Health and Safety Coordinator

Job description

Your Impact:

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Nuclear Power Programmes are delivering client critical works to some of our major UK and European Projects. Our embedded teams are delivering support to Hinkley Point C (New build power station in the South West).

Working in both client facing and internal roles we are delivering major programme and project management capabilities throughout the project lifecycle. We are driving to deliver safe, high quality and to time solutions by thinking innovatively and working collaboratively.

Jacobs is seeking a Health and Safety Coordinator who will act to ensure all health & safety requirements (legal and organisational) for the EPR-E office environment are met in a timely manner whilst ensuring compliance with relevant legislation at all times.

Principal Accountabilities

• Manage and monitor the H&S safety walks process, including placing and monitoring actions where needed
• Receive, review and manage Learning Reports, liaise with relevant parties to ensure actions are completed
• Monitor and report on accidents/near misses and liaise with relevant parties to ensure actions are completed
• In collaboration with the H&S network, ensure sufficient first aiders, training and first aid provisions. Organise training for first aiders where required
• In collaboration with the H&S network, ensure sufficient fire marshals and management of fire requirements. Organise training for fire marshals where required
• Administer and monitor the DSE assessment process. Place and follow-up actions where required to ensure necessary adaptations and equipment are provided.
• Participate in routine H&S meetings & forums; suggest improvements where needed and follow-up employee concerns.
• Routinely report on H&S-related KPIs to senior management, automating this process as much as possible.
• Conduct risk assessments on H&S related topics such as first aid, stress and general office safety.
• Participate in development of the EPR-E mental health / wellbeing strategy.
• Monitor developments in HSE guidance and legislation, implementing adaptations to EPR-E processes and procedures when necessary.
• Interface with site-based teams to ensure H&S requirements are also met in this environment.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Knowledge of UK safety legislation and its administration in an office environment
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook required;
• Power Automate, Forms and PowerBI advantageous
• Ability to work under pressure, managing conflicting priorities and tight deadlines
• Professional and friendly demeanour - able to build relationships at all levels
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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