Hse Advisor

**HSE Advisor (Northern)**:

- Bendigo, VIC, AU, 3550**About us**:
CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy own and operate the electricity distribution networks servicing 1.9 million customers located across 65% of Victoria. These customers include large numbers of households as well as commercial and industrial businesses, world class arts, health and sporting precincts, popular tourism regions and the biggest infrastructure projects in Victoria.

We provide reliable, safe, and affordable electricity and our businesses are independently rated as the best in the country for their efficiency. Sustaining this is all the more critical and challenging as greater electrification of homes, fleets and industries becomes a core strategy for reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.

We value inclusive leadership and teams and celebrate the results of succeeding together. But our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**About the role**:
The HSE Advisor provide visible and technical HSE support to the operational requirements of CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy.

This includes co-ordinating, implementing and maintaining our HSE systems to effectively and efficiently support the safe and sustainable delivery of work.

The role will assure that all business HSE and Work Practice systems, processes and requirements are implemented to a high quality and opportunities for continual improvement are optimised.

This position is designated to look after the Northern region of Victoria, which includes Bendigo, Shepparton, Kyneton, and Cobram, Echuca and Mildura.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Support and provide day-to-day technical and HSE advice to operations. Including input on key issues, critical risk controls, hazard reports, health and wellbeing
- Leads significant incident investigations to ensure quality incident management outcomes
- Engage leaders and employees in the implementation of HSE programmes and initiatives
- Plan and facilitate assurance activities. Including risk assessments, work practice compliance assessments, site inspections, audits, observations and interactions
- Ensure gaps and actions are discussed, recorded, addressed and closed out to a satisfactory level
- Provide direction on compliance requirements with HSE regulations, codes of practice and standards
- Identify industry leading practices to effectively reduce risk in the workplace
- Build and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders

**To succeed in the role you’ll have**:

- Demonstrated experience as an HSE professional within the energy industry (or other relevant industry, for example: utilities, construction, oil & gas, manufacturing)
- A technical background, including knowledge of OHS, Environment and duties of a PCBU through applicable legislation, acts, regulations, codes of practice and standards
- MS Excel and SAP skills would be advantageous
- Exposure to HSE specific reporting & analytics software programs
- Tertiary qualification in Health and Safety and/or Environment - or similar

**Your career with us**:
We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive, and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

Our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety, by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**What’s next?**
- If you require adjustments as part of the recruitment process to accommodate your needs, please don’t hesitate to discuss these with us.**Job Segment**:Sustainability, Embedded, ERP, SAP, Energy, Technology