Environmental, Health and Safety Coordinator

We are searching for an Environmental, Health and Safety Coordinator to join our Christchurch team!

In this role, you will assist in delivering a “zero harm” approach to our staff and our environmental impact. This will involve working with managers to ensure our EHS systems are continuously developed, implemented and promoted within the business. This is an exciting opportunity to develop a career in EHS working across three business units and on three sites in the UK.

Location: Christchurch UK

Benefits: Paid Time Off | Retirement with Employer Match | Health and Wellness Benefits | Learning and Development Opportunities | Competitive Pay | Bonus Scheme | Recognition | Employee Stock Purchase Plan I Inclusive & Supportive Culture

Your Challenge:

• Assist with the design and delivery of environmental monitoring and improvements for the company's environmental responsibilities including ISO 14001.
• Undertake monitoring and reporting of the company utilities and identify ways to reduce cost and our environmental impact.
• Assist with sourcing, maintaining and deploying monitoring equipment.
• Assist with the daily administration of environmental, health and safety systems and procedures, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and company policies.
• Support the completion of risk assessments for various workplace activities, including identifying potential hazards and recommending control measures.
• Undertake air monitoring/quality testing.
• Participate in regular workplace inspections, “Health & Safety Walks” identifying environmental, health and safety concerns, and assisting in developing action plans for improvement. Respond to “don’t walk by” cards.
• Help organise and deliver safety training sessions for staff to raise awareness about environmental, health and safety practices and regulations.
• Assist with recording and investigating accidents and near-misses, helping to develop reports and suggest corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Help ensure that the organisation complies with all relevant environmental, health and safety legislation, including maintaining records and updating policies as needed.
• Assist with internal audits of environmental, health and safety practices, ensuring that the workplace meets the required safety standards.
• Help promote a culture of safety across the organisation by communicating safety messages, posting safety bulletins, and supporting safety campaigns.
• Attend relevant training and workshops to further knowledge of environmental, health and safety legislation, procedures, and best practices.
• Provide general administrative support to the Environmental, Health & Safety team as required including maintenance of training records, purchasing, occupational health surveillance visits and records and the EH&S folders complying with the company data protection requirements and undertake any other duties that may arise

What You Bring:

• Be organised with the ability to plan your own workload
• Be methodical with attention to detail
• Have the ability to use initiative to solve practical problems and adapt to change
• Be an effective communicator through written and verbal means.
• Fully conversant in the use of Microsoft Office packages especially with the ability to organise and manipulate data, use formulae and statistics in Excel and working knowledge of SharePoint.
• 1 + years commercial experience ideally with some exposure to an environment, health and safety related role
• GCSE Math’s, English and science minimum grade C or 5, ideally coupled with A levels in a business-related subject and science or HNC in applied science or similar.
• A keen interest in pursuing a career in health and safety.

About Us:

Curtiss-Wright is a long-standing company who were at the forefront of aviation. Since its early days in aviation, the Company has diversified into many and acquired a local company, Penny & Giles in 2002. With three Curtiss-Wright Divisions having operations in Christchurch, we design, manufacture and market a wide range of Curtiss-Wright engineering products and solutions from the facility, which employs around 500 people.

No unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. Resumes submitted directly to any Curtiss-Wright employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Curtiss-Wright.

Compliance Statement

This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.

Curtiss-Wright values diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.