Workplace Health and Safety

**_Together we shape thriving communities, public spaces, places and economies._**
- **Be part of the new Bradfield city development**:

- **Ongoing Full-Time, 35 hour working week**:

- **Office location - Penrith and Bradfield, with hybrid working from home arrangements**:

- **Salary ranges from $106,025 to $117,363 + super (Clerk Grade 7/8)**

**What’s in it for me?**

Join the Bradfield Development Authority (BDA) for a **fantastic culture** with dynamic collaboration and **genuine long-term career support**. We offer **flexibility in work arrangements**, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritize **work/life balance **and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to **fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace** where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

Working for the BDA is a once-in-career opportunity to help shape the future of Western Sydney. The BDA is focused on driving jobs and housing in the region surrounding the new Western Sydney International Airport, by attracting private investment, and constructing the new Bradfield City Centre - the first new city to be built in 100 years.

**The role**

**Join Our Team as a WHS Advisor**

Are you passionate about workplace health and safety? The Bradfield Development Authority (BDA) is seeking a dedicated **Work Health & Safety Advisor** to play a key role in helping keep the BDA’s staff, visitors and tenants safe. In this role, you’ll use your specialist skills and dynamic personality to develop and implement corporate-level and building management-specific WHS systems, programs, and procedures.

As a WHS Advisor, you will be responsible for maintaining incident reporting procedures, developing appropriate programs, and providing training to achieve continuous improvement in safety risk management. You will also establish and maintain effective working relationships with BDA stakeholders, providing regular feedback on WHS procedures and guidelines.

In this role, you will contribute to promoting a safe workplace culture and environment by ensuring compliance with relevant legislative requirements and standards. You will provide timely specialist advice on WHS issues, manage the implementation and maintenance of WHS management processes, and conduct regular site audits to support best practice approaches across BDA.

If you are committed to enhancing workplace safety and have the expertise to drive organizational safety performance, we want to hear from you

For more information read the full Role Description**:Work Health & Safety Advisor**

**What You Will Bring to the Role**:

- Ability to balance competing demands and ensure high-risk matters are addressed within strict timeframes.
- Strong capability to promote a ‘safety first’ culture across BDA, building knowledge and understanding of compliance and reporting responsibilities.
- Experience in coordinating safety programs and annual WHS audit and inspection programs.
- Proficiency in using initiative and problem-solving to achieve results in line with operational guidelines and departmental policies.
- Demonstrated ability to act with integrity, upholding and promoting public sector values.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication to diverse audiences and explain complex concepts clearly.
- Commitment to delivering high-quality customer-focused services and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.

**What is an essential requirement**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Work Health and Safety or related discipline and/or relevant experience.
- Current driver’s license.
- Experience with the interpretation and implementation of relevant WHS related legislation and industry standards and an understanding of NSW WHS legislative framework

**About us**

The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities.

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

**Join us**

**_ A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months._