John Bytheway

• Have regular meetings with key stakeholders to Identify potential risks and produce effective preventive measures ensuring the company's health and safety policies create a culture of safety throughout the organisation,
• Review the company policies for legal compliance.
• Create and keep up to date the site Local Safety Plan.
• Conduct incident investigations to identify the root cause and make any necessary adjustments to company procedures, equipment or training that would help prevent similar incidents happening again.
• Provide suitable site inductions for new staff, contractors and visitors ensuring all persons on site are fully aware of company health, safety and fire evacuation policies and have completed relevant documentation.
• Provide regular audits and inspections to ensure company policies and any legislative regulations are being complied with. Detail findings with stakeholders to ensure any issues are rectified or processes updated to improve future compliance.
• Create suitable risk assessments for tasks being carried out and ensure they are kept up to date.
• Ensure staff have adequate Health & Safety training to carry out their tasks safely and comply with company policies, training may include courses such as Behavioural Safety and Manual handling through to Life Jacket and Working at Height.
• Implement the companies Fire policy, ensure it is suitable and sufficient and complies with legislation, hold 6 monthly Fire drills and ensure weekly fire tests are carried out as well as weekly Fire extinguisher checks and daily Fire route and Fire exit checks.
• Ensure the Fire Grab Pack is current and has sufficient information for visiting emergency services, contact the local Fire service to ensure suitable information is displayed and easily identifiable.
• Coordinate with management to ensure there are sufficient First aiders to comply with legislation and that they have adequate ongoing training to allow them to provide assistance in a medical emergency.
• Monitored enforcement of health and safety rules, maintaining a safer workspace.
• Advise on suitable PPE and ensure it is available to staff members when required.

I was not sure whether to include this as I saw it as a hobby but I averaged around 20 hours a week on it over 6 years so it was a large part of my working life.

I do a lot of cycling both real and using virtual cycling apps, in 2016 a new app launched called RGT Cycling which I felt had the potential to be very good. I formed a community discussion group around it, for 2 years I continually provided feedback to the CEO regarding what they needed to work on to improve the app.

In 2018 I was taken on as their official Community manager working remotely on a part time basis working evenings and weekends as I saw fit. The role was varied and due to the limited size of the team I found myself being involved in many aspects of the business.

• Create support groups for various aspects of the apps focuses including technical support, racing (events) and GPX modelling.
• Manage those groups to ensure swift response to technical questions and filter issues to the relevant departments.
• Streamline general feedback to specific areas and prioritise comments to allow the development team in making swift adjustments to the app.
• Create surveys to highlight features we were developing and ensure a particular feature set would meet the requirements of the customer base when launched.
• Provide detailed feedback to various management level meetings on feature development for long term planning.
• Test new features before launch and liaise with the various departments to ensure the feature would meet the stated company and community requirements.
• Develop the community events program helping a large number of community event organisers with the promotion of their events.
• Create a wide number of event promotional designs using Canva.
• Develop GPX race courses for high value events including events for the UK, USA, Danish and Canadian e-sports cycling National Championships events.
• Support the marketing team in its campaigns.
• Monitor social media comments on various platforms offering support where required.

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Property development, refurbish properties to a high standard for either re-sale or customers needs.

• Design property layouts in 3D using Sketchup CAD software.

Refurbish properties including internal layout changes;

• Removing walls, ceilings and any other required items
• Installing new stud walls, ceilings, plastering, installing new kitchens, bathrooms, doors, woodwork, install laminate flooring, plumbing, general repairs and painting
• Liaising with electrical and gas contractors to install wiring/new boilers and heating systems.

Ensuring all services come in within a specific cost target.

Owned 5 vans with up to 10 staff offering household and commercial removals from Dorset countrywide.

• Developed new business opportunities for increased market reach, for example creating a quotation for relocating all of Portman building Society's staff and their personal belongings when their regional office moved from Bournemouth to Marlborough (70+ staff/families from varying size properties). Negotiating with the Purchasing team and winning the contract which was in excess of £85,000.
• Supervised staff to deliver top-quality service in alignment with company objectives.
• Optimised daily operations to achieve maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Established and successfully managed profitable business, demonstrating exceptional entrepreneurial skills and business acumen.
• Delivered high standards of service by training all staff members thoroughly.
• Maintained organisational compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.