Health & Safety (H&S) Advisor

Health & Safety (H&S) Advisor

Your Manager: Regional Health & Safety Manager - Bottling & Blending

Your unique contribution

The Health & Safety Advisor will support through the engagement of employees and hands-on coaching building trust and strong relationships across your business area.

You will have the following main areas of responsibility:

• Support frontline teams through visible hands-on coaching to embed safe working practices and build confidence in managing day-to-day risks.
• Facilitate the engagement and empowerment of operational teams encouraging ownership of safety and enabling locally driven improvements.
• Build trust and influence behaviours by developing strong relationships with employees and line managers helping to shape a positive safety culture.
• Assist in the investigation of incidents focusing on learning and root cause analysis to drive meaningful preventative action.
• Provide operational teams with insight through the use of safety data and trends enabling informed risk-based decision-making.
• Apply health and safety policies standards and procedures in a way that aligns with the realities of distilling and bottling operations ensuring they add value while maintaining compliance.
• Support the effective management of contractors helping site teams ensure safe planning coordination and control of work and applying learnings from past experience.
• Promote a learning culture by sharing relevant lessons from across the wider business and encouraging the adoption of best practices.
• Champion a mindset that looks beyond compliance supporting continuous improvement and striving for industry-leading safety standards.
• Support the development testing and ongoing improvement of emergency response plans to ensure teams are prepared to respond effectively to site-specific scenarios.
• Contribute to wider business safety improvement initiatives by supporting the implementation of company-wide projects tools and campaigns that enhance safety performance across all sites.

Your blend of talent

This position could be right for you if you:

• Bring practical experience working in an operational / health and safety role within a manufacturing distilling or bottling environment.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and an understanding of how to apply it in a fast-paced operational setting.
• Able to build positive relationships on the shop floor and support a culture of openness learning and continual improvement.
• Comfortable communicating with and coaching colleagues across different functions using a calm approachable style.
• Experience in assisting with incident investigations and risk assessments with a focus on learning and practical improvement.
• Organised and able to manage routine responsibilities across multiple teams or work areas.

Who youll be working with

Internally youll collaborate across functions connecting with operations HR engineering building management security and more to make safety part of how we plan build and deliver the future of our business.

Externally you will collaborate with the Health and Safety Executive as well as other external regulatory bodies trade associations emergency services local authorities professional bodies and our vendors/ suppliers/contractors.

Our mix of benefits

For your health we offer private medical insurance income protection and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

Our lifestyle benefits include 25 days annual holiday (increasing with length of service up to 27) plus 11 public holidays your employee pension share incentive plan share ownership plan life assurance and more!

You can access lots of gifts & discounts including an allowance each year to spend on our brands in our staff shop our reward & recognition scheme and employee discounts from a range of high street retailers.

We have regular events in our very own office bar employee-run networks a culture of flexibility and trust and a variety of tools and resources to help you focus on your wellbeing and mental fitness.

Conviviality: the Pernod Ricard Way

We have our own way of doing things. We call it conviviality! Its our way of being and something unique you feel and experience when working for Pernod Ricard.

Were committed to conviviality and with this youll be Proud to Belong to our Pernod Ricard family. Youll be Empowered to Perform supported to succeed and acknowledged for the value you bring.

We combine all this with our Commitment to Care: we are unlocking the magic of human connection to transform our industry and make a positive impact on the world though our strong focus on sustainability and responsibility.

Were committed to diversity and inclusion

People are at the heart of everything we do at Pernod Ricard and are the foundation of our collective spirit as Créateurs de Convivialité.

We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our business and supply our teams we proactively foster a diverse work force and an inclusive culture an environment where we can truly be ourselves.

We will assess your application for this role based on your skills experiences and achievements not your gender age ethnic or educational background or any other such factors. Please feel free to leave these off your CV and application form if you so wish.

Similarly if you would like to discuss opportunities for flexible working or require accommodations or support to complete our application process please let us know.

Responsible drinking

As Créateurs de convivialité we want to turn social interactions into genuine and friendly experiences of sharing and wellbeing.

In our culture we want to create diverse teams in which our differences contribute to our success. Therefore all are welcome at Pernod Ricard regardless of your religious beliefs or personal choices on the consumption of alcohol.

In our business we work together with industry members civil society governments local authorities and UN bodies to promote responsible drinking.

Closing Date for Applications:

20th February 2026

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