We are seeking an experienced safety professional with strong project management skills to lead the Safe Control of Work (CoW) Program. This permanent role offers the opportunity to take ownership of a critical safety initiative that's already well-established and drive it through to successful embedding into business as usual operations across our clients geographically diverse business.
The immediate focus is to embed the program, after which you will continue to provide governance, ongoing support, and ensure the sustainability of this life-saving work across all regions
The Role
As the Safe Control of Work Project Lead, you will own and drive several National cross-functional programs supported by reference groups of specialists from Health and Safety, Engineering, and Operations. Your primary focus will be embedding standardised work practices that address high fatality risk exposure across our operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply structured project management methodologies to deliver against an agreed implementation plan
- Drive momentum and progress where activities have stalled
- Coordinate several cross-functional business risk teams across the country
- Provide ongoing governance and support once embedded to ensure sustainability
- Define minimum control standards for all business tasks and activities
- Establish standard ways of working across all geographic regions
- Ensure all supporting work are documented and accessible
- Partner with the enterprise training team to develop training and competency modules
- Eliminate siloed approaches and geographic variation in safety practices
- Ensure consistency across all regions as the business undergoes rapid change
- Complete outstanding risk assessments and control documentation
- Maintain governance frameworks throughout the transition period
- Process safety and manufacturing background with deep understanding of operational risk
- Strong understanding of task analysis and breaking work into defined activities
- Experience in high-risk operational environments (manufacturing, construction, or heavy industry)
- Proven project management capability with a track record of delivering complex safety programs to closure
- Logistics, construction, industrial or heavy manufacturing industry experience
- Experience developing and implementing control standards and safe systems of work
- Track record of driving standardisation across multiple sites or regions
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in operational settings
- Deep credibility in safety and operational risk management
- Results-oriented with the ability to maintain momentum
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all organizational levels
- Structured thinking with the ability to apply project discipline to safety outcomes
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, changing operational environments
This position is critical to ensuring our clients national workforce has consistent, clear safety standards that protect against high fatality risks. You will be directly contributing to saving lives by eliminating the dangerous variability that currently exists across their operations.
The program is in a strong position, and you will have the satisfaction of bringing an important initiative across the finish line while ensuring its long-term sustainability.
To Apply
If you are a safety professional who understands process safety and operational risk, and you have the project management capability to bring complex safety programs to successful closure, we want to hear from you.
This is an opportunity to leverage your safety expertise while applying strong project discipline to embed life-saving controls across our business.