Health & Safety Advisor

Job Overview

Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor who can go beyond compliance, acting as a visible presence on site to influence behaviours, challenge decisions, and embed a proactive safety culture as part of our values?

Here at GXO, we are looking for a Health & Safety Advisor to join our M&S site in Daventry. In this role, you will be part of a QHSE team delivering essential support services across site, ensuring compliance with all quality, safety, health, and environmental standards. You'll play a key role in promoting a strong safety culture, conducting audits and risk assessments, supporting investigations, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational performance. Working closely with operational teams, you'll help maintain the high standards of service and efficiency that underpin GXO's long standing partnership with M&S.

Working Hours

Full time permanent role, 5 days from 7 - 08:00 to 16:00.

Pay, Benefits and More

We're looking to offer a salary of up to £35,000 per annum and 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays). Your benefits package includes flexible dental insurance plans, a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You'll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a savings scheme and much more!

Typical Day - Responsibilities

• Support the QHSE Manager with health and safety, including audits, fire safety, and incident reporting
• Deliver safety training and promote a strong, compliant safety culture across site
• Maintain and improve QHSE systems, ensuring KPIs, reports, and records are up to date
• Act as a key contact for facilities and maintenance, coordinating repairs and upkeep with contractors
• Manage contractor processes (RAMS, permits) and support QHSE meetings, documentation, and compliance activities

Requirements - What you need to succeed at GXO

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, multitask, and meet deadlines effectively
• High attention to detail, producing accurate and consistent work
• Proactive approach with the ability to identify and elevate potential issues
• Confident using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook) in a fast paced environment
• Experience in health & safety (accident investigation, risk management) with NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent qualification

Equal Opportunity and Inclusive Employment

GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.