Health & Safety Coordinator

What will you be doing?

Deliver all legislative safety reporting requirements, including managing the DB Cargo UK Accident Investigation database, Safe Insights platform entries, RIDDOR notifications, and the ORR Annual Report, ensuring data quality and timely submission. 

Oversee critical business processes such as regional driver documentation uploads, incident data management, and updates to the Competence Compliance Management System (CCMS), maintaining accuracy and completeness of HSSE data. 

Provide mentoring and support to system users, conduct regular data quality audits, and liaise with key stakeholders to enhance data integrity. 

Utilize advanced data analysis and reporting tools, including interactive PowerBI dashboards, to improve visibility of safety performance and support proactive safety initiatives. 

Manage medical and health surveillance reviews, translating findings into risk assessments and reasonable adjustments with HR collaboration. 

Provide basic health and safety advice, support procurement and property teams with safety assessments, administer company processes such as cab passes, and deliver general administration including secretariat duties for safety committees and audit follow-ups. 

Collaborate across teams to ensure compliance with all relevant safety standards, legislative deadlines, and continuous improvement towards higher safety maturity. 

What are we looking for? 

We are seeking a proactive Health & Safety professional with a solid understanding of safety principles, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance. 

The ideal candidate will have experience in Health & Safety, medicals, health surveillance, or occupational health, along with basic knowledge of RIDDOR. 

Strong data reporting skills are essential, as is proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, SharePoint, and MS Forms, with Power BI experience desirable. 

Additional strengths such as incident investigation, audit work, familiarity with HSE/ORR requirements, or knowledge of the heavy rail industry will be highly valued.  

NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent qualification is preferred.

What matters to you? 

Here at DB Cargo we offer range of benefits as part of your employment. These will include: 

We are offering a salary between £30,000 - £35,000 to depending on experience based on a 37 hour per week contract. 

Defined Contribution pension scheme with generous employer contribution – up to 10% employer contribution

Hybrid working between our locations and your home, this is mutually agreeable between the business and employee. For this role it would be 2-3 days per week depending on business needs. 

Bonus Scheme - non contractual dependant on business and personal performance

Free on-site parking 

EV charging at selected sites 

Health Cash Plan Available 

Cycle to work Scheme 

Manager led recognition programme for employees who live our values

Access to DB Learning world 

Annual pay reviews

We are dedicated to your continuous professional development. Depending on your role we have specialist training programs, apprenticeships, development plans, courses and qualifications we can support you through. 

Access to our employee benefits portal where you can take advantage of discounts for a variety of shops and services as well as accessing our wellbeing content

We take the health and wellbeing of all employees seriously and provide access to an Employee Assistance Programme