Join a 100+ year industry leader with a strong safety culture and a workforce of over 4,000 employees. This is an exciting opportunity to shape WHS strategy, coach leaders, and drive continuous improvement across a diverse and dynamic organisation.

Position Overview:

As the Senior Health and Safety Business Partner, you will partner with the Leaders and their teams to deliver health and safety strategic initiatives. This role will also liaise with and support the delivery of broader safety initiatives. Provide expertise in better practice health and safety to the operational teams and the assurance of health and safety practices. Coach the Health and Safety Partners to drive positive safety culture and support the management of Health and Safety risks effectively and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide partnering support and counsel to Executives, General Managers and Group GM Health and Safety on what is working well and emerging / systemic health and safety concerns across all divisions
• Provide health and safety leadership, expertise and coaching to the divisional leadership teams and Health and Safety Partners to uplift health and safety capability to support our operational leaders
• Implement the company’s health and safety strategy and improvement plan, in consultation and collaboration with the wider organisation
• Monitor and review the effectiveness of health and safety policies, programs and processes using agreed measures and provide feedback for improvements to policy/ process owners
• Builds strong relationships with operational leaders and teams, to provide strategic and day-to-day health and safety advice and coaching
• Provide health and safety subject matter expertise to implement, and review divisional health and safety plans, processes, and practices, and implement the work health and safety management system

Position Skills and Qualifications:

• Qualification in an OH&S field desirable
• Minimum 8 years’ experience delivering complex health and safety solutions to large private, listed, or government organisations, including significant experience in developing and implementing programmes to meet WHS regulatory requirements
• Influential at all levels, you can have courageous conversations with frontline leaders, whilst being a trusted peer to the Senior Leadership team
• Experienced in providing advice to the Senior Managers, supervisors, staff and clients on health and safety related matters
• Expertise in developing and implementing health and safety risk management frameworks, procedures, and tools
• Expertise in incident investigation and notifiable occurrence response
• Proven success in translating enterprise strategies into business initiative that deliver results
• Ability to coach and uplift in health and safety capability

As the Senior Health and Safety Business Partner in this organisation, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the employees and contribute to their commitment to safety excellence.

Competitive Salary + Generous Benefits

This role offers incredible flexibility through a hybrid work schedule and unparalleled growth, learning and development opportunities.

About Applying
At The Safe Step we embrace individuality and differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, faith and sexual orientation. We strive to provide a recruitment experience that’s fair, inclusive and accessible. We encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role.

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For specific questions about this role, please contact Nicola at [email protected]