Transport DGSA and Health & Safety Manager

HSE Recruitment have been engaged by a specialist UK Logistics business to recruit a Transport DGSA and Health and Safety Manager. This role will oversee transport safety at 3 main locations in Oldham, Wednesbury, and Hatfield but may support other depots UK wide. As well as driving H&S excellence across transport you will play an active role in facilitating client engagement and to support the sales and operational teams in dangerous goods across the UK, this is a full-time permanent role.
 

This Transport DGSA and Health & Safety Manager will be a home-based role that requires travel required and an expectation for overnight stays.

 
The responsibilities:

• Managing the health and safety function and relationship between the Operational team and its delivery Partners/drivers to ensure delivery of objectives
• Work closely with the commercial teams, supporting them and in identifying areas to improve current Dangerous goods standards.
• Proactively engaging in collaborative health and safety projects across all operations sites.
• Providing authoritative advice and guidance on health & safety matters to all stakeholders within designated areas of responsibility including on-road safety.
• Audit Road Safety Compliance and management, continuously driving the improvement of standards where appropriate.
• Providing strategies to plan and organize work systems to reduce health & safety risks and recommending suitable adaptations to processes
• Ensure robust reporting regimes are in place for Road Safety statistics.
• Providing management information and statistics related to your area of responsibility.
• Supporting business change through effective change management processes within the fast-paced environment.
• Continuous Improvement Management with partners, as well as the development of SOPs, ensuring requirements, guidelines, and policies are communicated and executed by partners.
• Build strong working relationships with internal peers and partners and maintain and improve communication all parties
• Engage with internal and external business teams and stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve performance and service
• Systematically escalate problems or deviations from the plan to the responsible people and teams and make sure that the measures taken are implemented
• Ensure that critical business requirements are met, sometimes with different timelines, review completed operations, and ensure compliance with service requirements.
• Develop and implement road safety strategy and the supporting campaigns

 
Skills and experience required-
 

• Diploma Level H&S qualification is desired but we will consider NEBOSH Certificate as a minimum, ideally working towards your Diploma.
• Experience overseeing Transport/ Fleet across multi-sites is essential
• Dangerous Goods Advisor (DGSA) or strong experience setting DG standards especially with limited quantities.
• Forward-thinking and confident
• Experience in a similar level role is required
• Extensive experience in risk assessments and hazard spotting.
• Experience in the development and delivery of training.
• Competent IT skills including Web applications, Word and Excel.
• Clean driving license

 
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 + £5,500 car allowance.
 
Interested? Apply now for immediate consideration: aisling.reid@hserecruitment.co.uk
 
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