Senior Health & Safety Advisor - #2161668

HornerSalus Ltd has a new position available for a Senior Safety Advisor to join our leading event and fire safety organisation in Victoria, London.

The role requires an individual with varied event experience, a proactive approach to assisting our team and our clients with events and projects, sustained focus, and a great team-work ethic.

HornerSalus is a specialist event safety consultancy who provide expert advice and services to the event, design, fashion, hospitality, film, and creative industries.

Based in Victoria you can expect to be working with a very friendly and supportive team along with exposure to a wide variety of exciting projects here in London, across the UK, and overseas with many of our projects spanning Europe and the U.S. Add to this mix a fantastic selection of award winning clients, whom we help navigate complex safety considerations and deliver brave creative concepts. Here’s a snapshot of some of the projects we worked across in May and June of this year.

Events during this period saw us working across a variety of London locations and further afield including: Goodwood: Festival of Speed (8 events), Birmingham: NEC event, Cornwall: product launch, Silverstone: F1, Florence: private wedding, Miami: fashion show & after party, L.A: party, Cannes: Lions (16 events), and Peru: private event.

In total, we provided consultancy, support, site safety and specialist fire safety services to 58 live projects over a six-week period.

The Deal:

A full time permanent position (upon successful completion of a probationary period)

A competitive salary for the right candidate;

Package up to £55k, depending on experience

Overtime earnings for site work at competitive rates

Pension plan

Performance based annual bonus scheme

22 days + bank holidays + additional rota system time off at Christmas (circa 3 days)

Additional holiday entitlement for length of service (Up to 29 days)

Healthcare services

Opportunity for progression readily available within the company

Opportunities for career advancement and further training

Role:

Assisting in, composing, and implementing solutions to H&S challenges for live events and in the workplace

Conducting feasibility reports, capacity studies, audits, on-site inspections, and general reporting

Liaison with clients, contractors, suppliers, and venues to ensure management and implementation of safety procedures

Production of event safety plans, risk assessments, emergency procedures, fire safety plans, crisis planning and crowd management plans

Production of fire risk assessments

Working at live events as a safety advisor

Attendance at client and venue meetings, event inspections, SAG meetings, table top sessions

The Must Have’s:

NEBOSH General Certificate L3 or NCRQ Certificate in Applied Health and Safety, as a minimum

Excellent understanding of risk assessments, event safety plans and fire safety

3+ years experience in a similar safety role

Very good communicator with strong interpersonal skills and attention to detail

Very good written and spoken English language

Fire Safety qualification at L3 / L4

Proven ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

Ability to plan, prioritise and organise effectively

IT literacy and ability to present clearly and confidently to management

A conscientious and rule-bound individual with a strong sense of diplomacy

An excellent head for organisation and problem solving

An ability to work with sustained focus

Ability to treat high level information with the strictest of confidence at all times

Desired:

L5 or 6 qualification in Health, Safety or Fire; (or working towards this)

Applied knowledge of live events, venues and contractors

Tech IOSH Accreditation, working towards CMIOSH

Mac computer and software knowledge

If you feel that you are a good fit for the role based upon this criteria, please send your CV and a covering letter.

No recruitment agencies thank you.

UK residents only.