Health & Safety Consultant - Remote

**Work options**: Hybrid

We offer the opportunity to WFH 2-3 days per week

**The opportunity**

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow

Our Environment team is solving some of Australia’s biggest challenges. We are preserving and improving our built and natural environments, finding ways to use and re-use our resources, and building safe and future ready infrastructure to support places where communities can thrive.

As a result of a strong project pipeline, we are seeking a **Health & Safety Consultant** to join our team and contribute to our Melbourne-based and national projects. This position presents opportunities for working with diverse team of HSE consultants and excellent working conditions.

We support our valued clients across diverse industry and settings through a range of HSE consulting activities. Including, but not limited to:

- Contractor management assurance activities (both onsite and desktop) in construction, renewable energy, government & non-government, other high risk industry settings
- Management system evaluation, design, decluttering and implementation support aligned with WHS legislative and recognised best practice standards (ISO 45001, ISO 45003, ISO 14001, ISO 9001)
- Technical WHS advisory and consulting support

As a Health & Safety Consultant, you will work with and play a pivotal role in helping our clients anticipate, identify, effectively respond, and navigate contemporary health and safety landscape, variability of work and organisational settings. Achieving outcomes that seek to support effective health and safety outcomes for front line team members, organisations, their valued stakeholders and the broader community.

We work hybrid which means you will have the opportunity to work from home for up to three days per week when not required at site, ensuring a healthy work-life balance.

**What you’ll do**
- Contribute to a thriving team culture dedicated to deliver technical excellence and positive client outcomes
- Evaluate HSE plans, systems, onsite arrangements across a range of contexts and industry settings (such as construction, renewable energy, government, manufacturing, insurance and more)
- Conduct desktop and onsite contractor assurance reviews to support our clients in their desired approach to contractor safety management
- Work with diverse range of HSE consultants and partners to explore and deliver contemporary health and safety consulting and compliance solutions.
- Research, analyse, and recommend best practice HSE approaches and deliverables, tailored to your clients’ needs

**About you**

You are likely to have 5+ years of experience in the health and safety profession, looking to make a positive impact to health and safety for improved outcomes for front line workers, teams, our valued clients and communities.

You will ideally bring the following:

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess risks and propose effective solutions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders across all organisational levels
- Prior experience in performing onsite inspections and audits (ISO 45001, ISO 14001 Lead Auditor certification would be highly advantageous)
- Experience advising on contemporary approaches to H&S management, including psycho-social risk management
- Understanding or willingness to develop understanding of consulting and project lifecycles, and proactively building client relationships while upholding high service delivery standards
- Australian Driver's License
- Tertiary qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, or a Cert IV in WHS

The role will require the ability to travel for short periods and at times after-hours work (not extensive and suitably remunerated) where required for specific projects.

**About WSP**

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 weeks parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQIA+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

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