QHSE Advisor

Location: Dublin Airport and surrounding areas

Salary: €40,000 per annum approx (depending upon experience)

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

About Us: Swissport is a global leader in airport ground services and air cargo handling, dedicated to providing safe, efficient, and customer-focused services. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality, health, safety, and environmental (QHSE) management.

Role Overview: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced QHSE Advisor to join our team in Dublin. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing safety management policies and procedures locally, ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for all employees, and ensuring compliance with all current and future regulations and laws.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The following responsibilities are associated with the QHSE Support Advisors job role:

• Ensure implementation of safety management standards within the station.
• Establish and lead Station Monthly Safety Management Meetings and monthly Station Employee Health & Safety Committee Meetings.
• Report to the QHSE Regional Support Manager (Region).
• Deliver regular safety performance reports to the Station Management.
• Ensure all hazards, incidents are being reported and recorded accurately.
• Initiate, lead and carry out investigations on occurrences in line with corporate standards.
• Plan, prepare and conduct internal safety audits in conjunction with the QHSE Regional Audit and Compliance Manager at given intervals at the station and initiate / monitor corrective actions based on audit findings and occurrence investigations.
• Establish and maintain the station operational risk register.

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES 

Leading and Facilitating Change

• Communicates what is changing and why
• Involves others to develop a sound approach
• Implements Change

Applying Commercial Acumen

• Analyse key indicators
• Integrate and focusses on decision making
• Focuses on Customer

Coaching and Developing Others

• Clarifies performance and align high expectations
• Provides timely feedback
• Applies Coaching

Making Decisions

• Analyses Situation
• Develops Solution
• Implements Solution

Managing Performance for Success

• Sets ambitious but achievable performance goals
• Creates a performance enhancing environment
• Evaluates performance and takes action

Executing and Getting Results

• Maintains Focus
• Measures Progress and Outcomes
• Ensures and accepts accountability

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Achievement of the Lagging and Leading QSHE indicators
• Assurance and Compliance certifications
• Implementation of the Swissport Global Management System

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• experience and knowledge of aviation ground handling and/ or cargo operational experience is desirable not essential.
• You will have the ability to accept and embrace change as a constant and unpredictable feature of your working environment.
• Be a junior leader who sets the tone and leads by example.
• Can communicate clearly with your people to help them understand Swissport Western Europe direction.
• Be able to build positive and trusting relationships.
• Be open to different opinions and seek a collaborative approach.
• Embrace an ideas culture to enable teams to create an agile edge.
• Promote flexibility, adaptability and agility in order to enable contingency time.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency and the desire to improve the delivery of services and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Personal and professional integrity of the highest order
• Good organisational abilities, attention to detail, able to prioritise workloads and work effectively to deadlines in a fast-paced complex environment.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCES

• A sense of passion for improving QHSE standards and a commitment to continuous improvement
• Good oral and written communications and ability to communicate and motivate and drive standards at all levels
• Ability to persuade, gain support, obtain commitment, and mobilize a team to action
• Operational and general compliance orientation
• A relevant recognised health and safety qualification (NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent required) or must be able to demonstrate working towards.
• Member of IOSH is desirable.
• Understanding of food safety and hygiene, ideally possessing CIEH qualification or equivalent desirable, not essential.
• Minimum 1-year experience in safety management and/or management system
• Basic knowledge of country specific laws and industry regulations related to safety and safety management
• Basic use and knowledge of MS Office
• Personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness
• Commitment to continued professional development

CAREER PROGRESSION

• QHSE Station Support Manager/ QHSE Regional Support Manager