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Height Safety Instructor

We require a highly professional dynamic person to join our team as a ‘Height Safety Instructor’ training our clients at locations throughout the UK and overseas.

You will be intelligent and quick thinking, as the right person will have confidence in their ability to both think and talk on their feet with integrity and passion, whilst being comfortable with working at height.

Ideally your background has meant you have gone through some form of instructional techniques and presentation training, leading to you becoming a confident, articulate, a well spoken presenter, as such you enjoy being in front of groups making presentations.

Height safety experience is not critical, as you will go through our full in-house training program lasting 12 weeks. After successfully completing this process and passing the formal assessment, meaning you have achieved our grade as a instructor, you are released as a full chargeable instructor delivering basic training, over the next 12 months through ongoing continual development hopefully leading to achieving a senior instructor status.

We pride ourselves on having and making the very best instructors in the industry, as our courses are of the highest level, resulting 2 out of 7 instructors going through our 12 week process don’t make it and fail leaving the program.

So it is imperative you are honest about your competence and are excited about the challenge in becoming a Leading Edge instructor, recognised as the best of the very best in the industry.

You need to be located in Hampshire, as the majority of our training is in around Greater London and the South, with our office being located in Gosport, Hampshire.

Starting salary - £30,000 (During your 12wk training period)

Full Instructor salary - £35,000 (After successful passing training)

Senior instructor salary -£ TBA (After successful 1st year appraisal and status)

Status - Full time (Permanent) Monday to Friday (regular early starts required)

Holidays - 24 days annually plus Bank Holidays and Christmas factory shutdown

Package - Company vehicle, laptop, mobile, mobile broadband, clothing etc

Start date - Immediately

Please call 02392 503 129 for next available dates or email: Enquire

Industrial Sewing Machinist

Full & Part-time positions

Due to increase in business and growing demand we require full and part-time industrial sewing machinists to join our production team at our factory in Gosport, Hampshire.

We are looking for people with very good attention to detail, high work standards, and must be English speaking as your first language, with the work being highly safety critical as communicating and following instructions is vital.

You will need to be skilled having experience using light and heavy industrial manual sewing machines. The job also requires the person to be involved in light industrial work which will be mixed in duties, in the production of safety equipment in a clean environment.

Salary: £7.50 per hour (paid monthly)

Hours: 8am to 4.30pm (Monday to Friday) FULL TIME
8am to 12.30pm or 12pm to 4.30pm (Monday to Friday) PART TIME

Holidays: 24 days annually plus Bank Holidays and Christmas factory shutdown

Please call 02392 503 129 for next available dates or email: Enquire

Health and Safety / Access & Plant Instructors

Full time / Freelance / Self-employed

Due to the growing requirement for our training across Health & Safety / Access & Plant. We are looking for a ‘Full-time / Freelance & Self-employed’ qualified professional instructors. You currently deliver accredited training across any of the following subjects (but not limited to) Health and Safety / Access & Plant. You already hold full instructor accreditation in one or all of these areas: NPORS / CPCS / CITB / CIEH / PASMA / IPAF / NEBOSH / IOSH.

We require instructors located regionally or ideally willing to work nationally. The courses we have a high demand for is PASMA tower courses / Abrasive Wheel / IPAF powered access courses. In return we can offer consistent work ongoing long-term.

Customer Care Service

As a Leading Edge customer, we want to ensure that you are completely satisfied with your Leading Edge experience.

So we've thought about what we can do to make a difference for you and provide peace of mind for you when it comes to complete height safety.  With your safety in mind we have developed a 'Height Safety Service Pack'.

This allows us to provide complete support to you through our care package at site level. Not only this but our care package comes at absolutely no extra cost to you, it’s all part of the service.

We provide the following five main areas of assistance: site audits, toolbox training, on-site consultancy, formal equipment inspection and licence card implementation to ensure you get the most out of your experience and the highest quality safety and customer care.

Vision

Our vision is to continually improve your safety in the workplace and set whole new standards. We aim to develop a deeper understanding of our customers needs and offer the very best services in guidance, training and equipment for today’s modern work place.

As a company we constantly strive to provide unrivalled technical competency and expertise using continuous organisational development coupled with a fantastic passion for delivering safer working environments.

We believe we have raised the bar in terms of education and understanding of safety in the workplace.

This passion and dedication in the provision of safety is thoroughly embedded in our business culture. Every single employee of Leading Edge undergoes thorough on-site training to ensure they fully understand our customer requirements, the service standards we provide and how our services and equipment are used in practice.

Employment Opportunities

Sales Manager

Leading Edge training is not only recognised industry wide, but Leading Edge courses and equipment have become a mandatory requirement for many blue chip companies.

Our extensive in-house height safety knowledge, expertise and unique customer tailored solutions make Leading Edge a powerful addition to the safety industry.

We work closely with clients on a diverse range of projects which allow us to develop training and products that have been specifically tailored to meet individual application requirements. We have a strong base in the UK market today and are also currently developing our business internationally. We supply products and training internationally to Europe, Asia and the USA and are looking forward to further expanding our company.

More than 5000 people every single year complete our Leading Edge training to not only gain certification but also competence, confidence and peace of mind in their work activities. Around 90% of all our new business is referred from existing satisfied customers, which shows how happy our customers are with the training they receive. We know how important all our customers are and equally how powerful their recommendation are in building our reputation.

With collectively more than 50 years experience in safety we have strived to not only provide the best training but also to further develop new ideas, technology, techniques and repeatedly set up new standards that put us above the competition.

Due to the growing requirement for our training and products we are looking for a Sales Manager to spearhead this growth.

Applicant Criteria

Ideally you will possess 5+ years sales experience in ‘Height Safety’ at either manufacturer or reseller level.

You will be articulate, business-savvy and generally possess good understanding of business to business success and development.

You will be comfortable to operate at board level commercially, through to site. Having an excellent sales history and display a superb combination of both account management and new business skills.

You will be driven by success and promoting the company brand in the market.

We are ideally looking for someone ‘plugged in’, who can hit the ground running, that currently have established height safety customers and contacts. You are best described as a hungry hard worker who is not afraid to roll up the sleeves and get your hands dirty.

Above all else the right person will have confidence in their ability technically and can both think and talk quick on their feet professionally.

The salary package consists of a basic salary between £30,000 - £40,000 dependent commercial experience, and height safety background. Bonuses, expensed company car, laptop and mobile phone, smart casual clothing are all provided with this role.