Job title: Environment, Health & Safety Assistant
Reports to: Facilities & EHS Manager
Location: Onsite at our Manchester HQ (Manchester Science Park)
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
About Yourgene Health:
Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science. Our mission to enable scientific advances to positively impact human health remains at the core of our focus. It drives and motivates us to develop class leading products and services to meet our customers’ needs.
Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. We have a comprehensive offering of non-invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) NGS workflows that have been built with labs in mind, and clinical prenatal screening services. The IONA® test was the pioneer, the first to market as an IVD product, changing the NIPT screening landscape back in 2015. Continuing to build on our expertise in cell-free DNA, our next generation size selection Ranger® Technology uses machine vision for superior precision. With multiple platforms for a range of clinical and research cfDNA sample preparation applications including NIPT, liquid biopsy, gene synthesis and long fragment recovery.
In addition, we offer a portfolio of screening products in reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious disease including screening assays for cystic fibrosis and DPYD genotyping to prevent chemotoxicity.
Yourgene Genomic Services provides a range of genetic analysis services for our clinical, research and pharma customers to support partners with DNA extractions, biobanking, genotyping, arrays and sequencing workflows (WES and WGS). Yourgene Genomic Services offers a Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Service, enabling clinics to run their own NIPT service for pregnant women with our prenatal screening tests and service laboratory based in Manchester.
Yourgene Health is part of the Novacyt group of companies and is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Singapore and Canada.
Our Culture:
Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and wellbeing initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.
Description of role:
We are looking to recruit a full-time and permanent Environment, Health & Safety Assistant based onsite our Manchester HQ located at Manchester Science Park. The EHS Assistant will report to our Facilities & EHS Manager and will assist in ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, health & Safety, Health Technical Memoranda (HTM’s), Codes of Practice etc. Contribute to and support the maintenance of systems for collation, interpretation and analysis of the company’s green agenda and sustainability goals. Meeting internal and external reporting requirements and deadlines. Carry out site based audits to assess performance in line with procedures, identifying corrective actions. Assist and advise best practices and review Risk Assessments to ensure compliance.
Key areas of responsibility:
- Assist with the duties placed on employees by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and all statutory duties appertaining to their work and processes.
- Maintain communication lines to all employees as the first point of contact for Health and Safety related issues.
- Assist with organising training and inductions for new starters.
- Take responsibility for the monitoring of the H&S reporting tools and systems.
- Attend H&S committee meetings.
- Attend Green Team meetings.
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
- Proven experience in an administrative role, ideally within an EHS, quality, or compliance-related field
- Excellent organisational and time management skills with a strong attention to detail
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- A proactive and self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- A good understanding of basic EHS principles and regulations
- Be willing to attend training courses to gain qualifications such as IOSH.
Closing Date:
Sunday 1st June, 2025
Equal opportunities:
Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives:
Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Yourgene Health and Novacyt Group employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written and signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Yourgene Health and the Novacyt Group of companies. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.
