Responsible to: Head of Compliance
About the Role: Driving Health & Safety performance and ensuring legal compliance, while promoting a positive Health & Safety culture company wide.
This is a full-time, permanent role working Monday to Thursday 7am - 4pm and Friday 7am - 11am from our Elgin site. Salary is starting from £40,000 per annum, dependent on experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enhance the existing Safety management system to meet site-specific needs while ensuring compliance with relevant legislation
• Offer specialised expertise and support in Health & Safety to site personnel
• Collaborate with other sites to exchange best practices, and achieve the Company’s Health & Safety Policy objectives
• Investigate all incidents, implementing appropriate interventions in a time scale that matches the severity of the incident, and ensuring robust follow-up. Review each case identify root causes, and lessons learned are systematically captured and shared to prevent recurrence
• Assist in creating systems that encourage personal ownership of Safety
• Conduct Hazard and Operability Studies on critical processes and all new investments/significant changes
• Act as the owner of the Health & Safety Committee, providing clear direction for leaders
• Continuously develop the Health and Safety plan
• Advise and actively support the Elgin site in all legislative H&S matters
• Provide statistical reporting of H&S performance metrics to the site and relevant business leaders, identifying any trends and proposed corrective actions
• Identify and assess business risks and propose effective processes and controls to manage those risks to an acceptable level
• Monitor site works from a H&S perspective ensuring adherence to internal procedures at all times including (but not limited to) Permit to Work, Control of Contractors, Risk Assessment, Emergency Response, Management of Change, Incident Investigation, delivery of Projects/CDM etc
• Deliver H&S training (regulatory and awareness) in conjunction with training identified in the Competency Framework
• Drive continual improvement within the Health & Safety Framework/Combined Management System
• Co- ordinate the work of external regulators, auditors and/or third-party consultants governing effective and timely closure of any actions
• Agree H&S -related actions locally and with business leaders as appropriate and support/govern effective and timely closure
• Contribute and participate in the operational meetings and take an active part in problem solving activities
• Work collaboratively with peers and colleagues and apply learnings from identified training and development activities required to perform in role
• Maintaining certification company certification for ISO45001 and 14001

About You

• Have a proven track record in Health, Safety and environmental Management Role
• A recognised H&S qualification such as NEBOSH diploma or equivalent
• Experience in a manufacturing environment is desirable.
• Ability to build relationships with people in all levels of the business
• Strong influencer
• Experience in ISO45001 and 14001 certifications is desirable

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
About Us
Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.
Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.
We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at hr@johnstonsofelgin.com.
Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.
Closing date: Friday 15th August 202

• Enhance the existing Safety management system to meet site-specific needs while ensuring compliance with relevant legislation
• Offer specialised expertise and support in Health & Safety to site personnel
• Collaborate with other sites to exchange best practices, and achieve the Company’s Health & Safety Policy objectives
• Investigate all incidents, implementing appropriate interventions in a time scale that matches the severity of the incident, and ensuring robust follow-up. Review each case identify root causes, and lessons learned are systematically captured and shared to prevent recurrence
• Assist in creating systems that encourage personal ownership of Safety
• Conduct Hazard and Operability Studies on critical processes and all new investments/significant changes
• Act as the owner of the Health & Safety Committee, providing clear direction for leaders
• Continuously develop the Health and Safety plan
• Advise and actively support the Elgin site in all legislative H&S matters
• Provide statistical reporting of H&S performance metrics to the site and relevant business leaders, identifying any trends and proposed corrective actions
• Identify and assess business risks and propose effective processes and controls to manage those risks to an acceptable level
• Monitor site works from a H&S perspective ensuring adherence to internal procedures at all times including (but not limited to) Permit to Work, Control of Contractors, Risk Assessment, Emergency Response, Management of Change, Incident Investigation, delivery of Projects/CDM etc
• Deliver H&S training (regulatory and awareness) in conjunction with training identified in the Competency Framework
• Drive continual improvement within the Health & Safety Framework/Combined Management System
• Co- ordinate the work of external regulators, auditors and/or third-party consultants governing effective and timely closure of any actions
• Agree H&S -related actions locally and with business leaders as appropriate and support/govern effective and timely closure
• Contribute and participate in the operational meetings and take an active part in problem solving activities
• Work collaboratively with peers and colleagues and apply learnings from identified training and development activities required to perform in role
• Maintaining certification company certification for ISO45001 and 1400