Head of Occupational Safety

Salary + annual performance review/bonus
- Hybrid working available
- Melb/Bne/Syd/Adl based

**Delivering good energy starts from within**

It’s an exciting time to join Origin. Creating a great place to work means together we’re progressing our ambition to lead the energy transition through cleaner energy and customer solutions. We’re always looking for better ways to deliver for our customers - and for our people.

**About the role**

As Head of Occupational Safety, you are responsible for designing and setting the frameworks and standards for the company in the areas of workplace occupational personal safety. You’ll provide high-level, expert insights on strategic issues, guiding senior leadership or internal customers on critical decisions and manage the most complex, high-impact issues that require top-level expertise, often influencing major business or policy decisions.

The role is required to champion and drive consistency in HSE policies, procedures, and processes while allowing for necessary customisation based on each business unit's unique operational requirements.

**Key responsibilities**
- **Design and Maintain Occupational Safety Frameworks**: Develop, set, and maintain the company’s occupational safety frameworks and standards, ensuring they align with industry best practices, legislation, and regulatory requirements while supporting business unit needs.
- **Governance of Critical Controls and Risk Management**: Define, maintain, own, and govern discipline-specific critical controls as part of the Origin Risk Framework. Oversee risk management processes to ensure alignment and consistency across the company, strengthening controls to reduce risk and improve safety performance.
- **Provide Expert Strategic Guidance**: Consult and manage Origin's most complex safety issues across all BU's. Proactively use data available to identify insights and trends to influence decision making, policy and business processes.
- **Contract and Service Provider Management**: Establish, oversee and manage a panel of service providers to deliver against business requirements in the discipline of Occupational Safety. Ensure service providers are aligned with Origin’s safety objectives and risk management frameworks.
- **Lead Professional Development and Mentoring**: Champion the professional development of health and safety roles within the embedded business HSE teams, providing coaching, mentoring, and leadership to enhance team capabilities and ensure safety knowledge and best practices are embedded across the organisation.

**What will you bring?**
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in occupational health and safety management within the energy industry or a similar high-risk sector (e.g., utilities, oil and gas, chemical manufacturing) is highly preferred.
- Tertiary qualifications in the field of Occupational Health and Safety, or appropriate tertiary level qualifications in a relevant HSE or engineering discipline.
- Expertise in conducting complex risk assessments and implementing advanced controls for diverse or high-risk environments.
- High-level leadership skills with the ability to drive HSE culture, mentor teams and influence senior management on safety strategies.

**So, why join us?**
- Discounted Origin products benefits for employees, including Electrical, Gas and Internet offers
- Hybrid working environment, work up to 60% from home
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus + performance based reviews
- Origin 360 Electric Vehicles (EV) employee subscription offers a fantastic range of EVs, with flexible month-to-month plans and no lock-in contract.
- Free and confidential counselling for employees and family members.
- A great high energy team, that encourages interesting, rewarding, and engaging work

**Origin - Where good change happens**

At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.

**_Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing._**

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

**_Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future._