Strategic Health and Safety Professional

Job Title:

Health and Safety Manager

Job Description

This role is responsible for developing and implementing regional health and safety strategies that protect personnel, safeguard company assets, and support business growth.

The successful candidate will design forward-thinking, risk-based health and safety programs while ensuring regulatory compliance across jurisdictions. They will play a critical leadership role in overseeing health and safety governance for major business and infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with operational priorities and customer expectations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage region-wide health and safety programs aligned to business goals, values, and compliance obligations.
• Develop and promote a culture of proactive risk identification, prevention, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with global health and safety leaders to align regional initiatives with global strategies and frameworks.
• Provide expert health and safety support for major capital and operational projects across the region, from bid to delivery.
• Ensure safety management systems and controls are embedded into project lifecycle planning.
• Conduct safety reviews, audits, and readiness assessments to de-risk project delivery and meet customer and contractual obligations.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with regional legislation, industry standards, and client HSE requirements.
• Lead risk assessments, audits, incident investigations, and implement control measures.
• Maintain and review HSE registers and drive timely mitigation of identified risks.
• Act as the key health and safety point of contact for clients, regulators, and third-party contractors.
• Represent the organization at regulatory, industry, and client forums; facilitate external and internal audits.
• Provide reporting to internal and external stakeholders on health and safety metrics, incidents, improvements, and compliance outcomes.
• Develop and implement health and safety training programs tailored to field operations, project teams, and leadership.
• Lead initiatives to develop safety leaders and champions across the organisation.
• Ensure the business meets training obligations under safety legislation and client contracts, including first aid, fire warden, and mental health first aid coverage.
• Maintain regional emergency response plans and ensure they are tested and current.
• Coordinate serious incident response in collaboration with operations, HR, and legal teams.
• Lead or support incident investigations, corrective actions, and communication of learnings.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Comply with Quality Management System.
• Comply with Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures.
• Comply with Human Resources Procedures and security policies and procedures of relevant organizations.

Background and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a tertiary safety qualification.
• Demonstrated capacity for independent judgment on complex issues and a talent for conceptual thinking.
• Proven track record of creating organizational objectives and principles that achieve measurable results.
• Strong ability to persuade diverse stakeholders and drive high-level collaboration.
• Recognized internally as a subject matter expert, reflecting deep knowledge of relevant professional domains.

Personal Qualities

• Self-motivated with a passion for the role.
• Ability to work autonomously and at times under pressure.
• Strength of personality and ability to get things done within agreed timelines; meet deadlines.
• Willingness to travel to all work locations.

Condition of Employment

• Successful outcome of a National Police Check.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need. Specific goals and targets will be determined and agreed upon through the Annual Performance program with the designated Manager.

Worker Type

• Employee

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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