Whs Compliance Manager

**WHS Compliance Manager**
- **Join NEX, setting a new standard in quality, residential housing and building better futures**:

- **National role with a focus on managing vendor and subcontractor compliance**:

- **Norwest location I travel required**

The NEX Building Group is a diverse and expanding organisation with over 1,300 passionate employees. Our purpose is to build beautiful homes for Australians. Established in 1987 and continuing to evolve both organically and through acquisition, we are well positioned for growth and committed to achieving our vision of being Australia’s leading home building group. Our iconic brands include McDonald Jones, MOJO Homes, Weeks Homes, Wilson Homes, Arden Homes Brighton Homes and Supaloc Steel Frames.

From architecturally designed first homes and multi-residential projects to luxurious residences and investment properties, our brands strive to set the benchmark in the new home building industry while ensuring that our people, both customers and staff, are at the centre of everything we do along the way.

Building new homes and better futures for Australians is a true honour and so rewarding. Here are some other rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

**Our perks and benefits**
We believe that our employee community is a key strength of our organisation, and we aim to attract the best talent to achieve our strategic goal of being Australia’s leading residential builder and employer of choice in our sector. We are committed to taking care of our employees, that’s why we offer a bundle of benefits:

- Discount on building a home with any of our building brands (after qualifying period)
- Income protection insurance
- 100% funded by NEX. Covers up to 2 years at 75% of base salary in case of illness or injury
- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks for the primary carer and 4 weeks for secondary carer (we’re proud to be industry leading with this benefit)
- Employee discounts on gym memberships (Fitness Passport), motor vehicles (Mitsubishi), home appliances, energy, health insurance and more
- AIA Vitality health and wellbeing program
- A genuine focus on diversity and inclusion (we’re proud of our Women in Construction Program and annual Building Inclusivity Awards)
- Employee assistance program to support your mental, financial and physical wellbeing
- A huge catalogue of online learning and ongoing professional development programs
- NAWIC and HIA corporate membership
- Attractive remuneration
- And so much more

**About the opportunity**
You will provide leadership to our compliance team and manage vendor compliance for the group. Reporting to the National WHS Manager you will be an integral member of the group People, Culture and Safety (PSC) team. The key focus of this role is to facilitate and manage vendor compliance across the NEX Building Group portfolio. This incorporates onboarding new vendors, assisting vendors with compliance, consultation with vendors on compliance obligations and compliance dispute resolution. More specifically, you will:

- Provide leadership, support, and training to our compliance team members and oversee the successful onboarding of our subcontractors in line with safety standards
- Conduct periodic documented safety and compliance inspections including review of SWMS
- Monitor corrective activities to ensure risks are eliminated, isolated or minimised and maintain the various registers and reporting requirements of the WHS Management System
- Coordinate emergency preparedness requirements such as first aid, emergency wardens, emergency procedures and fire safety compliance at our corporate sites and display homes
- Coordinate a range of activities that reduce the risk of injury and discomfort to workers (test & tag/ergonomic checks)
- Assist with the development and execution of the WHS annual safety plan including facilitating WHS induction and training to improve safety awareness
- Provide training and guidance for WHS committees and coordinate their reporting requirements to ensure they have the skills to identify risks, operate and report effectively

**About you**
You will share a passion for our purpose and be aligned to our core values; better together, be accountable, people matter and think bigger. In addition, you will:

- Thorough understanding of WHS Act and Standards, including development and implementation of WHS management systems, policies and procedures
- Strong organisational, planning and coordination skills with an ability to meet deadlines
- Innovative and strategic thinking skills with the ability to see and suggest ways to continually improve, and a positive approach to continuous improvement
- Demonstrated leadership skills with a high level of communication, influencing, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Certificate IV in Workplace Health and Safety
- Experience working in a similar role, ideally with experience using LinkSafe
- We are keen to improve female (and other marginalised groups) represen