Health & Safety & Training Coordinator (HSTC/11/21)

 Health & Safety & Training Coordinator (REF. HSTC/11/21)

Since its formation in 1978, Moore Concrete Products Ltd has developed into a world class, quality focused, precast concrete manufacturer based outside Ballymena. The company is customer focus led, ensuring the continued evolution of our extensive product range, designed to meet the requirements of civil infrastructure, agriculture and building customers across the UK & Ireland.

We are now recruiting for a Health and Safety and Training Coordinator. The Health and Safety and training coordinator will be responsible for day-to-day management and co-ordination of all relevant Health and Safety requirements and all training activities for Moore Concrete, liaising closely with other departments e.g., Production, Quality, HR etc to ensure best practices are implemented.

Company benefits:

Hours of Work: Hours will be variable between 32 – 48 hours per week as needed. General hours of work will be Monday – Friday 08:00am to 17:00pm however flexibility to start at 6:00am or 7:00am, work overtime and/or Saturdays as necessary is essential

Responsibilities of the role:

• Work alongside the Health and Safety Consultant to ensure all policies and procedures are followed in line with current HSE Legislation
• Creating and implementing H&S monitoring systems and policies
• Raise Health & Safety awareness amongst our management and labour force and implement requirements necessary for our obligations, which may include Risk Assessment and Method statements, COSHH assessments, toolbox talk and SOP’s.
• Ensuring all necessary risk assessments are in place, creating and maintaining these and ensuring these are both to required standards and reviewed/updated as required. This will include writing risk assessments and specialised assessments when required
• Assess accidents and incident reports, conducting root-cause analysis (RCA), outlining remedial actions and ensuring findings are recorded on the relevant forms.
• Advising on statutory training requirements, identifying areas where training/certification is required ensuring they are legally compliant with the standards imposed by Legislation, Approved Codes of Practice, or H.S.E. guidance.
• Keep up to date with changes in legislation and implement changes where required, bringing to the attention of management any relevant new legislation.
• Managing emergency procedures (such as fire alarm drills) and organising emergency teams such as fire wardens and first aiders
• To identify all training requirements using skills matrices and regular meetings with other managers.
• To create and assure implementation of training plans for each department along with the relevant manager.
• To ensure benchmark Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are available for all core tasks.
• Assure optimum production times for all SOPs through workshop study and staff engagement exercises.
• To ensure all staff are trained and validated to these SOPs and their roles.
• To organise all training to ensure legal compliance, e.g., abrasive wheels, crane etc.
• To coordinate and manage all apprentice training, creating pre-agreed training plans and assuring their application.
• To forecast all future training requirements working closely with HR and Production Supervisors
• To manage and coordinate all Continuous Improvement activities of Moore Concrete.
• Carry out regular lean audits to assure compliance and coach improvements with all staff
• Advising the management team of H&S and environmental issues and impacts.
• Record, investigation and reporting of Accidents, incidents, near misses and complaints· Make recommendations and communicate findings where appropriate.
• Drive continuous improvement of the Integrated Management Systems throughout the company (IMS).
• Ensure compliance throughout all projects in terms of quality standards.
• To set and agree housekeeping standards for the lean systems and assure compliance
• To launch and manage Root Cause Analysis where necessary to resolve quality or production related problems.

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Health, Safety and Environmental role within a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
• NEBOSH General Certificate or working towards it.
• Previous experience organising and conducting training events
• Strong numerical and literacy skills
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Strong teamwork skills
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Good time management, interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as part of a busy team.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Clear written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Criteria:

• NEBOSH Diploma
• Health and Safety degree or Equivalent
• At least 1 years practical experience coordinating Training activities in an industrial manufacturing organisation

Closing date for applications: Friday 3^rd December 2021 @5pm

Please visit www.moore-concrete.com/careers to apply for this vacancy.

For any queries, please contact the HR team on 028 2565 2566.

Moore Concrete is an Equal Opportunities Employer