Hseq Advisor

**About Us**:
The Eptec Group is Australasia’s leading corrosion mitigation and protection company specialising in all aspects of corrosion prevention. Our Total Asset Protection solutions and services include: Corrosion management; Blasting, painting and remediation of concrete and steel structures; Lining and waterproofing; Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Structural Strengthening; Cathodic Protection (CP); and Pipeline Electrical Hazard Assessments.

Eptec delivers across a diverse range of industry sectors, including naval, defence, marine, transport and infrastructure. Recent projects of the Eptec Group include Warragamba Dam Pipeline, Brisbane X-River Rail, Sydney Metro Trains, Old Murray Bridge, Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD’s), Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV’s) and the previous four Collins Class Submarine Full Cycle Dockings (FCD’s) in SA.

**About the role**:
We are currently on the lookout for a confident HSEQ Adviser to join our Defence Solutions team based out of our ASC South Office in Osborne, SA. You will support our operational teams and gain exposure and experience working across various ship projects.

In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that sound health, safety, environment, and quality practices are identified, documented, and fully aligned to the key business drivers. You will partner with the business, providing valuable input to site teams to ensure these practices are understood and implemented.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Influencing and negotiating with stakeholders to achieve cultural change, with the main objective to achieve a Zero Harm work environment, and participate and provide advice in Zero Harm Committee meetings.
- Guide employees to ensure that they report all incidents, injuries, illnesses, near misses, hazardous conditions, emergencies, etc., to their supervisor.
- Facilitate inductions, training, and competency assessments of employees and assist in assessing training needs of all personnel.
- Conduct regular toolbox meetings and associated methods of communication, ensuring safety talks and walks are a regular occurrence.
- Participate in safe workplace reviews, including hazard identification, assessment, control, and monitoring.
- Audit Zero Harm policies, systems, and standards, recommend improvements to management, and coordinate and develop process improvements and standard work methodologies to drive continuous improvement and process stability.
- Conduct incident management processes, including investigations and sustainable preventative and corrective action monitoring and implementation.
- Work with management and their teams to assist in identifying suitable work for injured employees.

**Key Skills and Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years’ practical experience in a similar role preferably gained from the Construction and/or Infrastructure or Defence sectors, having worked in a medium multi-divisional organisation.
- Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health & Safety.
- Return to Work experience and or Coordinator Certificate / experience and Internal Auditing and or Audit certification highly desirable.
- Experience working with (implementing & monitoring compliance) HSE management systems, in particular ISO9001/14001/45001, highly desirable.
- Experience in HSE system implementation, preparation for audits, in particular FSC accreditation, is highly desirable, along with experience working for an FSC certified company.
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment highly desirable, and incident investigation training (ICAM and or equivalent).
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the proven ability to negotiate, facilitate conflict resolution and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders.
- A current driver’s license.
- Australian Citizen

**Join a dynamic and diverse team