Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinator

WE ARE 200 years of history and over 2,000 employees strong. WE ARE a business loaded with opportunity and career progression. WE ARE innovators, designers, makers and engineers who manufacture and provide smart, efficient, and effective building products and solutions.

Through our customer relationships, diverse building product range and solutions, we enable the creation of inspirational homes, places and spaces for us all to live and work better. With eight core product categories, underpinned by expert design and technical services, we work with architects, builders, merchants and the wider construction supply chain to build the face of Britain.

We are fully committed to a net zero future and continue to invest in expertise and product development to manufacture more efficiently and sustainably. We pride ourselves on leading for new, innovative and sustainable products and solutions, both for today and for a new era of building.

To support our progress, we are currently recruiting for a Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinator to come and join our team at our Thornley factory in Durham.

This is a varied role with no two days the same. From supporting on writing risk assessments; contractor management; participating in audits and inductions to incident investigation - managing SHE KPI’s such as safety concern and actions close out.

The role requires a good level of engagement with employees at all levels including feeding valuable information into daily and weekly management meetings and spending time on the production lines to understand the process; although some of the role will require admin a good portion of the day will be spent hands on.

The role will give plenty of exposure to group functions and involves the implementation of group projects at site level in line with business targets.

• Collaborating with all Business stakeholders to ensure our Safety Health & Environment Strategy is delivered and we comply with all relevant legislation at all times
• Ensuring all incidents and non-compliance's are accurately recorded on the SHE management system. Root cause analysis identification and implementation of corrective actions to facilitate effective incident closure. Ensuring short-term containment and long-term solutions are implemented to prevent re-occurrence.
• Where required act as the primary point of contact for the SHE advisor for any site specific matters.
• To facilitate the site in their respective area to develop risk assessments, SSOP’s and completion of any other relevant procedures.
• Management of the sites tier boards ensuring they are up to date and accurate information is displayed.
• Communication and training delivered through the use of Tool Box Talks, regular meetings, best practice and safety alerts.
• Ensure all H&S records are stored, maintained and reviewed in line with Ibstock PLC requirements.
• Proactively collating and analysing data and using problem solving tools to formulate action plans that will deliver reduced risks of injury and illness to employees and workers
• Identifying areas of best practice on sites and working closely with the SHE advisors to cascade information throughout the group
• Providing accurate, timely and technical advice to colleagues in resolving issues in H&S and reducing environmental impact
• Supporting Factory Management Teams on the formulation of site specific SHE action plans and supporting and auditing progress to ensure they are delivered
• Measuring and reporting improvements to the Safety Health & Environment Management Systems
• Facilitating the review of any site specific procedures and assessments in line with group SHE requirements
• Continuous improvement of the site H&S performance demonstrating through accurate measurement and monitoring of specific KPI’s
• Implementing new initiatives introduced by the group H&S department as per the H&S roadmap.
• Facilitating H&S committees on site in line with the divisional communications matrix with effective roll out and monitoring of minutes and action plans
• Making arrangements to complete occupational health monitoring (including noise, air contamination and Hand Arm Vibration-HAV)…