HSE Business Partner

Location: Field Based - Southern Region (London & South East)

Working hours: 37.5; Monday- Friday

Salary: £37,000- £40,000 depending on experience

Matt Williams (Head of Risk) is on the hunt for a ‘Health and Safety Business Partner’ to come and join his well-established team.

The role is field based, covering Lookers Southern sites including Surrey, Essex, Kent & London.

Within this role you will be working within the second line of defence and be responsible for providing independent professional health and safety auditing and advice within Lookers and to all levels of staff.

You will play an integral role in partnering with the business to provide support and advice to operational colleagues and management to ensure the business meets Lookers internal standards for its management of Health and Safety.

Improving performance will also play a significant part of your role via the implementation of health and safety measurement systems to ensure that Lookers meets HSE requirements as well as other relevant safety legislation. Is driving a positive safety culture core to you?  Within this role you will be working in partnership with the business to drive just that! You will also ensure the timely delivery of associated underpinning health and safety management actions plans and operational programmes.

• Providing advice and guidance to promote and enable compliance
• Undertaking independent health and safety non-conformance audits for all relevant sites, in line with the design of the health and safety system as well as undertaking fire risk assessments
• Carrying out ad-hoc site visits to respond to H&S issues and to provide operational colleagues with H&S advice
• Overseeing the Lookers H&S incident reporting approach and engaging with the business to raise awareness of the incident reporting processes and ensure incidents are raised in line with the internal processes
• Providing independent challenge and transparently raise issues whilst escalating where appropriate
• Performing root cause analysis of incidents including RIDDOR events as well as reviewing ‘near misses’ to understand root cause and lessons learnt
• Performing ‘toolbox talks’ to colleagues and develop colleague friendly guidance to provide clarity
• Engaging with the Facilities and Estate team as required to raise issues and ensure actions are taken to address
• Supporting activity to improve and enhance the Health and Safety system
• Undertaking reviews of the paperwork and audit criteria as well as assisting and managing any H&S 3^rd party providers as required

Could you be the ‘Health and Safety Business Partner’ we are looking for?

We are on the hunt for an individual who has demonstrable experience of working with business stakeholders to drive positive health and safety outcomes. Do you also have experience in completing health and safety management audits against and implementing action plans to meet audit findings?

To be successful in this role, we are looking for an individual who has at least a minimum of 3 years’ experience of working with a H&S role. It is imperative that you’re able to exhibit knowledge and understanding of all aspects of H&S regulation, management and standards whilst interpreting and providing authoritative advice on H&S and risk management issues.

Do you have stakeholder influencing abilities and strong interpersonal skills? We are looking for someone who isn’t afraid to deliver independent challenge and difficult messages. A good understanding of workplace wellbeing initiatives and how they can add value to an organisation would also be very helpful.

Organisation and multitasking capabilities are also key, we are looking for someone who is able to prioritise work to ensure tasks are completed within specific time constraints. It is also essential that you’re able to work off your own initiative and be a pro-solver problem to get to the bottom of problems on a day-to-day basis.

We would love to hear from you if you’re excited by Lookers latest opportunity!

About us:

Lookers are proud to be one of the top three motor vehicle retailers in the UK, representing 32 vehicle manufacturers, selling and servicing a huge range of cars at over 150 franchised dealerships across hundreds of locations throughout the UK & Ireland. We recognise the hard work, flexibility and commitment of our people so we offer an industry leading benefits package.

This includes competitive basic salaries plus;  

• Enhanced holidays that increase with service  
• Eligibility to join one of our car schemes 
• Critical illness cover after 2 years and Life Assurance 
• Smart Health - free access to support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year 
• Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave 
• For some roles a company car and additional earning potential through commission or bonus.

We strongly believe in nurturing and providing our people with specific manufacturer brand and management training to enhance career development opportunities. We have a great bunch of people, and we like to celebrate and encourage success at all levels with our annual Lookers Excellence Awards. So? What are you waiting for?

Lookers are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a working environment that is free from all types of discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you starting with us. Depending on the role and responsibilities, these could include us verifying your recent employment, address and credit history. We may also conduct a criminal record check and a driving licence check.