Carole Smith Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Due to the escalating number of accidents across the sites, I was approached by the HR Director to take over the new role of Heath and Safety Adviser, replacing the an officer role that had existed previously. The role.
• Responsible for 7 production, logistical and office-based sites across the UK and Ireland, looking after between 700 and 1000 staff.
• Proud to have reduced accidents across the company by 92% over a 6 year period, achieving a 66% reduction in year 1. o Successfully achieved by setting up procedures and policies that all staff could understand..
• Requested by HR to became a Legrand mentor, received bespoke training and have been part of a new project where I have mentored newer members of staff to aid their personal development and growth.
• Recently received training in mental-health first aid, as a naturally empathetic person this complements my skill set and I have been able to play an active role in destigmatising mental health issues across the.
• In 2018, Legrand was voted number 1 for Health and Safety across the organisation because of the improvements I have made to Health and Safety in the UK and Ireland. With sites in 80 countries worldwide this is a.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Recognised for my ability to empathise and support staff and practical, diplomatic advice and ability to think on my feet with real problems, I was promoted to Senior HR Officer and totally new experience, needed.
• Responsible for HR advising on employment law across the Manufacturing and Logistics Operators and Staff Managers.
• Negotiated the redundancy selection and packages of 400 staff from a Unionised-site over a 7 year period (2003 – 2011).
• During the one and only, I was commended for my consistent professional approach by the shop steward and consequently won the case; being deemed to have operated fairly throughout the process.
• Provided practical, no nonsense advise and ensured consistency in my approach, dealt with every individual honestly and equally.
• Advising Senior Managers and Directors in formal settings on current employment law to ensure compliance, creating new policies and procedures that were rolled out across the organisation during my tenure.

• Method study time and motion to establish the time to complete each operation of production
• Through various scientific studies, produced standard times of each operation (we had 7000 products and each product required between 7 and 10 operations) to enable us to introduce a measured day work scheme, allowing.
• For the studies to provide real results, attention to detail was essential as was the ability to produce professionally written and easy to run reports.
• The changes meant that the business made significant cost savings.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• customers order delivery dates by ensuring all production stages were calculated correctly through to completion.
• Worked through a number of time production methods and techniques from batch production to just-in-time.
• The results saw more profit for Legrand due to less storage space needed freeing up space for more production.
• Commenced with standard products but due to my work ethic and ability to solve problems I was given responsibilities for all production.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Received training across the business.

Nebosh, Level 3 General Certificate

Certificate In Personnel And Development