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• Are you a data-driven professional seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity?
• Senior WHS Advisor Systems and Reporting
• Ongoing Full Time Opportunity
• Office location – Newcastle/Parramatta, other locations considered (2-3 days per week in an office)
• Clerk Grade 9/10 - Salary relative to experience and ranges from $125,693.00 to $138,510.00 + super

What’s in it for me?
Join our team for a fantastic culture with dynamic collaboration and genuine long-term career support. We offer flexibility in work arrangements, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritise work/life balance and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

The role
This pivotal role is responsible for developing and maintaining health, safety, and wellbeing data, systems, and processes to inform business groups of their risks and contributes to the elimination or reduction of incidents and hazards.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimise database systems, ensuring scalability, security, and performance to support data-driven decision-making.
• Develop and manage data pipelines by designing, implementing, and maintaining efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes across multiple platforms and data sources.
• Source, curate, and manage multiple information sets, ensuring data integrity, implementing data quality controls, and developing strategies for data cleaning and validation.
• Analyse, interpret, and report on data from multiple sources, identifying trends and insights to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Develop and maintain standard, ad hoc, and automated reports, leveraging appropriate reporting tools and recommending standardisation where applicable to improve efficiency.
• Support WHS projects and strategic initiatives by providing performance-based data insights, reporting, and technical guidance.
• Coordinate and facilitate consultative processes to capture, analyse, and benchmark performance against agreed targets and industry standards.
• Manage the daily administration and upkeep of customer-facing systems, such as the incident reporting platform, ensuring reliability, data accuracy, and user accessibility while providing technical support as needed.

This is an outstanding opportunity to make a significant impact on the safety and well-being of our employees.

What you will bring to the role

• Extensive experience in database management and data engineering, with a strong understanding of best practices in data architecture, ETL processes, and governance.
• Proficiency with data tools such as Alteryx, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI, with the ability to design and optimise data workflows.
• Experience working with database systems such as SQL Server and Snowflake, including writing complex queries, performance tuning, and data modelling.
• Demonstrated experience with and in-depth knowledge of various data analysis techniques to provide actionable insights.

What is an essential requirement:

• Tertiary qualifications in data science, data engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience in data management, analytics, or engineering.

For more information read the full Role Description: Senior WHS Advisor Systems and Reporting

About us
The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities.

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

Join us
If excited by the information above, we look forward to receiving your application, including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability for the role.

Applications close Wednesday 23rd April at 11:55pm.

Should you require further information about the role please contact Tim Cox, WHS Manager Systems and Reporting via [email protected].

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

Please note to be eligible to apply for this position you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, or hold a valid Australian working Visa for the duration of the appointment.

We encourage and support applications from people with disability. Please reach out to us to discuss any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed during the recruitment process, ensuring that you have every opportunity to showcase your talent, skills, and potential. Contact the Talent Team via [email protected] or (02) 63637676​ - HR Support, option 3, DPHI People Advisory, option 1 and reference 'Request an Adjustment - Job Title and Reference Number'.

Check out our Aboriginal applicants guide to assist with applying for the role or contact our Aboriginal Career pathways team for a yarn