Hse Manager

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**The Opportunity**:

- **Develop and drive the delivery of health, safety and environment (HSE) programs**:

- **An indefinite position, in a flexible and supportive environment**:

- **Lead and implement HSE projects to enable strategic outcomes**

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) at CSIRO engages with all levels of the organisation to deliver future-focussed and leading-edge initiatives to significantly improve CSIRO’s well-being and HSE culture. CSIRO has an exciting opportunity for a HSE Manager - Environment to join their passionate team.

As the HSE Manager - Environment, you will proactively partner with, coach, and positively influence CSIRO’s operational line management and HSE advisors to deliver HSE priorities aligned with broader organisational goals. You will provide tailored support and coordinate the consistent delivery of improving HSE outcomes and metrics, HSE activities, and initiatives for the Environment business unit across regions and the wider organisation. You’ll provide support with process safety risk identification and engage with a range of stakeholders across the organisation to develop solutions to complex HSE issues.

**Your duties will include**:

- Driving, strengthening and supporting the implementation of CSIRO’s HSE plan whilst helping to improve the HSE performance of the organisation through technical leadership, influence, and strong communication.
- Leading HSE and process safety risk identification, assessment, control and risk assurance processes to support research activities at the laboratory, field work, small vessel operations, and pilot plant scale activities.
- Driving the consistent delivery of CSIRO’s HSE activities across businesses and multiple operational sites to cultivate a consistent approach to HSE.
- Leveraging and harnessing proactive partnering relationships with key site leaders and people, HSE Executive Business Partners and external stakeholders through being a trusted advisor, listening, discussing and providing clear advice towards set goals.
- Developing knowledge and understanding of any unique HSE needs across the business or sector to drive the delivery of HSE priorities and initiatives, with a focus on consistent future-focussed and positive HSE practices becoming embedded across the organisation.
- Coaching to enable the growth and development of BU Directors, Site Leaders, staff and HSE team members in utilising best practice and leveraging capability and communities of practice to improve HSE Performance.
- Guiding, supporting and empowering HSE Advisors to develop solutions to complex and challenging HSE issues in partnership with relevant workgroups.
- Establishing, motivating and leading successful teams of people that can seamlessly work across multiple sites and business units to build both positive working relationships and influence positive, consistent HSE outcomes.
- Other duties as directed.

**Location**:Hobart, Canberra, Adelaide or Brisbane (Dutton Park)

**Salary**:AU$121k - AU$142k pa plus up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Indefinite, Full-time.

**Reference: 91801**

**To be considered you will need**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant HSE degree, engineering or risk management along with at least 5-10 years’ demonstrated experience in leading HSE management within large or complex organisations. Experience working with industry scale operations such as in mining, oil & gas, manufacturing or energy highly desired.
- Demonstrated experience in leading and facilitating HSE and process safety hazard and risk studies such as HAZID, HAZOP, Fault Trees, FMEA, hazardous area classification, chemical reaction hazards assessment,.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of HSE legislation and codes of practice as well as experience with the integration of process safety principles to support research activities in areas including safety in design, change management, adequate diversity and redundancy in the control measures.
- A significant record of influencing and effecting impactful HSE changes in team culture in alignment with the strategic direction of the organisation. Further, a strong track record of enabling positive organisational change, by innovating and adapting strategies, goals, and priorities, and driving culture change in health and safety.
- Demonstrated collaborative leadership skills and the ability to & lead remotely - utilising collective leadership skills to create connection across all teams within the HSE function and with other stakeholder teams.
- Demonstrated experience in collaboratively sharing and utilising team resources to provide a seamless and organisation