Safety Advisor

**Our organisation**

Gippsland Water takes pride in its place in our local community. We are a quality essential service and supports the health, safety and wellbeing of our community and staff. We are one of the critical stakeholders in the region, working towards a prosperous Gippsland.

We are growing, innovative and committed to ensuring that Gippsland Water remains a great place to work. We do this by:

- Offering a flexible and stimulating workplace and investing in our people to enable us to adapt to the changing needs of our region.
- Building the capability and culture of our people into a more highly skilled, professional, customer focused and efficient organisation.
- Building a diverse and inclusive organisation, where our people feel safe to bring their full and authentic self to work.

We also provide a range of employee benefits that will make your experience working at Gippsland Water both professionally and personally rewarding.

**The role**

As the Safety Advisor you’ll provide professional and timely advice on a wide range of safety matters across the business, with the goal of supporting and enhancing our positive safety culture. You’ll be the first point of contact for our people in relation to safety matters and take care of the coordination of our safety training, programs and initiatives.

You’ll also use your passion for health, safety and wellbeing and experience in engaging people to provide assurance through site inspections and audits in the field, promoting innovative thinking and the continuous improvement of organisational safety and wellbeing practices.

**What you’ll bring**
- Ability to provide first point of contact advice and support.
- Well-developed relationship building skills with a focus on achieving outcomes..
- Ability to positively influence strategic objectives across all organisational levels.
- Ability to develop and coach others in safety practices and processes.

**Freedom**

We offer a variety of flexible arrangements to suit our employees varied needs including purchased leave, flexible start and finish times, working from alternative locations, part time work and accrued days off. We understand that Gippsland Water and our customers benefit from enabling our employees to achieve balance in work and life.

**How to apply**

For enquiries relating to this position please contact **Sharon O’Reilly, Safety Lead, on 0457 360 013.**

If you are excited about this opportunity, please tell us in no more than 500 words why you believe your skills and experience are suited to this role, along with a copy of your current resume. We encourage applicants to provide a response to the key selection criteria.

**Please note that if you do not provide a statement, you may be excluded from being shortlisted for further progression in the recruitment process.**

Shortlisted applicants may be required to undertake a pre-employment medical and a National Police Check.