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Health and Safety Facilities Officer


Company : Azenta Life Sciences


Location : Irlam, North West


Created : 2025-06-18


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

The Health and Safety Facilities Officer will be responsible for reviewing, developing, implementing, and monitoring the site's health and safety management systems to ensure the wellbeing of staff, visitors, and contractors. In addition, the role will provide support for facility-related activities at the Manchester site.All potential candidates should read through the following details of this job with care before making an application.What Youll Be DoingProvide support the site to achieve excellent environmental, health & safety (EHS) standards across the business, through management systems and continuous improvements.Assist in the preparation of corporate EHS assessments/management plans.Provide support with customer & corporate ESG group requests for information.Follow up with line managers to obtain relevant information for things such as incident investigations, near miss reports etcAssist with the development of EHS communications and training content as required.Assist with internal audits in support of ISO9001, ISO13485 & H&S compliance.Keep H&S Notice Boards up to date with relevant information.Provide updates to site health & safety KPI data (reporting of accidents, incidents and near miss data)Assist with writing SOP's and give guidance with risk assessmentsAssist in preparing health & safety training for new startersTake part in monthly health & safety meetings as part of the health & safety committeeBe point of contact (POC) for facility maintenance issuesSupport site Manufacturing leadership team with initial POC for power outages, weather related hazards or alerts, liquid spills, plumbing issues or incident clean up, in line with site BCPOrganise & liaise with contractors carrying out repairs to siteOrganise & liaise with site security contractor as requiredCarry out fire drills and help maintain fire marshal listSupport the site leadership ship team with any facility / layout changes requiredOrganise first aid training for staff in line with current legislationWhat Youll BringA recognized qualification in health and safety such as ISOH Managing Safely as a minimumWorking within an ISO 9001 Quality Assurance system & ISO 13485 - Quality Management for Medical DevicesAn awareness of Training, Auditing, Compliance and Health & Safety with a desire to progress within this fieldExperience of working with data producing different ways to present dataAbility to use Microsoft office suite of programs (Word, Outlook, Teams etcExperience of working with a variety of stakeholdersDriven with the ability to get things doneThe ability to work on a project alone with limited supervisionStrong written and verbal communicator.Self-motivated in the pursuit of EH&S objectives.Ability to work as part of a larger team.