Join Victoria's largest council by population and one of Australia's fastest-growing municipalities and play a pivotal role in creating a safer, healthier and more resilient workplace. Serving a diverse community of more than 400,000 residents and over 36,000 businesses, the City of Casey offers the opportunity to lead enterprise-wide Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy and drive meaningful cultural change and capability uplift.
Based at our award-winning Bunjil Place headquarters, you will partner with leaders across the organisation to embed physical and psychological safety into everyday decision-making and deliver lasting benefits for our people, organisation and community.
The Opportunity:
Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will provide enterprise-wide leadership across health, safety, wellbeing, injury management and workers compensation. You will lead the continued uplift of safety governance, critical risk management, psychosocial safety and leadership accountability while establishing a high-performing Health, Safety & Wellbeing Centre of Excellence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the delivery of Casey's Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategy.
- Strengthening safety governance, assurance and compliance frameworks.
- Driving a proactive approach to critical risk management and psychosocial safety.
- Enhancing injury prevention, early intervention, return-to-work and workers compensation performance.
- Building safety leadership capability and embedding a strong, learning-focused safety culture.
- Using data and insights to improve safety outcomes and organisational resilience.
You are an accomplished safety leader who combines strategic thinking with practical execution. You have demonstrated experience leading workplace health and safety functions in complex organisations and can influence leaders at all levels to drive accountability and meaningful change.
You will bring:
- Expertise across health, safety and wellbeing governance, risk management, psychosocial safety and injury management.
- A track record of building safety culture and improving organisational risk maturity.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and leadership capability.
- The credibility, courage and judgement to lead complex conversations and deliver sustainable outcomes.
The City of Casey is Victoria's largest council by population and one of Australia's fastest-growing municipalities. Guided by our values of Dream Big, Empower Each Other and Make Our Community Proud, we’re committed to building the capability, leadership and systems needed to support our growing community and workforce.
You will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact, partnering with leaders across the organisation to strengthen safety culture, improve wellbeing outcomes and help shape the future of health, safety and wellbeing at Casey.
Lead the next chapter of Casey's Health, Safety & Wellbeing journey and help create a safer, healthier and more resilient future.