Safety Executive (South region - Safegard)

Job Introduction

As Safety Executive, you'll monitor compliance against Company (Global & Regional) health and safety, food safety, environmental policy and standards within their geographical area.

You'll undertake reactive HSEQ accident and incident investigations.

An excellent opportunity to showcase your experience particularly within safety compliance/food safety/environmental health, you'll work autonomously but have the support of a local team and the wider Safegard team, meeting every quarter to update and knowledge share, ensuring best practice.

You'll travel to Sodexo units within the Southern region covering Dorset to Kent along the South coast and into Outer London and Surrey to work through the proactive audit programme.  However, you'll need to have a flexible approach, as you will need to respond to reactive situations and ever changing workload priorities.   You'll have the competence and the confidence to deal at times with Environmental Health Officers and Trading Standards, and to work with our internal site colleagues..

Service Operations is the part of our business that supports segment development by providing expertise and process standardisation across all segments. Service Operations leverages our global expertise and best practice to bring the best of Sodexo to all of our clients. It includes everything from FM expertise to food development through to bid support, health and safety, and contract design and management.

Role Responsibility

• Implement, auditing and investigation activities across the sites within their geographical area in accordance with the site risk rating, in cooperation with the Head of Integrated Audit and Field Operations, to ensure the audit programme requirements and investigation rates are met.
• Undertake assessment of risk (AoR) audits / mobilisation support to mitigate health and safety / food safety risks that Sodexo faces during new contract openings.
• Undertake supply chain assurance audits of those businesses supplying Sodexo with goods and/or services to identify non-compliances and reduce risk exposure to Sodexo.
• Respond and react to enforcement agency interventions.
• High-risk sites proactively managed through to close-out.
• Accidents investigated and concluded within prescribed time lines in the Safegard protocols
• Time management split between activities to ensure appropriate focus is given to auditing, reactive incidents and other projects.

The Ideal Candidate

• Graduate calibre with knowledge of food hygiene and health and safety and environmental legislation, with the ability to apply that knowledge to Sodexo’s business activities.
• Leadership and influencing skills ideally with the experience of management of technical teams / individuals.
• Interpersonal skills combined with high accuracy during audit and investigation work and feedback processes, whether written or verbal.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills in particular presentation of technical or non-technical information to clients within Safegard.
• Proficient in IT applications such as MS Outlook, MS Excel and MS Word.
• Full UK* (or Irish*) driving licence and fully mobile to travel extensively to the Sodexo (and Safegard client) premises within their patch, and beyond as required.

Desirable

• Member of relevant professional body, for example Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), etc.
• Knowledge of Company health and safety policies and procedures – (this will be provided)

Package Description

£Competitive salary of £30-35k DOE + Band B Benefits including car, bonus, flexible benefits etc

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave.

We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.

Sodexo and our clients are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults within a regulated activity. Certain roles will require applicants to undergo screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and/ or Disclosure Scotland.