EHS Advisor

EHS Advisor

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

We are looking for an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Advisor to help create a workplace where everyone leaves and returns safe, healthy and well. This role plays a key part in shaping and strengthening our safety culture within a fast paced manufacturing environment. You'll partner with leaders and colleagues across the business to proactively identify and manage risks, influence behaviours, and drive continuous improvement in EHS practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and evolve a positive safety culture, encouraging learning from incidents and focusing on system improvements rather than blame
• Advise managers and employees on EHS policies, systems and compliance with ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards
• Conduct audits, inspections and risk assessments (e.g. PUWER, COSHH, manual handling), identifying improvements and ensuring actions are completed
• Lead on incident, accident and near miss investigations, ensuring learnings are captured and shared
• Analyse trends and KPIs, providing insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Deliver or coordinate EHS training, including inductions and behavioural safety initiatives
• Engage with stakeholders across the business to influence and embed best practice
• Proactively participate in shop floor activities (e.g. GEMBAs) to observe, coach and support teams
• Support environmental initiatives and ensure targets are achieved across the site
• Collaborate with external bodies including auditors and regulatory organisations
• Play an active role in continuous improvement and behavioural based safety programmes

Your Experience

• Previous experience in an EHS role within a manufacturing, engineering or heavy industry environment
• Experience conducting risk assessments and leading incident investigations
• Strong understanding of ISO standards (45001, 14001, 50001)
• Comfortable working within a hands on, shop floor environment
• Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders
• NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent)
• Knowledge of UK health, safety and environmental legislation and its application

Desirable

• Experience of behavioural safety and culture change initiatives
• Environmental or sustainability knowledge/qualifications (e.g. IEMA)
• Experience auditing ISO standards

Your Skills

• Strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trust at all levels
• Proactive and solutions focused mindset, with a continuous improvement approach
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to prioritise workload and deliver within tight timeframes
• High attention to detail and commitment to compliance and best practice
• Team oriented, with a genuine passion for health, safety and wellbeing
• Confident in coaching, mentoring and challenging behaviours where needed

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, flexible working, 27 days holiday (before bank holidays), 3 days paid volunteering leave, private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, share ownership option, free on site parking, and flexible benefits.