Health & Safety Advisor in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Advisor

Milton Keynes
Competitive, dependent on experience + Excellent Benefits
Full-time, Permanent

SHE Advisor – Manufacturing

Are you an experienced Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Advisor looking for your next challenge within a busy manufacturing environment?

We are recruiting a proactive and hands-on SHE Advisor to support site operations, ensure legislative compliance and drive continuous improvement across health, safety and environmental performance.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Health & Safety professional to take an active role in developing a positive safety culture, supporting operational teams and ensuring high standards across a fast-paced manufacturing site.

The Role

As SHE Advisor, you will provide practical health, safety and environmental advice, guidance and technical support to employees and management. You will play a key role in maintaining compliance, managing workplace risks and ensuring effective SHE systems and procedures are embedded throughout the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident Management: Manage accident and incident reporting, investigations, root cause analysis and corrective action plans.

• Training & Development: Coordinate and deliver health and safety training, ensuring employees have the necessary knowledge and competence.

• Technical SHE Support: Provide guidance on COSHH, risk assessments, LOLER, PUWER, occupational health, fire safety and safe systems of work.

• Workplace Inspections: Conduct regular site inspections and SHE audits, identifying areas for improvement and tracking corrective actions through to completion.

• Management Systems: Maintain the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and support ongoing compliance with ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System requirements.

• Employee Engagement: Organise SHE committee meetings, encourage employee involvement and promote a positive health and safety culture.

• Legislative Compliance: Monitor changes in health, safety and environmental legislation, communicating relevant updates and ensuring appropriate action is taken.

• Risk Management: Support the development and review of risk assessments, safe working procedures and operational improvement initiatives.

• Occupational Health: Coordinate occupational health surveillance programmes and support employee wellbeing initiatives.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitor SHE performance against key objectives and KPIs, identifying trends and opportunities for continuous improvement.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• NEBOSH National General Certificate or an equivalent recognised health and safety qualification.

• 3–5 years' experience in a Health & Safety Advisor, SHE Advisor or similar operational role.

• Strong working knowledge of UK health and safety and environmental legislation.

• Experience working within a manufacturing, engineering or fast-paced operational environment.

• Practical knowledge of COSHH, PUWER, LOLER, risk assessments and workplace safety.

• Experience supporting ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.

• Understanding of internal auditing, compliance monitoring and corrective action management.

• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence employees and management at all levels.

• Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and health and safety management systems/software.

Desirable:

• Experience within automotive, motorsport or manufacturing environments.

• IOSH trainer qualification or experience delivering health and safety training.

• Experience coordinating occupational health surveillance programmes.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience.

• Performance-related annual bonus.

• Private medical insurance.

• 5% employer pension contribution.

• 35 days' annual leave, including bank holidays and company shutdown periods.

Working Arrangements

Full-time, permanent position.

Monday to Friday, 08:30–17:30.

Based in Milton Keynes.

If you are an experienced SHE or Health & Safety professional with a background in manufacturing and are looking for an opportunity to make a genuine difference to workplace safety and environmental performance, we would love to hear from you.

Bryan & Armstrong Limited is acting as an employment agency in relation to this permanent vacancy.