Compliance SHEQ Apprentice
Shredall SDS Group
Nottingham (NG6 8TQ)
Closes on Friday 7 November 2025
Posted on 2 October 2025
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Summary
Carbon-neutral Shredall SDS Group is growing, and we need an additional person to assist our established Compliance Team with SHEQ activities across the business. We will support you in completion of your SHE Apprenticeship and offer a range of training and experience in SHE and other recognised compliance standards. It’s an exciting time to join us!
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Safety, health and environment technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday-Friday, between 9am to 5pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 November 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As designated, you will:
- Support the Group Compliance Manager in a wide range of compliance activities, including SHE
- Assist with PPM across the business
- Review risk assessments and SSOWs
- Undertake site walks / inspections
- Generate related reports
- Maintain the Incident and Improvement Logs, including monitoring
- Assist with incident investigation
- Administer supplier and contractor management, including induction
- Assist with TBTs and inhouse awareness activities
- Administer the Employee Voice / Safety Groud
- Undertake internal auditing
- Attend and participate in compliance and operations meetings
- Administer SHE accreditations, such as SafeContractor
- Be allocated specific projects in support of your Apprenticeship
Where you'll work
Shredall SDS Group HQ
Joy House Brestwood Park Park Road Bestwood Village
Nottingham
NG6 8TQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PENSHAW VIEW TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Safety, health and environment technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Present and hold an audiences attention, for example when delivering SHE training, toolbox talks, inductions or presenting data or investigation findings to the workforce or management team. Show they can sell the SHE message, have personal impact, deal with challenge, reflect on personal performance, use appropriate language for the audience
- Assist the management team in the development, management, implementation and monitoring of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System by updating systems in line with changes in legislation or best practice, delivering training, coaching operational teams and undertaking workplace inspections
- Provide advice on the practical implementation of the companys SHE policies and processes applying generic industry guidance into the context of the workplace
- Identify the hazards and evaluate: workplace instructions that are relevant to the individual’s job; working practices in the individual’s job that may harm themselves or others’; aspects of the individual’s job that could harm themselves or others; which of the potentially harmful working practices and aspects of the individual’s work present the highest risks to themselves or others; how to deal with hazards in accordance with workplace instructions and legal requirements
- Support the practical application of the workplace instructions and suppliers or manufacturers instructions for the safe use of equipment, materials and products
- Support and assist in the implementation of SHE inspections and monitoring systems demonstrating the balance between enforcement and internal support
- Undertake and/or assist with the monitoring, analysis of and reporting of SHE performance
- Prepare and maintain records relating to safety, health and environmental matters that comply with legal and workplace requirements and are accessible to those who are authorised to use them. E.g. records associated with Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations, Lifting Operation and Lifting Equipment Regulations, Noise at Work Regulations, Hand Arm Vibration Regulations or Environmental Permitting Regulations
- Assist the management team in establishing, managing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders such as local authorities, Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Occupational Health, Occupational Hygienists and others as required and directed
- Research Safety, Health and Environmental Issues and best practices. Review updates of health and safety regulations e.g. changes to Construction, Design and Management Regulations or updates to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health along with workplace instructions, making sure that information is from reliable sources
- Assist and/or manage the investigation of accidents, incidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses and other incidents as directed
- Recognise where decisions have a financial cost and assisting to develop a budget
- Recognise situations where the activity will benefit from contributions and expertise of other internal departments such as HR, Finance, IT or Occupational Health
Training schedule
More training information
Safety, Health & Environment Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
- The apprenticeship delivery will take place monthly via remote sessions
- These sessions will be delivered on a 121 basis from a trainer, and you will have set assignments/tasks to complete after every delivery session
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
All Shredall SDS Group employees are required to complete BS 7858:2019 security screening, including DBS check, within 3 months of their start date. This is aligned to our standard 3-month probationary period.
About this employer
Shredall SDS Group is a thriving family-owned SME, offering a range of confidential waste management services (such as paper shredding and recycling), records management, and digital scanning services. With over 28 years of experience, we are committed to delivering compliant, sustainable, and secure services for organisations across the public and private sectors.
After this apprenticeship
Upon satisfactory completion of an apprenticeship, it is expected that the Apprentice will be offered a position within the Compliance Team as Compliance Apprentice – SHEQ.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PENSHAW VIEW TRAINING LIMITED
Kathryn Hewitt-Meadows
kathryn.hewitt-meadows@penshawview.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344628.
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Closes on Friday 7 November 2025
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