Health and Safety Advisor

Are you a confident Health and Safety Advisor who can go beyond compliance, acting as a visible presence on site to influence behaviours, challenge decisions, and embed a proactive safety culture as part of our values?

Do you thrive in a site‑based leadership role, partnering with operational and senior teams to shape culture, build capability, and drive H&S performance while supporting wider sites when needed? If so, we want to hear from you!

Join us at GXO as our Health and Safety Advisor, based in our Haydock depot for our customer Sainsburys.

This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 40 per week. Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:30 – with flexibility required for business needs.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £38,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

Deliver and embed our H&S strategy, translating priorities into measurable operational outcomes while maintaining strong safety governance through audits, inspections, and risk management

Act as the trusted H&S advisor to site leadership, providing pragmatic guidance, constructive challenge, and influencing decision‑making to balance risk, compliance, and business needs

Provide visible, hands‑on safety leadership within operations, strengthening safety culture, driving behavioural change, and moving performance beyond basic compliance

Develop leadership and operational capability, coaching managers on safety ownership, investigations, root cause analysis, and accountability across the site

Use data, insight, and trend analysis to prioritise risk, manage competing H&S priorities, lead effective incident investigations, and deliver timely corrective actions, while collaborating across sites and supporting wider operational needs

What you need to succeed at GXO:

Proven ability to influence and engage operational leaders, driving measurable safety improvement through coaching, investigation, and effective stakeholder management

Strong investigative and problem‑solving capability, able to manage complex issues, lead outcomes, and drive continuous improvement in fast‑paced operational environments

Highly organised, self‑motivated, and disciplined, with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining high standards and integrity

Confident and effective communicator, able to build trusted, professional relationships with colleagues, customers, regional teams, and external stakeholders at all levels

Experienced and technically competent safety professional (NEBOSH / NVQ L3 Qualification essential), with experience in a supervisory or safety‑related role (logistics background beneficial)

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

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