Adviser - Project Risk and Safety Officer

6 months ago


Melbourne, Australia Heaton Rail Pty Ltd Full time

Play a key part in transforming Melbourne's railways
- Work across a variety of exciting infrastructure projects
- Iconic rail organisation with a large global footprint

We currently have a full-time 6-month contract position for an
**Advisor - Project Risk and Safety Officer **with our client who are a major rail company.

Your role will be to provide governance and ensure compliance with relevant risk and safety management systems for relocating a terminus in the Eastern suburbs.

Your day-to-day roles and responsibilities would include:

- Ensure stakeholders (including internal employees, contractors, suppliers etc.) are adhering to safety management and related systems.
- Provide guidance and advise in relation to the use of processes, tools, and methodologies to manage and demonstrate the management of risks.
- Advise, monitor and assist personnel in the development and delivery of specific risk assessments throughout a project’s lifecycle.
- Ensure projects adhere to the Enterprise Risk Management requirements including the Safety in Design Procedure.

**Key Skills and Experience**
- Understanding of and experience with risk management principles including SFAIRP
- Tertiary qualifications in Safety, Risk, Engineering or related disciplines would be beneficial
- Experience working in rail or related heavy industries would be beneficial (e.g. road, defence, oil & gas, mining, power, utilities, telco, construction, government)
- Understanding of the Rail Safety National Law (RSNL), Rail safety Act, and/or Electrical Safety Regulations would be highly regarded
- Experience with overhead power would be highly regarded
- Good verbal and written skills including the ability to interface with various internal and external stakeholders

**Why work with us**
- We are rail industry experts and work with some of Australia’s best rail companies
- Access to opportunities that aren’t usually advertised
- Work with multiple clients (Operators, Maintainers, Manufacturers, Consultancies etc.) and across various Projects and Project phases
- Work for us as an employee or under your own ABN - you choose
- Work from home (WFH / remotely), on site, or a mix depending on the Project and your requirements

**About Us**
Heaton Rail undertakes work both locally and internationally for some of the world’s best rail companies that make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day.

We help our clients do more, faster and better by connecting them with bright and passionate engineering, management and specialist talent in the fastest way possible.

At Heaton Rail, our people and talent network are truly our most important resource. As the famous old saying goes, “a railway is 95% people and 5% iron”.



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