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Health and Safety Advisor

GXO

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Overview

Join us at GXO as our Health and Safety Advisor, based in our Kettering depot for our customer Sainsburys.
£39,000
Per year
Full time, Permanent
(40 Hours per week between Monday to Friday.)
Kettering

Key information

You will be working from 08:00 to 16:30 between Monday to Friday with flexibility required for business needs.

About the role

  • Deliver and embed our Health and Safety strategy, translating priorities into measurable operational outcomes while maintaining strong safety governance through audits, inspections, and risk management.
  • Act as the trusted Health and Safety advisor to site leadership, providing pragmatic guidance, constructive challenge, and influencing decision making to balance risk, compliance, and business needs.
  • Provide visible, hands on safety leadership within operations, strengthening safety culture, driving behavioural change, and moving performance beyond basic compliance.
  • Develop leadership and operational capability, coaching managers on safety ownership, investigations, root cause analysis, and accountability across the site.
  • Use data, insight, and trend analysis to prioritise risk, manage competing Health and Safety priorities, lead effective incident investigations, and deliver timely corrective actions, while collaborating across sites and supporting wider operational needs.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button.

We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

Requirements

  • Proven ability to influence and engage operational leaders, driving measurable safety improvement through coaching, investigation, and effective stakeholder management.
  • Strong investigative and problem solving capability, able to manage complex issues, lead outcomes, and drive continuous improvement in fast paced operational environments.
  • Highly organised, self motivated, and disciplined, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining high standards and integrity.
  • Confident and effective communicator, able to build trusted, professional relationships with colleagues, customers, regional teams, and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Experienced and technically competent safety professional. Have the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) or a National Vocational Qualification Level Three is essential.
  • Experience in a supervisory or safety related role in the logistics background being beneficial.

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.