HSE Advisor

The Role

As our Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Advisor, you’ll be the driving force behind creating a safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible workplace. You’ll combine technical expertise with a hands-on approach – guiding, supporting, and inspiring our teams to meet and exceed HSE standards. From shaping strategy and leading audits to engaging employees and driving cultural change, you’ll play a key role in ensuring compliance, minimising risk, and fostering continuous improvement. This is a role where your knowledge and influence will have a direct, positive impact on our people, our operations, and our future success.

Who are we?

Chart Industries is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment servicing multiple applications in the clean energy and industrial gas markets. Chart employees over 11,700 people based across 64 global manufacturing locations and 50+ service centres. Recognised for an innovative edge and expansive portfolio, Chart has a global leadership position in process technologies with products and services in applications such as hydrogen, carbon capture, energy recovery, nuclear, water treatment, mining, and LNG to name a few.

In 2023, Chart acquired Howden, a leading global engineering business. Since 1854, Howden has been at the forefront of developing engineering solutions for the needs of industrial processes. Today, Howden provide mission critical air and gas handling products to clients with our range of highly engineered compressors, blowers, fans, steam turbines and rotary heat exchangers. The strategic combination of Howden and Chart expands our offering of products and solutions across the Nexus of Clean™ -- clean power, clean water, clean food and clean industrials.

Together we are advancing a more sustainable future, by helping our customers to increase their environmental & functional efficiencies and decarbonise their operations. We have a strong corporate identity and a clear purpose - you will be a member of our team shaping the future of the company and participating in helping our customers tackle some of the planet's most pressing issues.

What will you do?

Operating System:

• Ensure Howden meets all current and future statutory HSE requirements.  Anticipate and review changes to legislation and incorporate any updates into the Howden HSE management system when required.
• Maintain our HSE management system to achieve continuous certification to the relevant international standards for the company (ISO14001, OHSAS18001/ISO45001) and supplier standards required by specific customers.
• Engage management and employee support to ensure our HSE management system is the way we work and underpins both the certification and continual improvement of this system.
• Lead and facilitate internal and external (customer and third party) audits and inspections.
• Plan and operate an on-going management system internal audit programme.
• Ensure non-conformances and corrective actions are addressed in an appropriate and timely manner.
• Support the supply chain function to maintain an effective HSE supplier approval and management process, including conduct of audits and inspections at supplier’s sites as required. 

Operational:

• Work collaboratively with managers to support their HSE requirements by providing appropriate technical advice to the required business areas. Ensure prompt action is taken to allow Howden to meet all its moral, legal, corporate and contractual obligations.  Identify any deficiencies and assist managers to address any gaps quickly.
• Ensure HSE risks across the business are identified and arrangements put in place to mitigate these risks as far as is reasonably practical. Ensure the required risk assessments are in place.
• Determine the required occupational health and environmental monitoring regimes and ensure these are effectively implemented and documented.
• Ensure that appropriate procedures for the reporting and investigation of accidents, incidents, and near misses are implemented and effectively utilised in order to promote organisational learning and prevent recurrence.
• Own and drive the administration of the Occupational Health Screening Programme – managing the supplier and the screening of our employees. 

What do you bring?

An ideal candidate would likely have the following profile:

• Qualified in health, safety and environmental management (NEBOSH, IOSH, IEMA) OR ability to prove qualification through experience with a passion for making workplaces safer and more sustainable.
• Confident in driving HSE improvements that make a real difference to people and performance.
• Skilled in spotting risks, finding solutions, and ensuring compliance with UK legislation and ISO standards.
• Hands-on experience leading audits, investigations, and improvement projects from start to finish.
• Strong communicator who can engage, influence, and inspire teams at every level.
• Analytical mindset – able to turn data into clear actions and measurable results.
• Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable challenging the status quo to improve culture
• Background in engineering, manufacturing, or similar technical environments an advantage.

We’ve put together some criteria that we think is important for this role, but don’t worry if your experience and expertise isn’t an exact match. If you feel that you can add value to our role and to Howden more broadly, we would welcome your application and be eager to learn more about you. 

Travel

The role is based on site in Peterborough. You may be required to travel to other Group facilities to support their requirements and work on Group initiatives, or to customer sites to support installation and commissioning activities. As such, this role may also require additional travel within the UK and internationally from time to time. 

Our Benefits Package...

This is a permanent position based at our office in Peterborough including an early finish on Friday. Our range of fantastic benefits includes:

• A flexible, hybrid working environment (expectation is 3 days in the office per week) 
• Generous holiday entitlement package totalling 33 days annual leave 
• Howden Pension Plan with a maximum employer contribution of 7% 
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental and adoption leave pay
• Free onsite parking 
• Healthcare cash plan 
• Group Life Assurance plan at 3x salary
• Group Income Protection plan
• Access to My Howden Benefits & Wellbeing Portal – Cycle2Work programme, range of discounts across various retailers, wealth of information to support health & wellbeing 
• Dedicated Help@Hand Service – free counselling, physiotherapy, financial support, medical second opinion, remote GP, personal training, nutrition consultations etc  
• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG ‘Bright Future’ initiatives – STEM ambassador & volunteering

Chart is an equal opportunities employer

The Company intention in respect of recruitment, selection and promotion is to appoint the most suitable candidate for each job regardless of that person’s race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age or disability.