To help OCS develop and maintain a positive approach to QHSE by coaching, supporting, advising and guiding operational managers and operational teams in relation to QHSE matters. Influence behaviour and coach others to deliver the QHSE Management System.

Deliver a risk based QHSE audit programme and to carry out accident and incident investigations (as directed).

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
Functional

To help up-skill operational management so that their QHSE competence, confidence and abilities are enhanced.
To participate in policy and process review to help achieve simplicity of access, easy understanding and full implementation.
Assist the Head of QHSE with development of monthly QHSE scorecards for the business divisions and deliver performance reports at Senior Leadership Team meetings where required.
To communicate proactively on QHSE issues and, as requested, prepare reports, bulletins and briefs to promote learning.
To react to emerging challenges and adapt as necessary.
Assist the Head of QHSE in managing a QHSE Team of QHSE Advisors ensuring the team continues with their professional development, as it supports operational management in the delivery of the QHSE management system and safe working practices.
To support delivery of QHSE strategic objectives and initiatives targeted at continual QHSE improvement.
To support the business to manage effectively QHSE matters and to be capable of taking appropriate and timely corrective action when required.
To carry out QHSE audits, to be completed to an agreed schedule, in order to identify nonconformance and advise upon corrective actions.
Assist with coordination of investigations of significant events that have the potential to compromise the business.
Oversee and support accident and incident management, including reporting under RIDDOR.
To provide competent advice and support to the business to assist adverse event investigation and proactive follow-up of lessons learnt.
To liaise, as required, with any enforcement authority (e.g. HSE, EHO) carrying out an investigation involving OCS and to co-ordinate any requests from that authority.
To represent the QHSE Team at meetings providing specialist knowledge and guidance on compliance and resilience activities.
To give credibility to the role by actively building effective working relationships with customers and key stakeholders.
To keep up to date with new legislation and industry initiatives to ensure maintenance of CPD.
To work collaboratively and constructively with other members of the QHSE Team to ensure a consistent and seamless delivery of QHSE…