Safety, Health

**Position Summary**

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment - passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.

Based at our Rhodes Head Office we have an exciting opportunity for a Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Manager to support our Field Sales Team and Corporate site (Rhodes). As a dynamic and dedicated Health and Safety professional, you will be required to develop and drive site or business division initiatives leading to continuous improvement in line with the Nestlé Continuous Excellence mind-set of zero accidents and incidents.

**A day in the life...**

Reporting to the Head of Safety - Oceania, you will be part of a collaborative team passionate about ensuring a strong safety culture across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities are:

- Create a compelling understanding of the Nestlé SHE values and inspire stakeholders to excel in compliance & continuously improve
- Identify SHE priorities, current & future challenges, and opportunities for change at site level
- Guide implementation of the Safety, Health and Environmental Management System and other Group SHE Standards
- Develop and continuously improve site SHE programmes to deliver compliance and performance improvement
- Ensure the local health & safety management system is certified to ISO45001 and to ISO14001
- Provide training and coaching to managers and team leaders to help them take ownership, lead and manage SHE within their area of responsibility. Provide personal coaching and support to site Management Team
- Ensure compliance is regularly audited and performance assessed, and the results used to drive further improvement
- Support consultative forums across Field Sales and Corporate teams
- Engage with external stakeholders to support best practice solutions
- Injury management of Field Sales and Corporate team members

**What will make you successful...**

An overwhelming commitment to everyone going home safe everyday drives your passion for safety. You will have a strong demonstrated experience in Health and Safety management, policy and regulatory implementation. A strong negotiator, you strive to strengthen the sites safety culture and fostering preventative and proactive safety performance. You will have a real drive for SHE and continuous improvement. Experience taking ownership of SHE and supporting change through personal leadership
- Tertiary qualification or equivalent in Work Health & Safety
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role
- Experience in FMCG/Manufacturing or site-based environment or Allied Health will be favourably considered
- Detailed knowledge of the requirements of ISO 14001& ISO45001
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate effectively with different organisational levels
- Influenced behavioural change in a team/department
- Analysed complex problems to identify the causal factors
- Worked in cross-functional teams
- Translated policies & standards into practical action plans
- Coached individuals and teams in different environments
- Proactive approach to anticipate issues or improve current practices
- Experience with workers compensation and return to work programs

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia.

**Our Story**

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and collaborative environment, embracing innovation, and empowering people and teams to win.

We aim to hire respectful, curious, value driven and inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.

Be a force for good.