In house Health & Safety Solicitor
- Recruiter
- BCL Legal In House
- Location
- England, South Yorkshire, Sheffield
- Salary
- good benefits
- Posted
- 11 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 19 Jan 2017
- Ref
- TF/52209/MB
- Job Title
- Solicitor
- Practice Area
- Environmental, Health & Safety, Public Sector / Local Authority
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is a blue chip business, with a turnover in the region of £10 billion, a workforce numbering 160,000 individuals, and long and successful history servicing every household in the land.
The extensive, multidisciplinary, in house legal team is well established and integrated into the business, offering a dedicated support to their internal clients at all levels of the organisation.
A strategic review is driving the significant expansion of this legal team, and has created a number of new roles. These will be based in Sheffield to best service the business partners. If you live in Leeds, Manchester, Derby or Nottingham, you'll be interested to note there are significant opportunities to work from home.
As part of this team expansion they are looking to hire a Health & Safety skilled lawyer. You'll provide advice on environmental law and compliance and partner closely with key stakeholders such as the Group Safety, Group Property and Fleet / Logistics teams. You'll need to take a joined up approach to health and safety issues across the group (be that via training of stakeholders, guidance documents etc.), ultimately having a significant impact and driving business change. You'll need to have gained at least 2 years PQE to have gained the experience needed for this role.
This is an exciting expansion of a FTSE 100 legal team into Sheffield, offering high quality work, genuine career prospects, solid remuneration and benefits, and the chance to work in a highly complex and interesting business. For a full job specification and more information, please get in contact as soon as possible.
If you're interested in this role, please apply now or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us.
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BCL Legal is an equal opportunities employer.