Group Health, Safety, and Environment Advisor

The Opportunity – Group Health, Safety, and Environment Advisor

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About the role:

As the Group Health, Safety, and Environment Advisor, you'll play a key role in promoting a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance across the business. You’ll be instrumental in driving continuous improvement, supporting risk management, and helping shape the future of HS&E practices across the Group. Reporting to the Group Health and Safety Director .

This is a dynamic and influential position that requires strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills. You’ll work closely with managers, coordinators, and senior HS&E colleagues to deliver impactful change and maintain high standards of safety and environmental performance.

What does the role involve day to day?

• Ensuring JCB HS&E Safety Systems and databases are working effectively
• Enabling effective risk management strategies, ensuring risk reduction measures are implemented and emergency preparedness is in place.
• Ensuring compliance with HS&E legislation, JCB policies, and international standards.
• Monitoring performance trends and communicating improvement objectives for managers to action.
• Developing and delivering a risk-based assurance plan across the business and supporting other areas as needed.
• Identifying HS&E training needs and delivering appropriate training, supported by HS&E Coordinators where applicable.
• Investigating and reporting all HS&E incidents, near misses, and hazard observations, ensuring follow-up actions are completed.
• Advising management on cultural change initiatives and supporting strong HS&E governance.
• Collaborating with senior HS&E colleagues and business leaders to shape priorities and strategic actions.

This will be suited to you if…

• You hold a NEBOSH certificate, relevant degree, or equivalent.
• You bring relevant experience in HS&E and are confident using digital tools and systems.
• You're enthusiastic, committed, and passionate about driving continual improvement and best practice in HS&E.
• You can represent the business professionally with internal and external stakeholders, with support from senior colleagues where needed.
• You're influential among peers and middle managers, and open to developing your ability to influence at senior levels.

What happens next?

Ordinarily, our Resourcing Team reviews and shortlists CVs. If shortlisted, you’ll speak to one of our Recruiters to discuss the role further. Our interview process usually consists of an initial team’s interview followed by an in-person interview. We’ll keep in touch throughout the process but if you have any questions, please get in touch at recruitment@jcb.com 

What’s in it for you?

This is your chance to join a company that values expertise not only in rewards but also in real employee care. At JCB you don’t just get a competitive salary, 33 days’ holiday and access to our company pension—you can also use our onsite gym, in-house doctor and dentist. We have an ULEV car scheme available for our employees too. Then there’s the JCB Rewards Hub, which gives you discounts with high street retailers. Feel like biking to work? There’s our Cycle to Work Scheme.

We value diversity and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair and inclusive. If you face any accessibility challenges with your online application and require additional support, you have the option of speaking to a member of our Resourcing Team who can support you to complete an application in an alternative format. If you would benefit from this support, please email recruitment@jcb.com, and a member of the team will be in touch.

Recruitment Agencies: JCB does not accept any speculative approaches to present candidates for advertised vacancies.