Operational Safety Advisor


Company:	Meridian Business Support
Salary:	£35,000 to £40,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Salisbury, SP1 3TB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	15 Oct 2026
Closing date:	13 Nov 2026

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Summary

Salary: £40,000- £50,000 and great benefits

Location: Salisbury

Hours: 4.5-day working week (37.5 hrs)

Permanent | Full-time

Are you an experienced Health & Safety professional looking to take the next step within a high-hazard manufacturing environment?

We are recruiting for an Operational Safety Advisor to join an established manufacturing organisation in the Salisbury area. This is a hands-on role working closely with operational and manufacturing teams to identify hazards, reduce risk and promote a positive, proactive safety culture.

You will:

- Support operational teams with hazard identification and risk assessment

- Maintain and improve process risk assessments

- Investigate accidents, incidents and near misses, identifying root causes and corrective actions

- Develop, implement and maintain HSE policies and procedures

- Produce HSE reports and key performance indicators

- Support internal and external HSE audits

- Develop and deliver HSE training

- Support emergency planning and emergency arrangements

- Work with stakeholders and regulatory bodies

- Apply UK Health & Safety legislation including CoSHH, DSEAR, PUWER and Fire Safety

- Help drive continuous improvement and a positive safety culture across the operation

To be considered, you will ideally have:

- NEBOSH Certificate Level 3

- A minimum of 3 years' relevant HSE experience within a high-hazard process environment

- Experience conducting HSE audits

- Accident and incident investigation experience

- Strong working knowledge of UK HSE legislation

- Experience implementing HSE policies and legislation

- Experience supporting emergency planning

- Exposure to management systems certified to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001

- Good Microsoft Office skills

Interested? Apply today to find out more.

Please contact Gemma Lawrence at Meridian on 07876 250447 to apply and find out more or email glawrence@meridianbs.co.uk

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.

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