HSE Advisor - South

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a HSE Advisor - South to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Lead, train, coach, and support site staff in the field of Health, Safety and Environmental improvement.
• To ensure the Company’s Health, Safety and Environmental policies are implemented consistently.
• To monitor, evaluate and review Health, Safety and Environmental policies, practice, and legal compliance. Make recommendations and implement new policies and procedures as required.
• To advise the Senior Management Team on the implications of current and emerging Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, including evaluating options for implementation. Make recommendations and generate actions plans to ensure compliance across the organisation.
• Support managers to maintain safe systems, providing specialist advice, coaching and practical support.
• Conduct audits, evaluate the effectiveness of Health, Safety and Environmental systems and procedures, identify, and implement improvements where necessary.
• Manage and maintain the accurate reporting of Health, Safety and Environmental Leading and Lagging performance indicators, providing dashboard reports where required.
• Proactively identify and present Health, Safety and Environmental improvement opportunities on Site, Territory and Business Unit levels.
• Proactively identify and share best practices with other Health, Safety and Environmental Team members across the organisation.
• To investigate, or where appropriate, to assist others to investigate the circumstances and causes of accidents and events. Support actions to take necessary steps to prevent a recurrence, including the issuing of notifications where required to the Health & Safety Executive

The profile

• Leading the HSE agenda by example
• Willingness to stand out and convince others of business case underlying HSE improvements
• The ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload
• Knowledge and a proven history of delivery of health, safety and environmental management systems and the provision of advice
• Willingness to learn and to share knowledge
• Excellent written and people skills and the ability to challenge constructively.
• Effective team working and networking skills and the ability to work independently using own initiative.
• Personal commitment to the corporate values and objectives of Wavin and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel across the region
• Working knowledge of current Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and its application in a manufacturing environment.
• Relevant professional qualification e.g., IOSH certificate, NEBOSH Certificate / diploma.
• Desirable: A member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
• Desirable: Continuous Improvement knowledge and training (green belt level)

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Wavin, Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 70 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by ensuring safe and efficient water supply, sanitation and hygiene, climate-resilient cities, and better building performance. Wavin has over 10,000 employees across more than 40 production sites worldwide, serving customers in over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, and Plastigama Wavin.