Health and Safety Advisor

Wickford, United Kingdom | Posted on 09/24/2025

Join Our Team at Plantexpand – Health and Safety Advisor Wanted!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level witha forward-thinking, innovative company? Plantexpand is your gateway to an exciting career in vehicle and plant repairs, maintenance, and fleet management. As a trusted partner to some of the UK’s most recognised names,including Thames Water, Openreach, UKPN, Cadent, SGN, Enterprise, and the AA,we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional service, fostering lasting relationships, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

We are looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to joinourteam on a full-time, permanent basis.

Responsibilities Include:

• Supportdevelopment, review, and continual improvement of the company’s H&Sand environmental management systems, ensuring alignment with ISO 45001,ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and relevant legislation.
• Assistin defining H&S strategy, objectives and key performance indicators(KPIs), and contribute to management reviews.
• Participate in benchmarking exercises to compare safety performance with industrypeers and apply lessons learnt.
• Provide technical input to tenders, bids and client proposals from a health &safety compliance perspective.
• Conduct and maintain risk assessments, method statements (RAMS), safe systems ofwork, job hazard analyses, and permit-to-work schemes, especially forworkshop, field, and mobile operations.
• Undertakeroutine inspections (workshops, plant, vehicle maintenance depots,mobile/in-field sites) and safety walkabouts to identify hazards,non-conformities, and propose corrective/preventive measures.
• Monitorlegislative and standards changes (HSE, UK law, industry best practice) and ensure company policies, procedures and training are updatedaccordingly.
• Ensurelegal registers and compliance matrices are current, including machinerysafety, hazardous substances (COSHH), manual handling, noise, vibration,etc.
• Lead/co-lead investigations into accidents, incidents, near misses, and dangerousoccurrences; perform root cause analysis and recommend robust corrective and follow-up actions.
• Oversee
  
  RIDDOR and other statutory reporting obligations, liaising with HSE orother regulatory bodies where required.
• Maintainincident databases, extract trend data and produce analysis to informmanagement and drive continuous improvement.

Audit, Monitoring& Assurance

• Plan,execute and manage internal and third-party audits of H&S compliance across operations, including client site audits.
• Trackaudit findings, non-conformities, corrective action implementation, and maintain closure.
• Prepareregular management reporting (dashboards, KPI reports, trend analysis) forsenior leadership, clients, and audit reviews.

Training,Communication & Culture

• Develop,deliver and coordinate H&S training programmes (induction, toolbox talks, refresher, specialist topics) tailored to workshop, field, andmobile staff.
• Buildawareness campaigns, safety communication (newsletters, bulletin boards,intranet), promoting a culture of safety ownership.
• Serveas a point of contact for H&S queries from employees, clients,contractors, and engineers.
• Engage,support, and coordinate with safety representatives, site supervisors, and subcontractors to embed safety practices.

Stakeholder Engagement & External Liaison

• Represent Plantexpand in health & safety forums, client audits, regulatoryinspections, and external stakeholder meetings (e.g. HSE, clients,industry bodies).
• Collaborate with other functions (operations, HR, technical) to ensure H&S isintegrated into business planning, projects, maintenance, and procurementdecisions.
• Provide technical advice in contracts and works packages (e.g. on safe working,site conditions, access, temporary works).

Travel & Field Support

• Regular travel to client, workshop, and remote sites to support site safetyreviews, inspections, investigations, and audits.
• Occasionallyaccompany client or regulatory visits and act as the company’srepresentative on H&S matters.

Other Duties

• Performad hoc H&S tasks as required or assigned by H&S Manager or senior leadership.
• Maintainown professional development (CPD), attend industry forums, seminars, and contribute to…