Be the trusted onsite safety partner for teams working in this well known retail organisation. We are looking for a hands-on, people-focused Safety Advisor who enjoys being out on site, working side-by-side with staff, and helping build a supportive and engaged safety culture.
About the role
This is a genuinely operational Health and Safety Advisor role, embedded within service delivery operations across Sydney.
Partnering closely with operational leaders, supervisors and frontline teams, you will play a key role.
You will provide hands on support to operations, influence how work is planned and performed in high risk environments, and contribute to the delivery of divisional safety and wellbeing priorities.
What you will be doing
- Partnering with operational leaders to manage and mitigate health, safety and wellbeing risks across high hazard operations
- Supporting the delivery of the enterprise and divisional safety and wellbeing strategy, frameworks and operational plans
- Providing hands on coaching to leaders and supervisors to build safety leadership capability and accountability
- Supporting the implementation, embedment and ongoing improvement of the safety and wellbeing management system
- Ensuring safe systems of work are implemented, monitored and applied in day to day operations
- Leading and supporting incident response, investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions
- Supporting change management activities associated with new systems, programs and safety initiatives
You are a credible, hands on safety professional who enjoys being visible in the operation and working alongside leaders and frontline teams.
You are comfortable having robust conversations, building trust with experienced leaders and long tenured workers, and operating effectively in a dynamic environment that requires sound judgement and calm decision making.
What you will bring
- Formal qualification in health and safety or a related discipline
- Practical experience in a safety and wellbeing role within a complex or high risk environment
- Strong working knowledge of safety and wellbeing management systems, risk management and WHS legislation
- Experience partnering effectively with operational and blue collar teams
- Strong capability in incident response, investigations and follow up actions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
- Highly developed organisation, prioritisation and problem solving skills
This is an opportunity to join a stable, industrial organisation where safety professionals are respected, supported and listened to.
You will work in a role with genuine operational exposure, influence and autonomy, with the ability to make a visible difference in a complex, high risk environments. The organisation invests in its people, values professional judgement, and offers long term career opportunities rather than a short term compliance role.
This is a hybrid role, with work from home days balanced with time out on various sites and head office office in Western Sydney. You will have travel reimbursement for visiting sites thoroughout Sydney Metro and some NSW locations.