Health, Safety & Environmental Officer

We are looking for a Health, Safety & Environmental Officer to work in our Facilities team in our People directorate.

The successful candidate will be required to maintain awareness of and ensure SQA complies to all Health, Safety & Environmental legislation in order to provide a safe working environment for staff and visitors. In order to do this, you must be able to demonstrate experience in the following specific duties:

• Providing advice and guidance to all colleagues on all aspects of Health, Safety and the Environment to ensure full compliance with legislation.
• Delivery of varied mix of customer focused facilities services to meet operational objectives.
• Lead and implement Environmental initiatives, campaigns and projects in line with the Environmental strategy.
• Compiling monthly, quarterly and annual performance reporting on Health, Safety and Environmental activities with detailed commentary as required by the corporate objectives.
• Investigating Health and Safety issues including accidents relating to working conditions and implement improvements where required.

Additionally you must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Direct line management experience.
• Leading, coaching, training and developing individuals to maximise performance.
• Contributing to an organisation’s continuous improvement initiatives through identification, analysis and recommendation of process improvements, efficiency savings and potential required changes to policy.