HSE Advisor

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At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

About you:

Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you motivated by impactful work? Do you have a passion for excellent communication, cross functional working, and possess strong ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 knowledge? If so, then a career with STERIS in our Health and Safety team could be a great fit for you.

About Us:

At STERIS we are a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. Our mission is to help our customers create a healthier and safer world. Working at STERIS, you GROW, LEARN and MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

We are currently recruiting for a Health and Safety Advisor vacancy. This is an excellent opportunity to join us at a skilled level in a division that drives the business forwards through providing a best in class Health and Safety service to our business.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Health Safety & Environment Advisor is responsible for providing HSE support, advice and solutions, ensuring compliance on health and safety issues for the STERIS IP Instrument Processing Pan Birmingham operation.

The Advisor will work closely with key stakeholders across regional management and the operational business to champion, communicate and ensure the delivery of the regional HSE strategy with the objective of making and keeping the business safe against existing and emerging health and safety, fire safety, security and environmental risks.

You will also support the Manager, Regional Health Safety & Environment to implement, review and audit best practice HSE management systems across the region, ensuring health, safety and environment (HSE) standards, policies, guidance and practice is provided to regional Management.

Duties - Health, Safety and Environmental Management (85%)

• Provide onsite, efficient and professional HSE advice, coaching and support to Pan Birmingham facilities and functional teams.
• Work with allocated sites and site managers to communicate and drive compliance with HSE standards to ensure a safe working environment.
• Support effective management of health, safety and environment to embed at an operational level within the business, and that managers and associates at all levels are aware of their HSE responsibilities.
• Contribute to the delivery of and support the effective implementation of the regional HSE Health and safety Management system.
• Manage the effective implementation of HSE management systems, policies, standards, procedures and guidelines.
• Support continuous improvement and solutions to occupational exposures and deliver strong results from behavioural based processes.
• Support the development, completion and ongoing review of risk assessments, advising on the suitability and application of risk control measures, identify and report on inadequately controlled risks and non-compliance with statutory or internal non-compliance.

Duties - Additional Responsibilities

• Support the development of and deliver HSE training and other engagement initiatives that improve employee awareness, competency and safety performance.
• Monitor and report on training completion, performance and compliance, using feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure that all incidents, accidents, near misses and crises are appropriately reported, escalated and managed.
• Respond to incidents and accidents, claims, enforcement action and crises, carrying out investigations in accordance with the global HSE framework and ensuring appropriate actions are identified to prevent recurrences.
• Support allocated major project works and acquisition/integration activities, ensuring that consistent regional HSE standards are adopted and implemented.
• Develop and maintain proactive relationships with relevant industry bodies, key suppliers and regulatory bodies.
• Assist other HSE colleagues as required to build global HSE team effectiveness and capability.

Duties - Environmental Compliance Management (15%)

• Support environmental compliance, including conducting reviews, to ensure business units are fully compliant with relevant environmental requirements.
• Support the identification, communication and implementation of existing, new and/or revisions to existing environmental regulations.
• Support and coordinate environmental compliance tasks.

Education Degree

Required Experience

What you will need:

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a regional/global team.
• Strong people management and leadership skills, including facilitation, training, and mentoring skills.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with ability to manage site-level and regional operational management relationships.
• Pragmatic approach with ability to effectively balance technical and commercial demands.
• Working knowledge of Safety and Health Management Systems (ISO 45001), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001).
• Ability to develop and deliver effective training.
• Highly effective communication skills; written and oral.
• Confident with the use of IT systems, e-learning platforms and software.
• Understanding of applicable computer systems, such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint, databases, and function specific software.

Preferred Experience

Skills

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare, life sciences and dental products and services. STERIS is a $5 billion, publicly traded (NYSE: STE) company with approximately 17,000 associates and Customers in more than 100 countries.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Category: Health, Safety & Environment